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TheWisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, as defined by its Constitution, is a voluntary, unincorporated, and nonprofit organization. The Association membership has a diversified membership of public high schools, nonpublic high schools, public middle schools, and nonpublic middle schools.

...to emphasize interscholastic athletics as a partner with other school activities in the total education process, and to formulate and maintain policies that will cultivate the high ideals of good citizenship and sportsmanship.

The Board of Control has the ultimate authority in determining the outcome of sport seasons rule recommendations and regulations. Among the advisory groups that provide input to the Board are the coaches advisory committees for each sport; the sports advisory committee, comprised of school athletic directors from each of the seven districts; the advisory council, consisting of school administrators from each elector district; and the executive staff. Other groups with advisory responsibilities include the medical advisory committee, sportsmanship committee and the officials advisory committee. The Season Regulations address, among other topics, definition of the sports seasons, participation, contest control and tournament procedures. View Organizational Structure.

The National Federation of State High School Associations is the authority of the competition rules for sport contests (i.e. uniforms, length of contest, game rules). As a member of the NFHS, the WIAA adheres to those rules as a member in good standing. The WIAA, as well as all state associations in the NFHS, has input with an advisory role in the review and promulgation of the playing rules. The NFHS office is located in Indianapolis, Ind.

The National Federation of State High School Associations recently published updated information asserting the value of participating in interscholastic activities. The data continues to support, with overwhelming evidence, that being part of school programs enriches the lives of millions of students each year on a national scale, including nearly 90,000 in Wisconsin.

It may also be undeniable that involvement in high school activities bodes well for participants after high school as well. According to researchers in a 2005 study, participation in extracurricular activities gives all students--including those from disadvantaged backgrounds and those without stellar academic accomplishments in high school--measurable improvements on college admission exam scores. Furthermore, students who compete in sports in high school were more likely than those not participating to be active in volunteering, voting, speaking publicly and being aware of current events.

Similar results were confirmed in a 2003 Journal of Adolescent Research report. It indicates high school extracurricular participation leads to fewer school drop outs, greater community involvement, greater academic achievement and a plethora of other positive outcomes. Perhaps the most important impact of participation in high school activities is the short- and long-term personal and emotional benefits that lead to making appropriate choices. According to a United States Department of Education article published in 2002, those who have no involvement in interscholastic activities are 49 percent more likely to use drugs and 37 percent more likely to become teen parents.

Therefore, it is increasingly important to demonstrate to those that live, work and pay taxes in the community the value of extracurricular activities. In the current climate of tightening school budgets and referendums that threaten to reduce funding for extracurricular programs, it is imperative for schools to embrace school activities that nurture its students.

Typically, the average cost of extracurricular programs is less than one percent of most school budgets, making them a fantastic bargain and value. This fact, combined with the unintended consequences of a districts considering either reducing or cutting its programs, makes extracurricular activities a resource schools must embrace and protect.

The WIAA takes pride in proclaiming that it is the first high school athletic association organized in the country. The history of the WIAA goes back to late 1895 and early 1896 when meetings were held involving people interested in promoting (but not necessarily regulating) athletic competition between Wisconsin high schools.

The meetings developed as a result of a state track meet conducted in May of 1895 by the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This state track meet was the first such venture undertaken anywhere in the United States. The first State champion of any kind recognized under WIAA rules was Milwaukee West in track in 1897, although Milwaukee East is recognized at the first State track champion in 1895.

The first State champion in basketball was Fond du Lac in 1905 when Lawrence College of Appleton conducted an invitational tournament. Wisconsin Normal School Athletic Directors began running a State Tournament for high schools in 1916 and Fond du Lac also was that tournament's first champion. The WIAA did not begin running the tournament program until 1920 but goes back to 1916 to consider its first official State champion. Lawrence College discontinued its invitational after 1918.

Wisconsin became a charter member in 1923 of the organization which now is known as the National Federation of State High School Associations. P.F. Neverman, the WIAA's first executive head, played an influential role in the formation of that organization, and in 1984 he was named to the National High School Sports Hall of Fame sponsored by the NFSHSA. The National Federation has had only three executive heads, and one of them was Clifford B. Fagan (1957 to 1977) who earlier was executive secretary of the WIAA. Fagan also is in the high school's Hall of Fame. John E. Roberts became executive secretary at the time Fagan went to the Federation office, and he held the position for 29 years until Dec. 31, 1985, when he retired. Douglas E. Chickering became the WIAA's fourth executive director on Jan. 1, 1986. Chickering retired on July 31, 2009. Dave Anderson succeeded Chickering as the Association's fifth executive director on August 1, 2009 and retired on July 31, 2021. Stephanie Hauser became the sixth executive director on July 1, 2021.

The first WIAA offices were located in Marinette as established there when Neverman became Executive Secretary. The offices remained in Marinette until 1958 when they were moved to Stevens Point. The WIAA constructed an office building in downtown Stevens Point when it came to the community in 1958. But, after outgrowing its original facility, the WIAA built again, this time in Park Ridge on the eastern edge of Stevens Point in 1964. The building got an addition in 1978, and it is located on Highway 10 about a mile west of the Highway 51 beltline. In June of 1999, the WIAA moved into its current Executive Office Building in the Portage County Business Park located at the junction of Interstate 39 and CTH HH. The 16,000 sq. ft. facility is home to the members of the WIAA Executive Staff and support staff.

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Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.

Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrahms. Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).

No plan. No backup. No choice. Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his elite team (Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg) go underground after a bombing of the Kremlin implicates the IMF as international terrorists. While trying to clear the agency's name, the team uncovers a plot to start a nuclear war. Now, to save the world, they must use every high-tech trick in the book.

With their elite organization shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) must race against time to stop The Syndicate, a deadly network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop this global threat, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent (Rebecca Ferguson) whose loyalty is suspect as he faces his most impossible mission ever.

Both the Fast & Furious and Mission: Impossible films have defied expectations over the years, as each new installment only seems to improve upon its predecessor. But whereas the Furious entries can function as standalone popcorn actioners hellbent at marveling moviegoers with insane vehicular mayhem, the Impossible franchise is a smartly-crafted interconnected series that grows and advances with its central hero, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise). While also astounding audiences with plenty of stunning visual spectacle and astonishing feats of daredevilry, every new sequel expands on the character's mythos, showing that he and his allies live in a larger universe that affects his personality and decisions. Action sequences are a direct result of his choices, the outcome of a decisiveness that has potentially been influenced by the events of the movies which have preceded it. And it's with this in mind that makes the Mission: Impossible series so entertaining, watching a talented, astute and otherwise sensible individual afflicted by years of sacrifice, conscious of the impact his choices have had on his personal life, as well as the world around him.

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