[drothamel]

In VA, we just switched to both boys and girls in the winter two years ago. The reason for doing so was because volleyball is played here in the fall. This meant that girls had to choose between one or the other. Obviously, many of girls, especially the tall ones, want to play both. As a result, they moved girls basketball to winter to coincide with the boys. Not everyone was thrilled with it at first, especially some officials associations who don't have big numbers, but now I think everyone likes it. Although, it did create gym space problems for some schools. A lot of the small schools only have one gym, and that makes it hard to have practice for 4 basketball teams and have everything end at a reasonable time.