Seventeen proposals will be presented when Orange County principals and athletic administrators meet to create the high school sports conferences and leagues for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years.
The proposals are for sports other than football. The county football leagues are created separately and exclusively.
A majority of schools supported a proposal in May that would have, among other changes, placed Laguna Beach in a north county conference and dissolved the current Pacific Coast Conference. That proposal also would have added Crean Lutheran, St. Margaret’s and other O.C. private schools to the Trinity League to create a Trinity Conference.
Laguna Beach and St. Margaret’s successfully appealed their placement to the CIF Southern Section Executive Committee. Laguna Beach’s appeal was supported by the Executive Committee 18-0. That forced Orange County to restart the releaguing process.
The meeting Friday will take place at Segerstrom High.
The winning proposal from that meeting goes to the CIF-SS Council on Sept. 25 for final approval. The Council is made up of representatives from the Southern Section’s 92 leagues and at-large representatives. Further appeals can be made at the Council meeting.
A proposal submitted by 39 schools, including Laguna Beach and the Trinity League, would place Laguna Beach in a Pacific Coast Conference and would add Pacifica Christian to the group. The current Pacific Coast Conference membership is the Irvine public schools of Irvine, Northwood, Portola, University and Woodbridge plus private schools Rosary, Sage Hill and St. Margaret’s.
Some proposals would expand the Trinity League with the addition of Crean Lutheran, Sage Hill and Rosary.
Some proposals would create a new six-school league of Calvary Chapel, Crean Lutheran, Pacifica Christian, Rosary, Sage Hill and St. Margaret’s.
Several proposals include dissolving the Pacific Coast Conference, sending its public schools to join the Coast View Conference with south county schools, and its private schools, along with Pacifica Christian, to the Trinity Conference.
Laguna Beach submitted a proposal that would place the school in an expanded Coast View Conference that would also include the Irvine public schools.