The Arizona Interscholastic Association, which oversees high school sports in the state, decided the best way to handle the loss of control its coaches have when their players participate in club sports is to make the high school program be like club sports. The AIA's legislative council voted overwhelmingly to approve a measure that would essentially allow year-round coaching and practices by sport, rather than, say, football season ending when football is over, basketball season ending with basketball is over, and softball season ending when softball is over. Though it's safe to say -- and it was said in the discussion of this vote -- that some schools turned away from that model a while ago. “For larger schools, it’s not really changing anything,” Williams said. Here the latest roundup I can find of state high school association rules on out-of-season practices; it was put together by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association as it mulls making a similar change to Arizona's.

Source: Forbes March 04, 2017 22:49 UTC