- Jan 29, 2011
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Yea, Virginia is the same way. No small/large or all girl/coed, just A - 6A with a max of 20 athletes for everyone.
I was a VA high school cheerleader personally victimized by this.
My school was a 6A school for years because of our historic school size and the other two schools in our county were honest to goodness 6A. We could compete in some sports like Basketball bc it fields less people and it was a popular sport.
Any other team with more than 10 people? Forget about it. For cheer we competed with 12 of the best just so we could get the majority score. But we were competing against schools with solid jv and Varsity teams, with girls who did some sort of outside tumbling/cheer. We only got 25 girls to try out.
When they restructured my senior year and we became a 5A competing against equals, our sports teams across the board got better. For cheer we is a team to watch even with 12 on the floor. Ironically, we are about to be the juggernaut school in a few years due to enrollment and will most likley go back to 6A.