2011-2012 

 

TRACK 

 

Aug. 1, 2011 – Aug. 21, 2011 Dead Period 

 

Aug. 22, 2011 – Dec. 31, 2011 Weight training and conditioning permitted.  No open 

facilities and no practice. 

 

Jan. 1, 2012 – Feb. 12, 2012 Weight training, conditioning, open facilities permitted.  No 

practice 

 

February 13, 2012 Practice begins – Must practice 3 days before preseason 

scrimmages.  After team is eliminated from tournament 

series, coaches may be involved in a coaching capacity 

with students in their school in summer programs or on 

non-school teams. 

 

March 12, 2012 Date of First Contest & Deadline to file Eligibility & 

Schedule online. 

 

End of school until June 23, 2012 No practice regulations 

 

June 24, 2012 – July 7, 2012 Dead Period 

 

July 8, 2012 – July 29, 2012 No practice regulations 

 

 

 

Definitions 

 

Practice:  Coach and player(s) together with instruction, teaching, coaching, etc. 

 

Open Facilities:  Schools may use school facilities for students in their building prior to or at the conclusion of the 

school day.  Coaches may serve in a supervisory capacity only.  There is no instruction, no teaching, no coaching, 

etc.  Coaches may not participate or play in any manner.  It is a free play type atmosphere. 

 

Weight training/conditioning:  Must be a generic type program that would be beneficial to all students and not sport 

specific.  Exception:  In baseball and softball, players may throw to condition arms. 

 

Dead Period:  No coaching, observing, or contact between coach and players in sport involved.  There is no practice, 

no open facilities, and no weight training/conditioning. 

 

Preseason Scrimmages:  A school cannot practice with or scrimmage another school until both schools have 

practiced a minimum of three days.  A school may have a maximum of 4 preseason scrimmages or 2 preseason 

scrimmage dates or 1 preseason scrimmage date and 2 preseason scrimmages. 

 

Practice During the School Day:  All athletic practice during the regular hours of any school day shall conform to the 

same rules, regulations, and seasons as corresponding athletic practice outside the school day. 

 

Tournament:  All tournaments shall be held on consecutive days with no other regular season games being played 

during the tournament unless permission is granted by the Executive director.  A tournament is defined as a 

competition of three or more teams and three or more games, matches, etc., which progress to determine a winner. 

 

Multiple Contests:  In all individual sports (cross country, golf, track and field, tennis, and wrestling) individuals 

accompanied by a coach may enter varsity competition at a different site on the same time and date, and this will 

count as two days on the school’s schedule. 

 

Beginning Sport:  Any school that is starting a sport for the first time may have five days of off-season practice prior 

to the first season the sport begins.  This would apply to girls’ volleyball, girls’ soccer,  soccer, baseball, girls’ softball, 

and track and field.  It would not apply to football and basketball since schools are allowed 10 days in the off-season 

in football and 5 days in the off-season in basketball. 

 

Maximum number of contests:  11 dates (each meet counts as 1 date)