southern section division II AA & IIA placements for 2000

With the impending start of the "real" high school season, and league competition for playoffs, there are a lot of misconceptions about which divisions each school in the Southern Section is really in. While league competition features teams from different divisions often playing against each other, when it comes time for the playoffs, schools will compete against teams which match their own enrollment divisions (unless they choose to move up). The CIF Southern Section put out the preliminary playoff division lists in late November, 1999, before the "move up" date (December 15 was the last day when schools could opt to "move-up" from their regular enrollment division, or elect to stay in their enrollment division). The list we've posted below is the "early" list (the CIF has not yet released the final list to the media, although they will shortly) so it's possible that some of these schools listed will in fact move up into a higher enrollment division, but we don't really see that happening with many of them. We do know that Artesia, which is really II-A, has, for the past few years, opted to "move up" to D-IAA, and we know of no reason why that won't happpen again this year. Where a school has elected to move up, we've indicated it with an asterisk (*), and indicated the division. So far this year, there's only two teams we know of for certain that have elected to move up: Artesia (II-A to I-AA) and Serra (V-AA to IV-A). Lots of other schools have moved up or down but that's been because of different enrollment figures than the ones used for last season. Oh, and it's important to note that when a school moves up, they have to go to the higher end of the new division. In other words, a jump from II-A to I, requires that the moving school play in I-AA not I-A.

In any event, we'll post these lists up alphabetically, rather than by enrollment figures (the CIF sent us two different lists, but alphabetical is the only really useful one for our purposes). If we miss a school, or there's one missing from the list, well, blame the CIF Southern Section office not us. We don't make 'em up, we just report them Here's the list for all of Division II:

Division II-AA	Enrollment		Division II-A	Enrollment
Agoura Bellflower Brea Olinda Buena Park Canyon-Anaheim Cathedral City Chapparal Compton Cyppress Dominguez El Modena El Monte Foothill Gahr Garden Grove Hemet Inglewood La Quinta--La Quinta Sa Serna Littlerock Los Amigos Moorpark Newpoort Harbor Norco Norte Vista Norwalk Paloma Valley Pasadena Paso Robles Ramona Redondo Union Rim of the World San Bernardino Santa Margarita Santiago--Garden Grove Soonora South Torrance Temescal Canyon Torrance Tustin Valencia--Placentia West Torrance West Valley Westlake Whittier	1369 1340 1353 1319 1338 1420 1399 1440 1481 1433 1329 1383 1449 1493 1410 1484 1441 1375 1481 1365 1481 1393 1494 1378 1420 1309 1383 1489 1375 1412 1357 1346 1479 1308 1410 1312 1399 1429 1350 1409 1360 1405 1335 1444 1319		Antelope Valley Artesia* (move to D-IAA) Atascadero Barstow Bishop Amat Bloomington Bolsa Grande Bonita Brawley Union Burroughs-Burbank Burroughs-Ridgecrest Calabasas Central Union Charter Oak Culver City Doos Pueblos Elsinore Fullerton Glenn Hespperia La Habra La Puente Laguna Hills Lompoc Los Altos Magnolia Mayfair Mountain View Muir Newbury Park Ocean View Pacifica Palm Desert Pioneer Rancho Alamitos Rosemead San Luis Obispo Savanna Serrano Servite Sierra Vista South Hills Southwest Temple City Wilson--Hacienda Heights	1236 1290 1287 1265 1193 1145 1159 1203 1193 1298 1144 1177 1154 1270 1204 1205 1296 1187 1254 1212 1272 1181 1257 1176 1282 1217 1157 1254 1163 1220 1170 1242 1286 1134 1138 1300 1203 1301 1291 1132 1303 1153 1211 1252 1231