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  Updated: April 4, 2020 @ 9:22 am
  IHSAA Board Briefs from March
  Prior to the shutdown of statewide activities due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Iowa High School Athletic Association Board of Control met to discuss several items on its agenda.
  EVENTS STAY AT WELLS FARGO
  Just like girls' basketball, the boys' basketball and wrestling state tournaments will continue to take place at Wells Fargo Arena for at least the next five years.
  The Board of Control approved contracts at last week's meeting with Spectra, operator of Iowa Events Center, to keep the state wrestling tournaments and state basketball tournament inside Wells Fargo Arena through at least 2025.
  The traditional wrestling tournament has been in Des Moines every year since 1972, and basketball every year since 1963. Both events moved to Wells Fargo Arena once it opened in 2006.
  State wrestling currently has four contracted dates, including one day for duals and three for the traditional tournament. State basketball's schedule is five days since the IHSAA made the shift away from a six-day format in 2018.
  The IHSAA is concluded the state basketball tournament March 13 with attendance restrictions at Wells Fargo Arena.
  A new student advisory committee will begin with the 2020-2021 school year.
  The committee will consist of students who participate in interscholastic athletics and activities, are focused on leadership and are interested in becoming liaisons on behalf of students for the IHSAA, staff, Board of Control, and member schools.
  Board members approved the annual Basic Educational Data Survey from the Iowa Department of Education. The IHSAA and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union use these documents for enrollment-based sport classifications.
  Under the new classification system, Atlantic had an enrollment of 323 in grades 9-11, and was listed as the state's 103rd-largest school. Under a four-class system (used for basketball, track and baseball), the Trojans would remain in Class 3A, the second-largest enrollment classification. For IGHSAU sports – volleyball, basketball and softball) that use a five-class scheme, Atlantic remains in Class 3A.
  ACGC, with an enrollment of 180, is in Class 2A under the four-class system as the 182nd-largest school. AHSTW – which fell in Class 2A guidelines this year – will drop back to Class 1A in 2020-2021 as the 208th-largest school in the state and an enrollment of 156.
  Remaining in Class 1A are, in order of enrollment: CAM (111, 274th largest) Audubon (107, 281st largest), Griswold (95, 301st largest) and Exira-EHK (80, 314th largest).
  The enrollment numbers include students from grades 9-11 from the previous school year (2019-20) for classifications in the upcoming school year (2020-21). These documents were used to create classifications and districts for the 2020 football season, announced in Februrary. Football schedules are currently being prepared for a public release later this month.
  Van Meter superintendent Deron Durflinger became the newest Board of Control member.
  He was elected after Humboldt's Greg Darling, the Central District representative, resigned his position. Durflinger's term began with last Thursday's board meeting, and he will serve the remainder of Darling's term – through November 2021 – and is then eligible for re-election.