Saxface (Formerly Melanie)got me to thinking about hawaii. I have never been there, but my wife says we will someday where I like it or not… anyway I was wondering about high school sports. I have no concept of how big each of the islands are, but is it common to have a high school team play a high school team from another island? or does that only happen during the State Championships?
Just wondering
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There are a total of five Interscholastic Leagues in Hawaii. One on Kauai. One on Maui. One on Hawaii (called the Big Island Interscholastic League or BIIL). And two on Oahu (the Oahu IL and the Honolulu IL). The only official opportunity for inter-island play is during the state championships.
I went to high school on the Big Island, and yes I think until championships there are no real inter-island games. The farthest trips, probably, were when my soccer team (Ugh, Pahoa, SE of Hilo) would go play Kona on the other side of the island, a good 3 or 4 hour drive in a bus. The private schools (Catholic school and prep academy) also played in the same league as public schools-- I’m not sure whether that’s normal on the mainland.
As long as we’re on the general subject, how does it work in rural states? Living in the east, it’s never been more than about an hour’s bus ride to about 30 schools. That means that games can occur on weeknights, the players can (theoretically) go to class that day and that a bunch of fans can go to away games and get their cars tipped over.
I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
Rural Oklahoma I can answer about. My high school had a grad class of about 30 people my sr. year. We were divided up in to Districts and Classes like the rest of the state. (Districts=Geography, Classes=School Size) Only one high school in the whole town, we would go to other towns in our class/district to play against or sometimes scrimmage a nearby JV team that was in a higher class. Their JV teams would still kick our asses. The farthest away was a hundred miles or so, usually within 60 miles. Hey, it was highway all the way. Too bad it was two lane! One tractor or other farm implement moving to a different section of land could really slow you down.
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Well, I’m not really that rural (Far Southwest Chicago Suburbs) but we did have some travelling to do. Now there are probably 50 high schools in 30 minutes of my school, but we have 6 classes and only about 6-8 or so are in any other’s class. You’ll play a couple of interclass games a year, and consider that the private schools are in a seperate conference. I travelled everywhere from 15 minutes to an hour one way to conference matchups, and on occasion one or twice in non-conference play we’d go downstate up to 2 hrs away. Usually anything over 20 minutes you can assume that its a all home crowd except for the parents of the travelling team. I know that in very rural sections of the state the teams are comprised of 2-3 high schools combined and they play fewer non-conference games because of the travel, but they likely average closer to an hour average travel time compared to my 30 minute average.
Rural states handle the distance with long-ass bus rides. rural districts commonly go 60-100 miles for regular season games. I grew up in Marana Arizona just Northwest of Tucson and IIRC we’d go as far as Nogales 75 miles away.
Come, let us go, I’ve a cask of amontillado.
We would just have games on weekends and Wednesday afternoons, when school was shorter anyway (don’t ask me why, but we would get out an hour earlier), so jocks could miss the second half day of classes for a trip. I think long trips were planned by the district for weekends, so some teams had mostly weekend games.
Yes, the “crowd” was usually the home team people.
The only thing I know about Hawaii is that the people who live there like to come to Vegas and bring their exotic Hawaiian respiratory viruses with which they infect innocent craps dealers who haven’t done anything to them.