WIAA Spring Performance Factor to be Applied to 2026 Divisional Placements

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 -- 8:42 AM

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Classification Committee conducted hearings for member school requests and appeals in applying the performance factor initiative for the spring sports with implementation during the 2026 seasons.

School programs reaching the six-point performance factor threshold during the past three seasons are placed in the division containing the next largest set of enrollments from where the schools’ enrollments would place them for each respective sport other than track & field and swimming & diving–which do not have a team component to advancement in the Tournament Series–and sports with only one division. Schools are restricted to moving up a maximum of one division from the previous year’s placement.

This initiative affords schools the opportunity to request to move to a division with lower or higher enrollments for all sports. The Classification Committee reviewed 13 such requests for spring sports. All the requests were to move down for the 2025-26 Tournament Series, including six in softball (Fall River, Frederic, Gibraltar, Riverdale, Sheboygan Lutheran, Sheboygan South), four in baseball (Iowa-Grant, Luck, Riverdale, Sheboygan South), and one each in boys golf (Spring Valley), girls soccer (Sheboygan South) and boys tennis (Sheboygan South).

The committee approved Fall River, Gibraltar, Sheboygan Lutheran and Sheboygan South to move down to a lower-enrollment division in softball; Luck and Sheboygan South to move down in baseball; and Sheboygan South in girls soccer and boys tennis; and Spring Valley in boys golf.

The spring school sports programs that have accumulated at least six points during the most recent three-year span to engage a promotion to a division with higher enrollments, if applicable, are listed below.

Baseball (4)

Aquinas

Johnson Creek

Kenosha St. Joseph Catholic

Pacelli

Boys Golf (9)

Cambridge

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser

Eau Claire Memorial

Edgerton

Lakeland

Marquette

Mineral Point

Sheboygan North

Waunakee

Girls Soccer (8)

Catholic Memorial

Cedar Grove-Belgium

Edgewood

Kiel

Muskego

Oregon

Plymouth

Whitefish Bay

Softball (8)

Brodhead

Fall Creek

Kaukauna

Mishicot

Kenosha Bradford

Oakfield

Pacelli

Waupun

Boys Tennis (5)

Brookfield Academy

Brookfield Central

Marquette

Middleton

University School of Milwaukee

The performance factor process affords schools the opportunity to appeal their promotion to the division with the next largest enrollments based on performance points. Of the 34 programs listed above that compiled the threshold of points to engage in a promotion, four appeals were submitted. The Classification Committee reviewed and evaluated one appeal in baseball (Johnson Creek), two in boys golf (Chetek-Weyerhaeuser and Edgerton) and one in softball (Waupun). There were no appeals approved for the programs moving up a division based on the performance factor.

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