PIERRE — The South Dakota High School Activities board of directors has a couple of new goals for the new school year as well as some goals that have been held over from last year.

One new goal is to form a committee to study the eligibility of athletes that transfer from one school to another. SDHSAA Executive Director Dan Swartos said during a board meeting Tuesday there has been a disturbing trend of “super teams” being formed through athlete transfers.

Another committee will be formed, Swartos said, with the goal of looking at ways to recruit more athletic coaches. He said the committee will look at ways to work with South Dakota universities and the state Department of Education. The association will also continue its goal of trying to recruit more officials.

SDHSAA will continue to work on organizing an economic impact study. Swartos said gauging the economic impact of state events could lead to contracts for hotels or meals during state events.

Emphasizing the importance of sportsmanship is another goal held over from last year. The association will continue the effort “to clean up behavior at our events,” Swartos said.

Two other holdover goals are the work of a calendar committee which will study when events are held during the school year and a classification committee which will study how decisions are made about placing schools in the right classification to ensure fair and safe competition.