History
Louisiana became the first state in the nation to include a wheelchair division in its state track and field competition for disabled student athletes in 1990.
Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita hit Southern Louisiana at the beginning of the 2005 high school football season. The evacuation of New Orleans and other communities forced dozens of high schools to close for months, and several campuses were damaged or destroyed by flooding and wind damage. The football season was not canceled, but several games were postponed or canceled. Some schools in the disaster area were forced to withdraw from competition. Most public schools in Orleans Parish, St. Bernard Parish, and Plaquemines Parish were so badly damaged that they were forced to cancel their entire school year.
Other disaster-area schools combined to form joint teams in fall of 2005 and spring of 2006. One the more noteworthy joint teams came from the Archbishop Rummel Transitional School. Rummel is a traditionally all-boys Catholic school in Metairie, Louisiana. But, in October, the campus welcomed transfer students from other disaster area schools, including girls. As such, Rummel became a co-educational school for the remainder of the school year, and the previously all-boys school fielded a girls athletics program known as the "Lady Raiders". Public schools around the state accused the Archdiocese of New Orleans of assembling the Lady Raiders as an elite girls team, drafting top athletes from storm-damaged girls schools around the Greater New Orleans area.
By the 2006 school year, most of the affected LHSAA schools were able to compete under their own school teams.
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