The North Coast Section (NCS) is a part of the

California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the U.S. state of California. CIF membership includes both public and private high schools. Unlike most other state organizations, it does not have a s ...

, governing the eastern portion of the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

, up along the northern coast of the state of

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, from Fremont in the south to Crescent City in the north. It also governs the private schools in the city of

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...

. Due to this split in regions, the section is split in two for some championships, including

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Governance

The section is governed by a board of managers, whose voting members include representatives from member leagues, superintendents, school board associations and private schools. There are 155 full member schools, assigned to leagues or conferences according to NCS Alignment and Classification Bylaws developed by the schools. In addition, currently 20 schools have affiliated with the league to play as independents without the benefit of a league to guarantee opponents.

Conference and League Structure

Competition is broken down into a system of conferences and leagues which seek to organize schools first by size/competitiveness, and then by geographic proximity. * North Coast Section **

Bay Area Conference The Bay Area Conference is a school athletic conference located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The league is a member of the North Coast Section, one of ten sections that comprise the California Interscholastic Federation. Leagues The athletic ...

- 27 schools *** Bay Counties League - 7 schools *** Bay Counties League - West - 6 schools *** Bay Counties League - East - 7 schools *** Bay Counties League - Central - 7 schools ** Bay Shore Conference - 33 schools ***

Mission Valley Athletic League The Mission Valley Athletic League (commonly abbreviated MVAL) is a collaboration of eight schools, of which seven are in the Tri-Cities area of Fremont, Newark and Union City, California and one is in Hayward. The MVAL is part of the Bay Shor ...

- 8 schools *** Tri-County Athletic League - 13 schools *** West Alameda County Conference - 12 schools **

Coastal Mountain Conference The Coastal Mountain Conference or CMC is an athletic conference for secondary schools in Mendocino, Lake, Napa and Sonoma Counties that competes in the CIF North Coast Section, North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation. Mem ...

- 24 schools *** North Central League I - 8 schools *** North Central League II - 7 schools *** North Central League III - 9 schools ** *** Humboldt-Del Norte League - 12 schools **** Big 5 – 5 schools **** Little 7 - 7 schools ** Redwood Empire Conference - 29 schools *** Marin County Athletic League - 9 schools *** North Bay League - 13 schools *** Vine Valley Athletic League - 7 schools ** Valley Conference - 30 schools *** Bay Valley Athletic League - 6 schools *** Diablo Athletic League - 13 schools *** East Bay Athletic League - 11 schools ** *** Non-League Affiliate Member Schools - 20 schools **** Archbishop Hanna High School (Sonoma) **** Averroes High School (Fremont) **** Cornerstone Christian School (Antioch) **** Cristo Rey De La Salle East Bay High School (Oakland) ****

Developing Virtue Secondary School Developing Virtue Secondary School (DVSS, ) is a private Buddhist school located in the town of Talmage, California, and the first Buddhist high school founded in the United States. The school is part of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, one o ...

(Ukiah) ****

El Sobrante Christian School El Sobrante Christian School is a private school, private K-12 Christian school located in El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California, United States. References

Christian schools in California Educational institutions established in 19 ...

(Richmond) **** Emery Secondary School (Emeryville) ****

The Marin School The Marin School (TMS) is a private high school located in San Rafael, California. The school is named after Marin County in which it is located. History The Marin School, formerly known as North Bay Secondary School then as North Bay Marin Scho ...

(Mill Valley) **** Napa Christian (Napa) **** North Bay Christian Academy (Novato) **** North Hills Christian (Vallejo) **** Pacific Union College Prep (Angwin) ****

Patten Academy of Christian Education The Patten Academy of Christian Education (PACE) is a private K-12 Christian school located at 2430 Coolidge Ave. in Oakland, California. It is governed by the Christian Evangelical Churches of America (CECA). PACE was founded in 1944 by Dr. Beb ...

(Oakland) ****

Pleasant Hill Adventist Academy Pleasant Hill Adventist Academy (PHA) was founded in 1953 as a Seventh-day Adventist Elementary and Junior High School in Pleasant Hill, California. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Chris ...

(Pleasant Hill) ****

The Quarry Lane School The Quarry Lane School is a private, college-preparatory and International Baccalaureate school in California that offers education for students from preschool to twelfth grade. The School was founded by Sabri Arac, who is the current Head of ...

(Dublin) **** Rio Lindo Adventist Academy (Healdsburg) **** Stellar Prep (Oakland) **** Summerfield Waldorf of Santa Rosa **** Summit K2 **** Summit Tamalpais ** *** Single-sport waiver schools ****

California School for the Deaf, Fremont The California School for the Deaf is a school for deaf children in Fremont, California. The school educates deaf children from all over Northern California. Its campus in Fremont is adjacent to the campus of the California School for the Blind ...

(football) ****

Oakland Military Institute Oakland Military Institute, formally the ''Oakland Military Institute College Preparatory Academy'', is a charter school run by the California Military Department's Youth and Community Programs Task Force in partnership with the Oakland Unified Sc ...

(football, provisional WACC member) ****

San Marin High School San Marin High School is a public high school located in Novato, California, in the United States. History San Marin High School opened in 1968 in Novato. Robert Vieth became principal in 2007, after the former principal was dismissed by the ...

(Novato) (football, provisional NBL member) ****

Valley Christian School The Valley Christian Schools (VCCS) are private Christian schools located in Dublin, California, US. Valley Christian Schools offers a college preparatory education to students ranging from preschool through twelfth grade. VCS is located south ...

(Dublin) (football)

Playoff Structure

The section employs 5 different classes, 4A, 3A, 2A, A, and B. Depending on the sport, the "classes" may be represented by Divisions: I, II, III, IV, V, & VI, with DI being the largest schools, and DVI being the smallest. Some sports, including football, split the 3A and 2A sections into East Bay, for most of the Section's Bay Area schools, and Redwood Empire, for schools from

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north to the Oregon border. The section has championships in

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baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

, cross country,

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

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and

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tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

, and

wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Notes

External links

* {{Official website High school sports in California Organizations based in California High school sports associations in the United States Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area California Interscholastic Federation sections