The Central Coastline Portion playoffs are on, but not for Los Altos and Mountain View highs.


Encouraged by new improvements in the California Division of Public Well being direction with regards to youth athletics, the CCS Government Committee not too long ago voted to shift forward with segment playoffs in all crew sporting activities for CCS Time 2.

Just days later, the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Board of Supervisors – which includes the principals of Los Altos, Mountain View and 12 other community schools in the county – unanimously voted versus letting SCVAL athletes to participate.

SCVAL Commissioner Brad Metheany declined to comment on the choice – created at a exclusive assembly held April 29 – when contacted by the City Crier very last week.

The board had tabled the playoff discussion at its former 3 meetings. Some members required to wait and see what the CCS resolved – the part accredited team playoffs April 26 – and a several expressed fears about getting their faculties contend beyond graduation.

“It’s disappointing, but it is out of our manage,” Mountain See Substantial baseball mentor Kris Mims claimed. “We’re upset, but we have to move on.”

Mountain See Superior athletic director Shelley Smith acknowledged that he has obtained e-mails from moms and dads unsatisfied with the league’s choice, but not that quite a few.

“It’s been restricted,” he claimed Thursday, “and I believe that is since we did a pretty superior work of remaining proactive – we communicated with our coaches, and they communicated with the moms and dads about what was heading on.”

As quickly as the SCVAL chose to go its individual way early this 12 months – forgoing the section’s two-time schedule for a 3-period slate that granted each and every sport six months of competitiveness – Smith claimed it was rather obvious that the playoffs were off the desk.

“We knew we had been likely not likely to be ready to that,” he reported. “But at the time, we created the final decision for the right good reasons, and we’re having the correct outcomes. It is an opportunity to get everybody on the industry and perform.”

SCVAL Period 3 sporting activities will finish proper around the time CCS Season 2 concludes at the end of the month, but athletics played in the league’s earlier seasons don’t sync up with the playoffs.

“The timing is awkward for a activity like soccer that finished in April,” Smith stated. “The playoffs do not start right until Could 22 – that’s a entire month hold off.”

The SCVAL’s determination leaves only two nearby schools qualified for postseason perform: St. Francis and Pinewood. The Lancers and Panthers engage in in the West Catholic Athletic League and West Bay Athletic League, respectively.

The CCS designs to have workforce-activity playoffs for basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, crew tennis and boys volleyball. According to the section’s website, playoffs would start as early as May perhaps 22 (soccer) and operate as late as June 19 (baseball).

The CCS also declared in a push launch that it has been given permission at the county degree to move ahead with the boys and ladies golf championships at Laguna Seca Golfing Ranch. Individuals occasions are scheduled June 1 and 8 for the boys and June 9 for the women.

A number of additional athletics may perhaps quickly be extra to the playoff docket. According to the launch, part officials “are actively functioning with the 6 counties that compose the CCS with regards to particular person sports that are outdoors. Their approval is expected prior to these situations happening.”

These sports activities contain swimming and diving, and monitor and area. If approved, the swim meet would be Might 27-29 at Independence Large the keep track of semifinals and finals would be June 12 and 19, respectively, at a internet site to be established.

Owing to the CDPH advice, the CCS Govt Committee determined that individual tennis, wrestling, badminton and gymnastics championships will not materialize this spring.

“While it was the intention of the CCS to keep these events this yr, the myriad of obstructions has presented itself to be far too excellent for these situations to take place,” the release said.

Those people collaborating in sporting activities with playoffs will not advance past CCS. The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs the state’s large university sporting activities, declared April 28 that only Southern California teams will have regional championships.

“With only two of the 6 Northern California area sections offering championships at this time (Central Coast Segment and Oakland Part), it is not feasible for the State CIF to conduct Northern California Regional Championships,” CIF officials described in a press launch.