DIAA 2022 Winter Championships Site Announcement
Dover, DE (February 14, 2022) – Sites have been announced for the upcoming Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) winter sport championships for indoor track, individual wrestling, swimming and diving, boys and girls basketball and unified basketball.
The DIAA Indoor Track Championship will be held this Saturday, February 19, 2022 at University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). The 2021 indoor track championship was held at Dover High School as a polar bear meet, due to the COVID-19 health pandemic. Originally, the 2022 DIAA indoor track championship was planned to return to Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex (Landover, MD) for the first time since 2020, but in December 2021, DIAA was made aware that the facility would no longer be available to host track meets. DIAA diligently sought adequate venues for the 2022 indoor track championship meet that met DIAA’s requirements for hosting. Facilities with restrictive COVID-19 policies were eliminated as possible venues, while other inhibitive factors such as travel distance and available meet dates narrowed the list of possible venues considerably. The 2022 indoor track championship at UMES will be a no spectator event due to a lack of spectator seating and other facility occupancy restrictions that the meet will be held under. The DIAA Track Committee opted to hold the event at an indoor track, rather than host another “polar bear” meet which could prove risky to rely on favorable and safe outdoor conditions in February. The DIAA 2022 Indoor Track Championship meet will be streamed live on NFHSNetwork – link to view.
For more meet information, visit the DIAA Indoor Track page.
The DIAA Swimming and Diving Championships will return to the University of Delaware for the first time since 2020. The 2021 championship meet was held at Sussex Academy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022 DIAA Swimming and Diving Meet Schedule:
Tuesday, February 22 – 7:00pm Diving Preliminaries (McKean HS)
Wednesday, February 23 – 6:00pm Boys Swimming Preliminaries
Thursday, February 24 – 6:00pm Girls Swimming Preliminaries
Saturday, February 26 – 11:00am Boys Swimming and Diving Finals, 6:00pm Girls Swimming and Diving Finals
For more meet information, visit the DIAA Swimming and Diving page.
Due to University of Delaware’s host facility guidelines, each student-athlete meet entrant will be permitted two (2) spectators. Spectators need to be aware of the University of Delaware’s swimming spectator event policies and procedures which are listed in their entirety here. All attendees at University of Delaware’s athletic events ages 12 and older, must provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative PCR coronavirus test taken within 72 hours of the event. “Full vaccination” means that guests have received their final COVID-19 vaccine dose at least 14 days in advance of the day of the game. Authentic proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test will be accepted as long as the test was taken within 72 hours of the day of the game through a medical or accredited company; please note that “at home tests” will not be accepted.
The University of Delaware has developed a digital system to allow external visitors to upload their COVID-19 vaccination or negative PCR COVID-19 test results before attending a UD-sponsored event. The Visitor Events Health Pass replaces the need for visitors to show paper copies or photo images of vaccination or test records when entering an event. The pass is integrated with the online UD Daily Health Check. To expedite event entry, fans should visit covidcheck.udel.edu in advance of event day and upload your proof of vaccine or negative test to the Visitor Events Health Pass, fill out the UD Daily Health Check on the day of the game, and show your green event ticket at the gate for entry. Fans wishing to show paper copies or photo images of vaccination or test records can still do so, in combination with a green check mark from the UD Daily Health Check, for entry at the event.
Tickets for each swimming session will cost $10.00. The meet will be livestreamed on NFHSNetwork for fans to watch live.
The DIAA 2022 Individual Wrestling Championship will be held on February 25-26 at Cape Henlopen High School. Session One Preliminary Round will begin on Friday, February 25 at 4pm. The second consolation round will begin at 10:00am on Saturday, February 26. The fifth place round will begin at 5:00pm on Saturday, February 26 with the championship finals to follow. A full championship schedule can be found here. The DIAA Wrestling Committee will meet on Sunday February 20th to seed the championship and the brackets will be released. The brackets and other championship information will be posted on the DIAA Wrestling sport page. Live meet results will be available on TrackWrestling throughout the championship and it will also be streamed on NFHSNetwork.
Tickets will be available for purchase through GoFan on February 21st and ticket prices are as follows:
Session One: $5.00
Session Two: $6.00
Session Three: $7.00
No cash tickets will be sold onsite and all tickets must be purchased through GoFan.
The 2022 DIAA Basketball Championships will be hosted by the higher seeded team through the quarterfinals. The Boys and Girls semifinals and finals will return to the University of Delaware for the first time since 2019. The 2020 championship was not played due to the COVID-19 health pandemic and the 2021 basketball championships were hosted at Dover High School. Both the DIAA boys basketball committee and the DIAA girls basketball committee will meet on Friday, February 25th to seed each 24 team tournament. Tickets will be available for purchase through GoFan after the seeding meetings and more information will be available once the brackets are released. The DIAA Boys and Girls Basketball championship dates are as follows:
Tuesday, March 1 – Boys Round 1
Wednesday, March 2 – Girls Round 1
Thursday, March 3 – Boys Round 2
Friday, March 4 – Girls Round 2
Saturday, March 5 – Boys Quarterfinals
Monday, March 7 – Girls Quarterfinals
Wednesday, March 9 – Girls Semifinals (at University of Delaware)
Thursday, March 10 – Boys Semifinals (at University of Delaware)
Friday, March 11 – Girls Finals (at University of Delaware)
Saturday, March 12 – Boys Finals (at University of Delaware)
DIAA Unified Basketball Championship schedule:
Thursday, February 24 – Unified Committee Seeding Meeting
Monday, February 28 – Quarterfinals
Monday, March 7 – Semifinals
Friday, March 11 – Finals (before the Girls Finals at University of Delaware)
Spectators interested in attending any championship games at the University of Delaware should be aware of the basketball spectator event policies and procedures which have been previously outlined. The spectator event policies are listed in their entirety here.
Media
Only media with current and issued DIAA 2021-2022 media credentials will be permitted entry to events. Media should contact DIAA in advance to request live broadcast at any event. DIAA will notify member schools when requests have been approved.
For state tournaments, broadcast request media should contact the executive director.
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