The 2024 Trinity League football group might include Los Alamitos and Mission Viejo.
Actually, it would not be called the Trinity League.
Let’s explain …
The process of creating Orange County high school sports leagues for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years is underway. County athletic directors meet Monday to discuss possibilities.
The major move could be the creation of football-only leagues. That is, a school like La Habra that has been in the Freeway League for decades could be placed in a six-team football group that would include no other Freeway League teams but would remain in the Freeway League for all other sports.
The football-only concept would take the Orange County Area’s 75 schools that play 11-man football and rank them according to CalPreps.com’s ratings system. That’s the rating system the CIF Southern Section uses to place football teams in football playoff divisions.
Using CalPreps data, a power-points profile would be created each of the 75 teams. The power-points profile would be based on the team’s performance the previous two seasons, with 65 percent of the profile coming from the most recent season and the other 35 percent from two seasons prior.
The six teams with the most power points would be grouped in one league. The next six teams would be grouped together and so on to create 11 six-team leagues. That covers 66 teams; the other nine, according to Ocean View athletic director Tim Walsh, would be spread into four- and five-team leagues.
League memberships would be different the following school year when power-points profiles are changed by the most recent season’s performance.
Although it’s not in Orange County, St. John Bosco, located in Bellflower, is included in the Orange County Area. According to CIF-SS bylaws, area placement is the first step toward creating leagues. St. John Bosco was placed in the Orange County Area many years ago so it could be with the five Orange County schools that are in the…
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