Coops allow school districts to be more creative with opportunities for students. However, co-ops are less than ideal. The term “co-op” (also coop) is short for “cooperative sponsorship of a sport.” The outcome is an agreement among schools that allows teams to field squads of student-athletes from two or three schools. Coops are a trend in scholastic sports. Coop rules dictate that no more than 3 schools merge into one team. So, it would not be possible with the rules in place in 2014 to make a single coop team in any sport that involves students from all PPS high schools. To form one “all-star” quad-A team sounds like a great idea, but it is not permitted. Example: The Northgate School District has a swim pool and a swim team and students that go to Avalon High School are able to join No