UHSAA Adds Boys Volleyball As Sanctioned Sport Starting In 2023
Mar 24, 2022, 1:48 PM
Chelmsford teammates Austin Chadwick, left, John Blake, and Joe Markey vie for the ball against Westfield's Ryan Bucko during game two of their Divison 1 state boys volleyball semifinal at Newton North High School on Monday, June 15, 2015. Staff photo by Christopher Evans (Photo by Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
(Photo by Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah High School Activities Association voted to add boys volleyball as a sanctioned sport beginning in the 2023-24 school year.
UHSAA announced the vote on Thursday, March 24.
The organization announced the news with the following statement:
“The Utah High School Activities Association will be adding a new sanctioned sport to its offerings in the 2023-24 school year.
The UHSAA Board-of-Trustees voted Thursday to add the sport of Boys’ Volleyball to the Association’s list of sanctioned activities, with state tournament competition beginning in the Spring season of the 2023-24 academic year. The sport was added according to the Association’s ‘Emerging Sports Policy’.
BREAKING: The UHSAA Board of Trustees has voted to add Boys Volleyball as a sanctioned sport, beginning in 2023-24. Read more at: https://t.co/VBh4LZtk6S 🏐 pic.twitter.com/pIuJINLyM2
— UHSAA (@UHSAAinfo) March 24, 2022
Boys volleyball will become the fifth sport that UHSAA has sanctioned since the 2016-17 school year.
In recent years, the organization has sanctioned boys and girls lacrosse, girls wrestling, and competitive cheerleading.
