Albion and Medina Central School District’s Boards of Education voted earlier this week to combine the football programs at both schools.<\/p>\n
The merger takes effect this year.<\/p>\n
The schools say the mergers were necessitated by declining school enrollment and extracurricular participation trends.<\/p>\n
The teams will be combined at all three levels \u2014 modified, junior varsity and varsity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best interests of our students need to always remain top of mind,\u201d Albion Board of Education Vice President John Kast said in a statement. \u201cBoth schools are familiar with the power of community and we believe that bringing our communities together to work toward the same goal will only make us stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are looking forward to providing a safe and competitive program for our student-athletes,\u201d Eric Valley, Medina athletic director and varsity football coach, said in a statement. \u201cWe hope to foster an exciting environment where school pride, comradery and lifelong friendships can flourish.\u201d<\/p>\n
School officials say finalized branding, including the team name, logo and colors, will be announced at a later date, along with details on what division the teams will play in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albion and Medina Central School District’s Boards of Education voted earlier this week to combine the football programs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,4093,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-454710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rochester","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116053674653095127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}