Its the annual Dead Week for Fall Sports. There will be NO Contact between school sports staff and student athletes. Its a week to recoup from the summer workouts and get ready for the upcoming school year.
On Monday the year officially starts. Fall, practices will get underway. Now, Football players will not be allowed to make full contact and will be forced to go back to shorts for the first week. Gotta get used to that heat. I mean, its been a full week since they were in full pads going at it a various team camps. All sarcasm aside, dead week means we are one week closer to getting it all going, for real. We are starting a week later this year, Jamborees are July 17th and Football Friday Nights Start on the 24th.
Its not just football. The same timeline, for workouts apply to all fall sports. Cross-Country Runners, Softball Players, Fall Golfers, Tennis Players, and Soccer athletes can all get going on Monday.
For many folks, there has not been a whole lot of time off. Between summer workouts, camps, and in some cases “summer ball” high school sports is almost a year round commitment. Especially for multi-sport athletes. But, most would not want it any other way. I can tell you from experience those days fly by.
Most schools will start in a couple weeks, in most cases just before the first competition.
Its the “calm before the storm” but a STORM that I cant wait to arrive.
