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)