The category placements are based on the previous year’s season results. Freshman student-athletes with no prior race history, by default, are placed in the Freshman race category.
Spring
- NorCal North / NorCal South – Posted August 8th, 2018
- North Carolina High School / North Carolina Middle School – Posted October 17th, 2019
- SoCal High School / SoCal Middle School – Posted October 9th, 2018
- Texas High School / Texas Middle School – Posted December 2nd, 2019
- New York – Posted November 13th, 2019
- Alabama High School / Alabama Middle School – Posted July 30th, 2019
- New Jersey – Posted October 10th, 2019
- Nevada South – Posted February 4th, 2019
Fall
- Arizona – Posted December 9th, 2019
- Arkansas – Posted March 30th, 2020
- Colorado – Posted April 1st, 2020
- Georgia – Posted January 7th, 2020
- Idaho – Posted March 27th, 2019
- Maryland High School / Maryland Middle School – Posted April 2nd, 2020
- Minnesota – Posted July 23rd, 2018
- Montana High School / Montana Middle School – Posted October 23rd, 2019
- Nevada North – Posted July 13th, 2018
- Oregon – Posted November 5th, 2019
- Pennsylvania – Posted March 11th, 2019
- Tennessee – Posted January 16th, 2020
- Virginia High School – Posted March 9th, 2020
- West Virginia High School / West Virginia Middle School – Posted January 7th, 2020
- Wisconsin – Posted November 21st, 2019
- Utah North / Utah South – Posted April 28th, 2017
- All other Leagues see NICA Rules and Guidelines.
For further information about how categories were calculated see the NICA Handbook (PDF) (2020)
If you would like to petition to a different category please work with your coach to fill out the Petition for Exemption found on your League website.