WIAA sets partial rules for winter sports

RENTON –– The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) set the rules for winter sports and made it clearer what it takes to have a season.

Making plans to hold regional finishing events, instead of state tournaments, the WIAA will require eight teams to be eligible in a single classification of a region to have a postseason.

If a classification does not have enough teams eligible, the leftover schools may join another level in their region.

The WIAA executive board met Nov. 2, laying out the changes.

For a winter season to start, the WIAA and Washington State Department of Heal...