TSSAA Sports Calender

[chitownimport]

The dates have been set. See the TSSAA web site for more details

 

SOFTBALL

July 30, 2007-Aug. 19, 2007 Dead Period

 

Aug. 20, 2007-Oct. 28, 2007 Weight training and conditioning permitted. No open

facilities and no practice.

 

Oct. 29, 2007-Nov. 18, 2007 Dead Period

 

Nov. 19, 2007-Dec. 31, 2007 Weight training and conditioning permitted. No open

facilities and no practice.

 

Jan. 1, 2008-Feb. 11, 2008 Weight training, conditioning, open facilities permitted. No

practice

 

Feb. 11, 2008 Practice begins. 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.

 

End of school until June 22, 2008 No practice regulations

 

June 22, 2008-July 5, 2008 Dead Period

 

July 7, 2008-July 26, 2008 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.

 

50 % Rule: Applies to basketball, baseball, and softball. Participation (includes practice) during the school year on a

non-school team prior to the school season by students that will play the following season on the high school team is

limited to 50% of the number of players required to play the game (5). Only the specified number of students

participating on a non-school team prior to the school season may be placed on the same high school roster the

following season. Those students cannot be interchanged on the school team roster.

 

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, basketball, soccer, baseball,

girls’ softball, and track and field. It would not apply to football since schools are allowed 10 days in the off season.

 

Maximum number of contests: 34 games, 5 tournaments with each tournament counting as 4 games.

[dore83]

QUOTE(Hoganknows @ Mar 17 2007 - 06:30 PM) 826415566[/snapback]Like I said in the baseball forum--Coaches are to blame for all the changes--TSSAA had to do something.

Basketball needed to be hit hard--they started all this mess years ago with AAU Basketball--now everyone is paying the price.

 

 

What mess??? did they (AAU Basketball) start? You lost me here. The only mess I see is the TSSAA making a mess by trying to make parental decisions that should be left to parents.

[houser05]

How does this affect a school with nice indoor hitting and fielding facilites?

What is an open gym?

Can a dad take his daughter, or a couple of girls into a hitting facilty and let them work out?

or is this illegal.