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The city's new Public Schools Athletic League executive director Danny Harris spoke with News 12's Greg Thompson about his vision for a league that serves 46,000 high school students a year.

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PSAL's new senior executive director talks about his vision for the league

A familiar face around the city's public schools athletic league. Danny Harris worked for the PSAL from 2004 to 2021 before returning in December as its new senior executive director in a news 12 exclusive. He is sitting down with our Greg Thompson to talk about his vision for a league that serves 46,000 high school students each year because of the history with PCL and a lot of the great people who are still involved in the PSC, I was able to kind of jump back in and then hit the ground running. Some of the changes have already been obvious like hosting the first college exposure showcase for basketball players and doubling the number of varsity football competition levels. One of the things that we've prioritized is receiving feedback from our coaching community, from the athletic directors and that really helped us to develop what we're going to be going with this year, with the four divisions. The Lehman High School long wants that sort of partnership to be the key to everything the PSA does including this fall. When the city's plan to house asylum seekers on Randall's Island is expected to impact field space for soccer games. We do have contingency plans. We have open communication with the, the director of the Mayor's Office of Sports. We're a team to deal with the challenges the best we can. While plenty of ps coaches, parents and fans have worried about participation dropping over the last few years. The Department of Education data actually says the numbers are right about where they were before COVID still. Harris admits it is an area where they could do some work. We're looking at different avenues and pathways for students like through e sports and robotics. And you know, we're even considering pickle ball and other emerging sports as future opportunities that can bring in other students to participate, that includes off the field for years. People have been frustrated by the PSS website and general lack of reliable information on the internet. There's also a community of individuals that do managers on the sidelines and there are kids that are doing data analytics now. So we want to amplify all of those different communities and bring them together, which is what Harris thinks the PSA should be about. If something hasn't happened yet, we are working constantly to improve. So stay tuned because we're constantly rolling out and looking to improve our program saying that everything they do will focus on creating opportunities for as many students as possible. Greg Thompson News 12

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