I needed to blink a few occasions once I pulled up the grasp schedule for the Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation of Maryland for this fall.
I wished to try the colleges who may problem Baltimore Bryn Mawr (Md.) for the 2025 title, one which was received by the Mawrtians a yr in the past.
However there was a major piece lacking from the puzzle. For the primary time, possible because the sport of discipline hockey was launched to the Baltimore suburbs, you received’t see a West Northern Parkway derby between Bryn Mawr and Baltimore Roland Park (Md.).
These two faculties have been champions of younger girls in schooling for the final century and 1 / 4, and have been nice rivals in most sports activities, together with the sport of discipline hockey.
Nonetheless, because the pandemic, I’ve seen that Bryn Mawr and Roland Park have been in separate divisions inside the IAAM. Bryn Mawr has been within the high division, the A Convention, whereas Roland Park has been taking part in within the second division, the B Convention. This yr, Roland Park is now within the C Convention.
I’m not aware about the selections which necessitate the motion of groups up and down with the IAAM. All I do know is that it’s not an computerized promotion/relegation system like it’s in skilled sports activities worldwide; these varieties of choices are made amongst the athletic administrators of the colleges with membership within the IAAM.
It was the identical form of decisionmaking that created a hiatus within the Wyoming Valley derby match between Mountain Prime Crestwood (Pa.) and Kingston Wyoming Seminary (Pa.) when the Wyoming Valley Convention put the 2 faculties in several divisions for a interval of the 2010s.
I do know that the catalyst for this variation needed to be final yr’s end result between the 2 sides, when Bryn Mawr, on the way in which to a title, beat their neighborhood rival 11-0. The way in which I see it, nevertheless, there’s no assure that the outcomes between the 2 faculties will stay divergent; one expert participant could make an infinite distinction within the fortunes of a staff.
I’ve a sense these two outdated rivals shall be on one another’s discipline hockey schedule in brief order. Rivalries like this are good for the sport.
