Mission Valley Athletic League

The Mission Valley Athletic League (commonly abbreviated MVAL) is a collaboration of 7 schools in the Tri-Cities area of Fremont, Newark and Union City, California. The MVAL is part of the Bay Shore Conference in the North Coast Section (NCS).

There are seven participating schools in this athletic league. In autumn the league sponsors football, girls' and boys' cross-country, girls' tennis, girls' and boys' water polo and girls' volleyball. In winter, the league sponsors girls' and boys' basketball, girls' and boys' soccer, and wrestling. In spring, the league sponsors girls' and boys' track and field, baseball, softball, boys' tennis,volleyball, and badminton, as well as girls' and boys' swimming and golf .

The North Coast Section maintains a classification system based on school enrollment as the primary determinant of qualification for certain sports competitions, specifically the NCS playoffs brackets. This classification system is updated by the NCS Board of Governors every year based on the prior year's CBEDS enrollment report. The sports of baseball, football, soccer, softball, track and field, and boys’ volleyball use these rankings within the NCS playoff structures.

For example, in the case of football, out of the seven schools, James Logan High School and Newark Memorial High School qualify for the NCS 4-A tournaments in football. Four schools, American High School, Irvington High School, Mission San Jose High School and Washington High School are eligible for NCS 3-A tournaments, and one school, John F. Kennedy High School is eligible at the NCS 2-A level.

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