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The Telegraph-Journal has learned that at today's annual general meeting in Fredericton, everything from the participation status of one it schools in the southern conference to the overall structure of leagues and the organization of the governing body itself will be discussed and voted on.
Of particular significance is the fate of sports teams at Rothesay Netherwood School.
Today, the NBIAA membership will vote on a motion that calls for all teams at RNS to be ineligible for provincial high school championships because the school is able to attract students from outside its traditional geographic zones, a supposed advantage over other schools.
And while all the school's teams are included in the motion, it seems directly targeted at the RNS hockey program, where the boys squad has won the past two AA titles and rolled over most of its regular competition.
In fact, in seven playoff games this year, they outscored their opposition 56-10.
But Paul Kitchen, the head of school at RNS, says officials with the program, after winning the AA title in 2006-07, requested a move to the AAA ranks. After that request was denied, they asked to become a team that played an exhibition loop.
They were denied again.
“We were really in a no-win situation,” said Kitchen. “We certainly weren't helped with the NBIAA not allowing us to play exhibition as we requested and we were not helped by not allowing us to be a AAA team, which would have been appropriate for our level of team this year.”
Kitchen says because RNS is a school that boards students, that by definition the students have to come from outside the area. He added the school does not want to play teams that it is too strong for and wants a competitive environment.
“I can't believe it is going to be passed,” he said of the motion. “I am hoping it won't. I can't believe it is the right thing, I can't believe it is the moral thing. Sometimes, people who don't understand situations, sometimes make erroneous conclusions.

telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com