The Sac-Joaquin Section’s realignment committee generated its third proposal for the shuffling of its high schools for the 2018-19 to 2021-22 school years that, like its second proposal, would result in Roseville High School remaining in the Division II Capital Valley Conference. The committee presented the proposal last Thursday at its third meeting of this realignment process.

At its first meeting last December, the committee’s proposal had RHS placed in the Division III Tri-County Conference. RHS athletic director Emily Dodds fought against this placement with her own proposal and RHS was back in the CVC by the second meeting.

However, although RHS would remain static, the CVC would not; the league would lose Cosumnes Oaks and Whitney to the Division I Delta League and Sierra Foothill League, respectively, and Del Campo to the Division III Capital Athletic League and Oakmont and Ponderosa to the TCC.

To make up for those losses, the league would bring up Inderkum, River Valley and Yuba City from the TCC and would add Woodcreek, who would drop down from the SFL. This would reduce the CVC to a league of seven schools, as opposed to the eight that it has currently.

Other notable proposals include the modifications to other leagues in Division II. The Monticello Empire League would accept Vanden, who is in the Division III Solano County Athletic Conference, but would lose Wood to the same league.

The Metropolitan Conference would accept Grant and Monterey Trail from the Delta League and River City from the TCC but would lose Sacramento to the CAL and Florin, Johnson and Valley to a new, unnamed league in Division IV.

Sophomore Austin Wehner is the varsity boys soccer team’s leading scorer and any shifts made to RHS by the realignment committee could affect him in upcoming years if he continues to play on the team. He believes, due to the talent he sees in his class and the freshman class, that RHS should move up to compete in Division I if there are to be any changes made to the school’s placement.

“To be honest, I think that coming up here in the next couple of years that, if anything, we should definitely go up to Division I as a school because our freshmen and our sophomores that we have now are really athletic people,” Wehner said.