The Irvine public high schools and Rosary will appeal their league placement at the CIF Southern Section Council meeting on Thursday.
The Irvine schools – Irvine, Northwood, Portola, University and Woodbridge – and all-girls private school Rosary were kept in the Pacific Coast Conference for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years when league alignments were set for those school years at the Orange County releaguing meeting this month. Pacifica Christian, a private school in Newport Beach, was added to the Pacific Coast Conference.
Irvine, Northwood, Portola, University and Woodbridge want the Pacific Coast grouping dissolved so that they can go into the Coast View Conference of south county public schools. Rosary wants to return to the Trinity League. All of those schools must submit their appeals independently of each other.
The procedure is that the CIF-SS member leagues that make up the CIF-SS Council vote to approve or turn down the releaguing proposal. If that proposal is approved by the CIF-SS Council then the Irvine schools and Rosary would make their appeals and request the approval of their releaguing proposals that were defeated in the O.C. releaguing meeting earlier this month.
If the Irvine schools and Rosary counter-proposal, which aims to place the Irvine schools in the Coast View Conference and Rosary in the Trinity League, is approved, then appeals of that approved counter-proposal would come from Laguna Beach, Pacifica Christian, Sage Hill and St. Margaret’s which want to avoid being left behind in a four-team league.
The CIF-SS Council meeting will be at The Grand conference center in Long Beach.
The league groupings completed at the releaguing meeting earlier this month were for non-football sports. Football leagues will be configured for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 schools separately when the 2025 football season is over.
