{"id":1739,"date":"2026-06-29T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:39:23","slug":"the-divide-between-pa-s-public-and-private-high-school-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"The divide between Pa.\u2019s public and private high school sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><i>First in an occasional series<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Philadelphia Catholic League basketball was a fixture for Kevin Grugan \u2014 a mild obsession, even \u2014 throughout his childhood. Growing up in Rhawnhurst, he had deep and natural ties to Father Judge\u2019s program in particular. His uncle, Ron Sawacki, was an assistant under legendary head coach Bill Fox, and Grugan competed in Judge\u2019s summer basketball camps, went to the Crusaders\u2019 games on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons in the winter, and graduated from the school in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1737\">An early morning shooting at a West Philadelphia bar left one worker dead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI would watch the games,\u201d he said, \u201cand be enthralled.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>His fascination had faded by 2007, when Lower Merion High School\u2019s administration hired him to teach math and assist Gregg Downer, the school\u2019s longtime boys\u2019 basketball coach. The subsequent years have not reignited his nostalgia for the old days of Northeast Philly hoops. In fact, in his role as a coach at a suburban public school, Grugan has come to resent what he perceives as an uneven playing field throughout Pennsylvania sports. Parochial, private, and charter schools, after all, don\u2019t have borders; they can draw their students, and their student-athletes, from anywhere. Public schools can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHigh school athletics is about building a team, building a culture,\u201d Grugan said recently. \u201cYou\u2019re devising competition. You\u2019re learning from that competition. You\u2019re trying to improve on the next game. But you go into those events, and suddenly standing across from you are multiple if not five Division I athletes. You can\u2019t watch enough film to find that very secret flaw that nobody else has found.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Grugan\u2019s complaints have become common among Pennsylvania\u2019s public school coaches, administrators, parents, and players since the Catholic League and Public League moved under the jurisdictional umbrella of the PIAA in the fall of 2008. And that fierce debate about fairness could soon be cast in stark relief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In April, the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives passed, by a 178-23 vote, House Bill No. 41, which would allow the PIAA to \u201cestablish separate playoffs and championships for athletics for boundary schools and non-boundary schools.\u201d The Pennsylvania Senate can vote on the bill at any time but has not yet. A spokesperson for Gov. Josh Shapiro said that \u201cthe Shapiro administration is monitoring the bill as it moves through the legislative process\u201d but did not have a position on it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Shapiro and his aides might be the only people connected to Pennsylvania\u2019s high school sports who <i>don\u2019t <\/i>have a position on the bill or the public-private divide. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to find a state issue that provokes such strong viewpoints and often-strident opinions. And this issue has plenty of big-picture and hyper-local tentacles, including the professionalization and commodification of high school sports, the question of athletics\u2019 appropriate purpose and role in secondary education, and accusations that some non-boundary schools  by recruiting student-athletes for the sole purpose of having them play sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAll we\u2019re trying to do is say that part of high school sports is teaching kids how to play a fair game,\u201d Rep. Scott Conklin (D), who introduced House Bill No. 41 and represents the 77th district, in State College, said in a phone interview. \u201cIt\u2019s something they can use for the rest of their lives. We don\u2019t want to teach them that there are two sets of rules: one set for a boundary school, one for a non-boundary school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Conklin cited player safety, particularly within football, as a primary reason for House Bill No. 41, arguing that non-public schools can attract more athletes \u2014 and more athletes who are bigger, stronger, and faster \u2014 than their public opponents can.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe boundary school may have 18 really good players; they play offense and defense,\u201d he said. \u201cBy the second quarter, those kids are tired, and that\u2019s when children get hurt: when they\u2019re gassed.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div><svg><\/svg><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>When it comes to competition in team sports, especially football and basketball, the private, charter, and parochial schools have been dominant in state playoffs in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<footer><cite>Rep. Scott Conklin (D)<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He did not provide any statistical evidence to support this claim, and in a Dec. 3, 2024, memo he circulated to state House members to introduce the bill, he made it clear another factor was just as important, if not more so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to competition in team sports, especially football and basketball,\u201d Conklin wrote, \u201cthe private, charter, and parochial schools have been dominant in state playoffs in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Among the highest-profile sports, that dominance hasn\u2019t been quite as severe as Conklin suggested. Consider these results since the beginning of the fall 2008 sports season:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Boundaryschools have won 54of the 92 football state championships.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Non-boundary schools have won 63 of the 86 boys\u2019 basketball state championships, including 16 of the last 18.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Non-boundary schools have won49 of the 86 girls\u2019 basketball state championships.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe aria-label=\"Split Bars\" data-external=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"309\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-xYi5k\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/xYi5k\/2\/\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Parochial and Private Schools Dominate Pa. Sports\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In an attempt to achieve and maintain competitive balance, the PIAA does use a formula, based on non-boundary schools\u2019 success and the number of transfer students they accept, that can allow teams to move up in enrollment classification. Still, St. Joseph\u2019s Prep, with an all-male enrollment of roughly 900 and without a football stadium on its North Philadelphia campus, has won seven PIAA Class 6A championships in the last 10 years while competing alongside the state\u2019s biggest public schools, including North Penn, which has more than 3,000 students. What\u2019s more, a recent donation of $74 million from Prep alumnus and billionaire entrepreneur Nick Howley is likely to help the Hawks separate themselves further from the 6A field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just two different structures,\u201d Prep president John Marinacci said. \u201cAll our student-athletes, whether it be football or anything else, come from the same geographic locations that our whole student body comes from. I know there are allegations out there that we have students from all over America. You know where the Prep is. It\u2019s 15 minutes from Jersey. Do we have kids who play football who come from Jersey? We do. We also have a lot of kids who play other sports or don\u2019t play sports who come from Jersey. The geographic reach of the school is what it is. We\u2019re a regional school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\u2018We\u2019re coming\u2019<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Intrastate athletic competition among different types of Pennsylvania high schools is nothing new. In 1972, the state legislature amended the Public School Code to allow non-public schools to participate in postseason and championship events with public schools, and some private and parochial institutions have been members of PIAA leagues and conferences for years. When eight Delaware Valley schools came together to found the Pioneer Athletic Conference in 1985, for example, two of them were Lansdale Catholic and St. Pius X, and the members of the all-girls Catholic Academies League have long competed against suburban Philadelphia public schools within PIAA District One.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The issue took on increased salience both in the region and throughout Pennsylvania, though, when the Catholic and Public Leagues entered the PIAA 18 years ago. At the time, association members who might have raised questions about competitive fairness were cautioned against making any such case, according to a source who was directly involved in negotiating and implementing the expansion. If they did, the legislature would take steps to strip the PIAA of much of its power, oversight, and relevance. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1735\">Phillies won\u2019t rush Andrew Painter\u2019s return to majors. Instead, it\u2019s about \u2018getting himself\u2019 right.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAlmost every legislator\u2019s child went to a non-public school,\u201d the source said, \u201cand everybody wants to have that state-championship medal. \u2026 They said, \u2018Don\u2019t try us, \u2019cause we\u2019re coming.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>So the Catholic and Public Leagues formed District 12, and the inclusion of the Public League counterbalanced the injection of private-school strength into the association only so much. The Public League today has 73 member schools. But nearly half of them \u2014 34 \u2014 are charters, among them football and boys\u2019 basketball powerhouse Imhotep, and the School District of Philadelphia\u2019s open-enrollment policy can allow exceptional athletes to attend just about any high school and compete for any coaches or programs they want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For the two leagues, the ostensible reasoning that justified joining the PIAA still stands up. It would lead to more fulfilling experiences for student-athletes: better (or at least more diverse) competition, travel outside the limits of the city and the suburbs that ring it, perhaps more exposure to and interaction with recruiters \u2014 and, of course, the opportunity to call themselves state champions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"488\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MAwEA\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/MAwEA\/3\/\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Search Pa. Champs in H.S. Basketball and Football\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d go to college and hear somebody say, \u2018We beat Neshaminy in a state championship game,\u2019\u201d said Father Judge basketball coach Chris Roantree, who won a Catholic League boys\u2019 championship as a player with the Crusaders in 1997 before guiding them to back-to-back PCL titles and a PIAA Class 6A championship over the last two years. \u201cI\u2019d be like, \u2018We played Neshaminy and beat them by 50. Are you really a state champion?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the thing: Philly is Philly. So if you want all the Philly kids to go to public schools, they\u2019re still going to dominate. There\u2019s so much talent in Philadelphia that it doesn\u2019t matter where it goes. That\u2019s a disadvantage for us. There are six, seven, eight, 10 good teams in the Catholic League. If they\u2019re in the playoffs, they\u2019re going to make some noise in the states. There\u2019s a lot of good players spread out. I laugh at it sometimes, but we can only control what we can control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Catholic and Public Leagues, loaded with student-athletes who have chosen to attend and play for their respective schools, have another advantage over the publics: They are in alignment with the generational shifts and trends throughout youth sports, as young athletes and their parents crave more freedom and place greater importance on AAU, club, and travel teams. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be looking at increasing the opportunities for kids,\u201d District One chairman Mike Barber said. \u201cIf not, they\u2019re going to find other places to play.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to deny that, in this modern landscape, the PIAA benefits from the presence of private, parochial, and charter schools, that these programs infuse the association\u2019s competition with more talent and prestige.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhat they do is unbelievable,\u201d Central Bucks East girls\u2019 basketball coach Liz Potash said. \u201cWe played Archbishop Carroll in our Christmas tournament, and you watch that scout film, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, my gosh! This is unbelievable.\u2019 I have all the respect in the world for those programs. Where it gets me is in the postseason, when I have to compete for the same championship. Then it\u2019s just not a level playing field. \u2026 I\u2019ll play them in-season. I have no issue with that. But when I have to compete for the same championship, there\u2019s a disparity there, and I think obviously everyone is aware of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The reality that non-boundary schools can and do pull students from New Jersey, Delaware, and the suburbs that feed District One\u2019s public schools has stoked plenty of us-vs.-them tension. Potash herself admitted to rooting for Perkiomen Valley during its run to the 2025 Class 6A girls\u2019 hoops championship, and when CB East beat Germantown Academy \u2014 a private, non-PIAA program \u2014 last season, one of Potash\u2019s fellow public school coaches called to tell her, <i>Man, there\u2019s nothing I like to see more than when one of us knocks off a team like that<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cDistrict One and District 12 hate each other,\u201d one area athletic director said, though Starr Davenport, the Philadelphia School District\u2019s director of finance for athletics, tried to soften that assertion by drawing on a familiar rivalry as an analogy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cYou can compare it to almost Dallas vs. the Eagles,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t really hate them. It\u2019s a healthy, quasi-toxic athletic approach to, \u2018We\u2019re better than District One.\u2019 It\u2019s the proximity. It\u2019s the ongoing battles that are close. It gets to the point where it\u2019s one vs. the other, but I think there\u2019s harmony and respect across both districts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The irony \u2014 and, for many public school coaches, the frustration \u2014 is that the traditional city and neighborhood rivalries within the Catholic and Public Leagues mean more to some coaches, players, and fans than the district and state tournaments do. The rollicking sellout crowds filling the Palestra every year for the PCL boys\u2019 basketball semifinals and the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 championship games have been just the most obvious example. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe want to win the Pub,\u201d West Philly High boys\u2019 basketball coach Adrian Burke said in February, before his team lost to Imhotep in this year\u2019s Public League championship game. \u201cIt\u2019s legendary. You\u2019re talking about some of the greatest basketball players ever. You\u2019re talking about Wilt Chamberlain, Gene Banks. I could [go] on and on and on. When you think about the Public League, you think about all those guys who paved the way for us to play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t care too much about districts. States is good. But we want to win the Pub.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>A solution?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Splitting the PIAA playoffs into boundary and non-boundary brackets would not be unprecedented, but it would be unusual. New Jersey is one of four states that allows public and private schools to compete during regular seasons but keeps them separate for postseasons, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the USA Today Network. Another four states, including Maryland, don\u2019t permit boundary and non-boundary schools to play against each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Grugan wouldn\u2019t mind such a measure, wouldn\u2019t mind seeing House Bill No. 41 signed into law and put into effect. Lower Merion won its last state title in 2013, and in 2019 and every year from 2021 through 2025, it lost in the state playoffs to either Roman Catholic or Archbishop Wood. The question that he, Rep. Conklin, and everyone involved or interested in Pennsylvania high school sports has to ask and answer is this: Is it better to have lost to these non-boundary teams or never to have played them at all?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe keep making these decisions based on the idea that all high school athletes are performing at this high Division I level,\u201d Grugan said, \u201cand my thing is, most of the high school athletes you\u2019re coaching are going to have a high school basketball experience and that\u2019s it. And by the way, that\u2019s a great thing. That is going to teach them so many lessons, and they\u2019ll be able to thrive in other situations in their lives with amazing memories. We still celebrate big games by getting pizza. That\u2019s as good a moment as anything we\u2019re going to produce on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1733\">The USMNT has one World Cup knockout win ever. Right now is the best chance to change that.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><i>Staff news developer Chris A. Williams contributed to this article.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, there\u2019s been tension between private schools competing against Pennsylvania\u2019s public schools in the PIAA playoffs. 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