Stop the Press: Lhsaa
In order to make it easier for member schools to comply with the new rule in place, the LHSAA w. The LHSAA is very pleased to announce its new partnership with Nike, and very excited about the benefits it will provide to LHSAA member schools. Do not miss any of the action as the ground breaking new partnership between the LHSAA and CST launches this Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 pm with the eleventh annual LHSAA / State Farm Prep Football Pairings Show.
The Louisiana High School Athletic Association today announced a pilot program to provide access to the STAR program - a first-of-its kind, online sportsmanship training tool - to student-athletes, coaches, parents, and officials across the state in 2008-0 The award will be given to LHSAA member schools that best exemplify sportsmanship across all athletic conduct on and off the field. Commissioner Kenneth Henderson and the LHSAA have outlined specific criteria that will qualify Louisiana LHSAA member schools for consideration for this award. The LHSAA announces 10 premier broadcast for the 2008-09 high school sports year. Beginning with the 2006-07 school year all full time college students desiring to coach any LHSAA sport must be CECP certified. The LHSAA’s Coaches Education and Certification Program was implemented during the 1998-99 school year so that non-faculty individuals could be certified to serve as head and/or assistant coaches at LHSAA member high schools.
All registration done the week of the CECP class will incur an additional $25 “week of” fee. Registration forms must be completed by the non-faculty individual, signed by an LHSAA principal and returned to the LHSAA office along with the $125 enrollment fee no later than one week prior to the class date. Schools must list all non-faculty coaches on the current year’s Non-Faculty Coaches Roster Form, which is due in the LHSAA office by October 15th.
“High school programs have supplied the fundamentals for players on almost every NFL roster over the years. The LHSAA is proud to partner with Piccadilly Restaurants who shares our commitment to promote and support the activities of our 400 member schools and 85,000 student athletes,” said LHSAA Commissioner Kenny Henderson.
Erin Coogan, who has designed, maintained, and overseen the site since its launch, is the architect of the new site.The website plans on keeping the focus on administrative and informational material for the principals and coaches of the LHSAA and its 400 member schools. An official announcement from the LHSAA has been sent to each member school.
The LHSAA and Nola.com have partnered to present a high impact interactive prep sports portal for Louisiana.
Late registration must be called in by an LHSAA principal and will be accepted on a first come first serve basis if there is room available.
Watch the on demand replay of the LHSAA Game of the Week from Monroe, Louisiana.
Visit Nola.com or LouisianaPrepSports.com to view all the archived LHSAA Games of the Week.
Operating Fund : The money we use to keep LHSAA going through mailings and other activities, such as the costs of organizing Reunions.
Paparazzo Presents photos from the 2007 LHSAA state meet held at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, Louisiana. These come from Saturday, February 12, 200
Photos from three other 2005 LHSAA State Wrestling Tournament matches can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paparazzopresents.
According to a letter sent to Byrd principal Jerry Badgley, Wade, a physical education teacher at Caddo Middle Magnet, violated LHSAA rules by talking with CMMS students about Byrd prior to them visiting with a principal or counselor at Byrd. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association, more commonly known as the LHSAA, is the agency which regulates and promotes the interscholastic athletic competitions of all high schools in the state of Louisiana.
Public schools around the state accused the Archdiocese of New Orleans of assembling the Lady Raiders as an elite girls team, drafting top athletes from storm-damaged girls schools around the Greater New Orleans area. By the 2006 school year, most of the affected LHSAA schools were able to compete under their own school teams.
LHSAA member schools include public, private, and parochial schools throughout the state. As of 1996, LHSAA included 410 member schools and an annual certification of approximately 70,000 student athletes each year.
LHSAA was founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on October 192 It is governed by a commissioner and an executive committee, with representatives from each of the association’s class divisions.
Chauvin is best known for his 25 years as assistant commissioner with the LHSAA and is set to retire late this year. Anderson, the former principal of LaGrange in Lake Charles, served as president of the LHSAA starting in 1998 and was part of the executive committee beginning in 199
Mahaffey, a 1951 Sicily Island High graduate, spent 46 years as a high school official, calling 4,500 games in Louisiana, including 37 in the LHSAA’s boys and girls state tournaments.
