Classes 3-A, 2-A and 1-A in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association would be divided into three divisions.

Classes 3-A and 2-A currently are divided into North and South leagues, while the 1-A has four divisions -- East, Central, Southern and West.

The 3-A, which currently contains only 11 schools for football and 14 for most other sports, would expand to 16 teams.

The Southern 3-A (consisting of Pahrump Valley, Faith Lutheran, Moapa Valley, Boulder City and Virgin Valley) would remain unchanged, but the Northern 3-A would be realigned into:

3-A Northeast League: Churchill County Fallon, Dayton, Elko, Fernley, Winnemucca Lowry, Spring Creek.

3-A Northwest League: Hug, South Tahoe, Sparks, Truckee and Reno Wooster.

In the 2-A, Laughlin and Tonopah which had been 2-A members before dropping down to 1-A two years ago would be restored to that classification, which would expand from 14 schools (including Yerington Rite of Passage and Independence, both boys-only schools) to 20.

Laughlin was allowed to join the 1-A in all sports by the NIAA even though it is well above the 1-A enrollment ceiling of 169. Tonopah dropped down at the same time because it fell below that enrollment figure for a second straight year.

Private schools Las Vegas Mountain View Christian and Lake Mead Christian Academy would be moved up from 1-A to 2-A.

Additionally, Carlin -- the Northern 1-A's dominant program in football since it dropped down from 2-A for the 2002 season after its enrollment fell below 169 -- would be restored to the 2-A.

West Wendover and Ely White Pine, both of which have been North-South "swing" teams in recent years but currently play in the Southern 2-A, would be moved back to join four Northern Nevada teams.

Under the proposal, these 2-A leagues would be created:

Southern: Lake Mead, Laughlin, Lincoln County, The Meadows, Mountain View, Needles, Tonopah.

Northeast: Battle Mountain, Carlin, Independence, Lovelock, West Wendover, White Pine.

Northwest: Incline, Hawthorne, North Tahoe (a 3-A school that is playing as an independent in football this year and expects to join the 2-A next school year), Rite of Passage, Silver Stage, Whittell and Yerington.

The 1-A, which currently has 27 schools (and several other new schools on two-year probationary status), would become a 24-team, three-league classification. The proposed leagues are:

Southern: Beatty, Las Vegas Calvary Chapel, Indian Springs, Sandy Valley Keystone Academy, Pahranagat Valley Alamo, Spring Mountain, Las Vegas Trinity Christian and Henderson Warren-Walker.

Northeast: Austin, Eureka, Jackpot, Lund, McDermitt, Owyhee, Round Mountain and Wells.

Northwest: Coleville, Gabbs, Gerlach, Pyramid Lake, Sage Ridge, Sierra Lutheran, Smith Valley and Virginia City.

The committee did not make any recommendations on playoff structures, which would have to be determined in subsequent board of bontrol and realignment-committee meetings.

It did suggest that the 4-A, 2-A and 1-A return to an eight-team state-tournament structure while the 3-A retain the four-team setup that currently is in use by all four classifications.