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The Illinois High School Association -IHSA is designed to regulate competition in interscholastic sports and activities at the high school level. The second oldest of the 52 state high school associations, Ihsa was founded on December 2, 1900.

Today it is regulating 14 sports for boys, 14 sports for girls, and eight co-educational non-athletic activities. Based in Bloomington, Illinois, IHSA is a charter member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Over 760 public and private high schools in the state of Illinois are members of the IHSA.

In the beginning, the IHSA was concerned mostly with establishing school control over interscholastic athletic programs and setting eligibility standards for competition. Ringers were a persistent problem, and among school sports, football was a special concern. Severe injuries and even deaths too were common in this period, developing a pressure to ban football completely.

IHSA is led by an eleven-member Board of Directors; all of them are high school principals from member schools. Seven of the ten are elected to three-year terms whereas the rest board members are elected at-large. The Board of Directors determines IHSA policies and employs an executive director and staff.

The board also works with the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Principals Association, the Illinois Association of School Boards, the Illinois Association of School Administrators, the Illinois Athletic Directors Association and the North Central Association.

The Illinois High School Association also has a 35-member Legislative Commission, consisting of 21 high school principals, seven high school athletic directors, and seven at-large members. Reviewing amendment proposals to the IHSA Constitution and By-laws, Ihsa determines which are passed on to a vote of the member schools.

The day-to-day running of the Association is charged to an administrative staff of nine. Each of the staff members acts in the position of Executive Director.

They are directly responsible for setting up and running the individual state playoff series in each sport and activity. The group also supervises annual meetings with advisory committees from each sport and activity where possible changes in the rules are reviewed.

The administrative staff also coordinates committees on issues from sportsmanship and sports medicine to media relations and corporate sponsorship. There are a number of policies subordinated to the Constitution and By-Laws.

These policies are generally of greater interest to the public, which include individual athlete eligibility, rules governing the addition of new sports and activities and media relations.

By 1922, Charles W. Whitten, as vice president of the Board, reorganized the basketball tournament and reduced the size of the state finals from 21 teams to four.

About the same time, the IHSA became a charter member of the NFHS. Whitten was then looking after both organizations. He and his assistant manager at the IHSA, H. V. Porter, exerted unusual influence over high school sports across Illinois.

As IHSA matured, member schools requested sponsorship of state tournaments in sports other than basketball. In 1927, IHSA took over control of the Illinois Interscholastic, which included track, golf, and tennis.

The IHSA established state series in boy's swimming and diving (1932), wrestling (1937), baseball (1940), cross country (1946), and gymnastics (1958). The IHSA held its first girls' state tournament in tennis in 1972, and a variety of other sports quickly followed. Today, it sponsors state tournaments in 14 sports for girls.