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PIAA District III
The state of Pennsylvania is divided in 12 geographic districts for PIAA administrative purposes. Each district
has a district committee elected by member schools from within that District. Every committee elects a chair-
person who becomes that District’s representative on the PIAA Board of Directors. District III has an additional
representative on the State Board based on the number of members schools. District I and District XII also have
an additional representative; District VII has two additional representatives.
District III encompasses the counties of Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster,
Lebanon, Perry and York. Within this 10 county-area are 125 member senior high schools.
These member schools elect their District Committee to oversee various interscholastic programs within the
District. While the District Committee must follow all PIAA rules and regulations, each district has autonomy in
administering athletic contests prior to the PIAA interdistrict level.
District III is home to the following leagues Berks County Interscholastic Athletic Association, Christian
Commonwealth Athletic Conference, Lancaster-Lebanon League, Mid-Penn Conference, Tri-Valley League and
York-Adams Interscholastic Athletic Association. A small number of schools retain independent status.
The voting rules of the District mandate that all leagues shall have at least one representative on the
Committee as a voting member. These representatives are elected by the members schools at an Annual
Meeting held each April. In addition, a representative from the Pennsylvania School Board Association, a male
officials’ representative, a female officials’ representative, a male and female parents’ representative and a
girls athletics representative stand as voting members of the District III committee. There are 16 voting
members plus seven non-voting members on the Committee.
The District Committee develops, organizes and directs 26 District III championships (13 for boys, 13 for girls) in
16 different sports. Broken down by gender and class, the District conducts 71 team championships and 30
individual championships. Among the 30 individual championships, the District crowns 168 champions each
year.
These championships are a prerequisite to qualification for PIAA championships. In the fall, these include boys
and girls cross country, field hockey, boys and girls golf, football, boys and girls soccer, girls tennis and girls
volleyball. In the winter, championships conducted are boys and girls basketball, boys and girls swimming &
diving, wrestling and competitive spirit. While there is no PIAA championship for bowling, District III does con-
duct an individual championship for boys and girls bowling. The spring championships are baseball, boys and
girls lacrosse, softball, boys and girls outdoor track and field, boys tennis and boys volleyball.
The complete cost of funding these championships comes from the spectator ticket admission fees at District III
playoff events. This money is used to fund sports at which no admission fee is charged and where the cost
exceeds the income, insurance and administrative costs. At the end of each school year, surplus funds are
returned to the schools that participated in the sports that created the surplus. Schools do not pay District dues
or provide money to the District in any form with the exception of an entry fee in golf, tennis, competitive spirit
and bowling.
OUR MISSION
Organize, develop and direct athletic programs that will promote the health and physical wel-
fare of all participants, both male and female.
Foster good sportsmanship and safeguard the educational values of interscholastic athletics.
Develop and enforce rules adopted by the member schools that regulate interscholastic ath-
letic competition.
Organize and conduct a program of District III championship tournaments in various fields of
athletic competition .
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