Physicals must be dated after May 1, 2008. You will not be able to complete any summer practices unless you have a physical. If you show up to summer practice without a physical you will be sent at home until a physical has been completed.
PLEASE READ:
New Physical Requirements for Incoming 9th Graders
Sports Physical Rule Change: Key Points
Sports Physical Rule Change Answers to Common Questions
Download the Interscholastic sport examination Form (for 9th graders)
Download the Physical Form
Download the MNPS Certificate Approving Athletic Participation
May 3:- Vanderbilt physicals
In coming 9th graders must have a physical completed by their physician and not at the mass physical at Vanderbilt.
June 2-20: conditioning on your own. Weight training and conditioning no open facilities. This means no 'captain's practice'. Coach McClain will give a sample conditioning program later in the school year.
June 22-July 5: Dead period. No team practice or conditioning.
Summer Practices
July 8 and 10: Practice @ West End Middle School 6:00-7:30pm
July 15 and 17: Practice @ West End Middle School 6:00-7:30pm
July 21-24: Team camp @ Belmomt University - 5:00-8:00pm. Cost: $135/player
Official Fall Practice begins July 28th.
July 28 and 29: Thyouts @ West End Middle School 6:00-8:00pm
July 30-August 1: Practice @ West End Middle School 6:00-8:00pm
August 2: Parent/Player/Coaches Field Clean up/Sign Up for games 9:00am-12:00pm
August 4-8: Practice @ West End Middle School 5:30-7:30pm
DefinitionsPractice: 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, 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: 16 matches, 2 tournaments with each tournament counting as 2 matches.
School begins on August 11; we will practice Monday-Friday each week from 3:30-5:30pm @ West End Middle School.
Question? email Coach McClain