The University Interscholastic League legislative council finished up its fall meetings last week and denied, rejected or decided to take no action on a number of proposals, including those about adding new UIL sanctioned sports.

The members of the committee decided against adding boys volleyball, lacrosse for boys or girls and girls flag football as sanctioned sports. The explanation for it was that the numbers wouldn’t justify the split. 26 states have added lacrosse and the sport is growing, but the committee decided that demand for the sport is not at a level yet in Texas where it would require the UIL to address it.

The UIL also declined proposals that would move soccer to the fall and volleyball to the spring in the athletic calendar, splitting up Class 1A and Class 2A baseball and the addition of wheelchair tennis as a sanctioned sport.

While the UIL declined to advance those proposals, they also passed a number of amendments as well. The council approved amendments that increased the officials’ fee for softball and baseball tournaments, another that allows basketball teams to participate in three games during the Thanksgiving break if they don’t participate in tournaments, another that changes the number of teams that advance in each event of the regional tennis tournament in state to the top three, another that gives coaches the opportunity to put two of their students in a UIL approved all-star game and a final that brought the UIL in alignment with the United States Golf Association with what electronic equipment can be used during tournaments.