Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
| Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Abbreviation | TSSAA |
| Formation | 1925 |
| Type | Volunteer; NPO |
| Legal status | Association |
| Purpose/focus | Athletic/Educational |
| Headquarters | 3333 Lebanon Rd. Hermitage, TN 37076 |
| Region served | Tennessee |
| Membership | 374 schools |
| Official languages | English |
| Executive Director | Bernard Childress |
| Affiliations | National Federation of State High School Associations |
| Budget | $1,200,000+ |
| Website | tssaa.org |
| Remarks | (615) 889-6740 |
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) is an organization which administers junior and senior high school sporting events in Tennessee.
Contents |
[edit] Description
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association administers sporting events for an estimated 110,000 participants, 374 schools, 4,000 coaches, 3,000 officials, and 5,500 teams in the American state of Tennessee. First organized in 1925, the TSSAA oversees athletic functions of both public and private schools. It includes schools throughout the state of Tennessee, as well as a single private school located in Mississippi.1
In 2001, the association was a party in the United States Supreme Court case Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association.[1] Brentwood Academy had sued the Association after the school was penalized for "undue influence" in recruiting football players, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. The court in this case held that a statewide association, incorporated to regulate interscholastic athletic competition among public and private schools, is regarded as engaging in state action when it enforces a rule against a member school.
The fall of 2009 was the first year for the TSSAA to divide into six playoff classifications for football.The new system allowed more teams into the playoffs. For example classes 3A-6A each have 32 teams in the playoffs with four quadrants in each. In each quadrant teams are seeded one to eight.
[edit] Notes
- ^1 The only exception is Fort Campbell High School on the Tennessee side of the eponymous U.S. Army base. The base straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border, most of the base housing is in Kentucky, and the school is administered by the same Department of Defense district as the high school at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Fort Campbell High is therefore a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association. Southern Baptist Educational Center, located a short distance across the Mississippi state line, is a TSSAA member under a rule provision permitting TSSAA membership for a school that relocated from Tennessee to another state, if the majority of the students at such school are Tennessee residents.
[edit] References
- ^ Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Assn., 531 U.S. 288 (2001).
[edit] External links
|
|||||
