When the three-plus hour meeting adjourned just after 12:15, it put the state on the clock for essentially taking control of Florida’s governing body of high school athletics.
On July 1, a new board will take over and pilot the direction of high school sports.
Executive director Craig Damon said that it was a bittersweet day. On one hand, Damon was saying goodbye to numerous FHSAA board members in an official capacity for the final time. On the other, Damon, who received excellent reviews from the board on Tuesday, said that he looked forward to working with the new board and helping to move the FHSAA into the future.
Chris Patricca, an elected school board member from Lee County, was the lone board member who said openly and publicly that she was disappointed that politics had inundated high school sports like it has. HB 225 was authored by Republican lawmakers and passed the House and Senate on a party line vote. Outgoing board president John Gerdes said that politics has unquestionably become part of the landscape in the state, but he remained optimistic about the future.
It’s the second time in the past 23 years that the FHSAA has been forced by the state to shake up its power structure. The first came in 1997 under Democratic governor Lawton Chiles when the FHSAA was shaken up under legislation and its board reduced from 33 to 16. Damon’s position as the executive director is also something that is addressed in the bill, saying that the hiring of the executive director must be ratified by the State Board of Education. Damon said Tuesday that he hasn’t been specifically told of any changes to his position.In the hyper-charged political climate, the move gives the state, and essentially DeSantis, unprecedented and direct control of high school sports in Florida.
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