LINCOLN — The Nebraska School Activities Association recently released the new enrollment numbers and football classifications.
A new football cooperative, Wausa-Osmond, will compete in Class D1 football in 2024. Another area school, Bloomfield, moved up into Class D1, after being in D2 for several years.
Preliminary schedules for the upcoming season are expected to be released in February.
All five Cedar County schools participating in football — Cedar Catholic, Hartington-Newcastle, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge, Randolph and Wynot — will remain in the same classes next year.
In all, seven schools have decided to opt down out of 11-man football and into Class D1 next year.
Those schools will not, however, be eligible for postseason play. Area schools opting down include Wakefield and West Holt.
