Preseason “Down Time” - Beginning August 1 for all fall sports, March 1 until the start of practice for spring sports and 14 calendar days prior to the earliest start of practice for each winter sport:

a. No open gyms which involve that sport or sport-specific camps or clinics shall occur at the school or be sponsored elsewhere by the school; and no competition (intrasquad or intersquad) between groups that resemble school teams (more than three [or four] students of grades 7-12 of the district) may occur in that sport at any school facility or any other location with any of that school district's personnel present. Conditioning, weight training and one voluntary four-player sport specific skill group with coaching is permitted, but no open gyms or rotations to other sport specific activity with coaches’ present is permitted during the preseason downtime.

b. Regardless of what they are called or where they are held, coach-conducted running or swimming sessions which involve the structure of distances and timing and/or teach sport specific technique shall not be provided even on a voluntary basis during the down time prior to cross country, track & field or swimming & diving seasons if they are conducted by the school coaches of those sports.

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