AASCA Atlantic & Pacific Divisions
(Soccer – Basketball –Volleyball)
Division Selection Process
The objective of the creation of divisions in the three major AASCA sports was based on the desire to create a more level field of competition for all AASCA schools, while ensuring that there would be 6 high quality events that reflected and upheld AASCA’s purpose and beliefs. The two divisions will be named the Atlantic Division and the Pacific Division.
The updated criteria for schools selected to participate in the Atlantic division are as follows:
- There will be 10 schools that must compete in the Atlantic division. (Revised 2025 based upon enrollment)
- The focus on school participation in events was minimized during the 2025 revision process.
- A minimum of one school per AASCA member country will be included in the Atlantic Division. (2025)
- Based on these updated criteria, the Atlantic division will consist of the following schools:
| Escuela Internacional Sampedrana, Honduras | Lincoln School, Costa Rica |
| American School of Tegucigalpa, Honduras | Country Day School, Costa Rica |
| American School of El Salvador | Colegio Interamericano de Guatemala |
| American School of Guatemala | Village School, Guatemala |
| American School of Nicaragua | International School of Panama |
- Each of the other AASCA schools will participate in the Pacific Division. These schools have the right to petition to compete in the Atlantic Division following the Petition Protocol.
- Schools will remain in established divisions for two years when the process will be revisited during the General Directors’ Meeting (2027)
Petitions
AASCA Pacific schools are eligible to petition to participate in the Atlantic division on a tournament by tournament, category by category basis. Schools must formally state their intention to petition for each of the AASCA tournaments prior to September 15th . The request must be sent, emailed, to the President of the Athletic Directors, Wendy Acosta, , as well as the general directors of the two host schools (Atlantic/Pacific).
The email should clearly state which team(s) the school wishes to move to participate in the Atlantic Division. Upon receiving the recommendations of the AASCA Athletic Directors, a final decision to accept the petition will be decided by a vote of AASCA General Directors. This decision must be affirmed no later than one week prior to the closing of registration of the petitioned event. If a member of the Board of the AASCA Athletic Directors is a petitioning school, one of the two vocals will be named to serve the decision making process.
Petition Protocol
A petition will be accepted using the following criteria:
- There are more than eight teams in the Pacific Division tournament.
- Examples: If a Pacific tournament has 10 registered teams in the male category and 10 registered teams in the female category, two petitions can be accepted from each category. If the event has 10 registered teams in the male category and nine registered teams in the female category, two male team petitions can be accepted, but only one female team petition can be accepted.
- In the case where there are more schools who petitioned to move, than there are spaces available to move, the decision on which a school’s petition will be accepted is based on the school’s rank in the previous year’s event. If the school did not participate in the previous year’s event their rank will be one more than the number of participating teams from the previous year’s event. In the case where schools have petitioned to move in both categories and there are more schools petitioned to move then there are spaces available, the school with the lower combined score, based on last year’s rank, will have their petition approved.
- Example: School A Boys rank #12, Girls rank #4, combined 16. School B Boys rank #7, Girls rank #8, combined 15. School B’s petition would be approved.
- In the case where schools have petitioned to move in both categories, and there are more schools petitioned to move then there are spaces available, and the combined scores are tied, preference will be given to a school that is located in the same city of the hosting school followed by the same country of the hosting school. If neither of these apply, the decision will be made by a coin flip.
Resolution approved at the AASCA General Directors’ Meeting on May 04, 2019 and revised in 2025.