District Scheduling Approved

The Minnesota State High School League adopts District Football scheduling plan for 2015 and beyond.

Owatonna will continue to play most of the teams from the Big Nine Conference in the newly named "Big Southeast" District. The district will include the current conference teams plus new teams Red Wing and Northfield, as well as New Prague. Albert Lea will go to a different district.

• Austin High School
• Faribault High School
• Mankato East High School
• Mankato West High School
• New Prague High School
• Northfield H.S.
• Owatonna High School
• Red Wing High School
• Rochester Century High School
• Rochester John Marshall
• Rochester Mayo High School
• Winona High School

The rivalry between Blooming Prairie and NRHEG will end after 2014, as those two schools go to separate districts. They have played one another in recent years even though they play in different classes at playoff time. The Blossoms will be in the "Mid Southeast" while NRHEG goes to the 28-team "South Central" district. Medford will be part of Blooming Prairie's district.

MID SOUTHEAST DISTRICT

• Bethlehem Academy
• Blooming Prairie High School
• Fillmore Central High School
• Goodhue High School
• Hayfield High School
• Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton H.S.
• Kenyon-Wanamingo High School
• Kingsland High School
• Lewiston-Altura High School
• Mankato Loyola
• Medford High School
• Rushford-Peterson High School
• Southland High School
• St. Clair High School
• United South Central High School
• Wabasha-Kellogg High School

SOUTH CENTRAL DISTRICT

• Albert Lea High School
• Belle Plaine H.S.
• Blue Earth Area High School
• Fairmont High School
• G-F-W High School
• Jackson County Central High School
• Jordan High School
• Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial
• Lester Prairie \ Holy Trinity
• LeSueur-Henderson High School
• Luverne High School
• Maple River High School
• Marshall High School
• Martin County West H.S.
• Mayer Lutheran High School
• New Richland-H-E-G H.S.
• New Ulm High School
• Norwood-Young America High School
• Pipestone Area High School
• Redwood Valley High School
• Saint James Area
• Sibley East High School
• St. Peter High School
• Tri-City United High School
• Waseca High School
• Waterville-Elysian-Morristown H.S.
• Windom Area High School
• Worthington High School

Triton will play in the "Southeast" district with most of the teams that played in the HVL.

• Byron High School
• Caledonia High School
• Cannon Falls High School
• Chatfield High School
• Cotter High School
• Dover-Eyota High School
• Kasson-Mantorville High School
• La Crescent High School
• Lake City High School
• Pine Island High School
• Plainview-Elgin-Millville High School
• Rochester Lourdes High School
• St. Charles High School
• Stewartville High School
• Triton High School
• Zumbrota-Mazeppa High School

Notes from the high school league news release follow. (Click here to go to the high school league website for the full story.)

...The League Board of Directors today unanimously adopted a plan that places all members schools with football programs into Districts. The members of each district will divide the district into sub-districts, and then create a full schedule for each team....

...For several years League staff, school administrators and football coaches have sought a solution for school that have had difficulty filling their regular season football schedule....

...The 10-member District Football Placement Committee met five times since mid-March to place schools in districts, using enrollments, geography, like schools and current conference membership and current opponents as key criteria...