WIAA board to consider proposal
By Greg Seubert
A decision on fall high school sports could come as soon as Thursday, July 23.
The WIAA Board of Control has scheduled a special meeting for 9 a.m. that day to address Wisconsin’s fall sports season. The WIAA, headquartered in Stevens Point, oversees high school sports in Wisconsin.
The meeting’s agenda includes a proposal submitted by school administrators from southwestern Wisconsin to move fall sports to the spring and shift spring sports to the summer for the 2020-21 school year.
The proposal is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Practices for fall sports are scheduled to get underway in August. First days of practice are Tuesday, Aug. 4, for football; Monday, Aug. 10, for girls’ golf; Tuesday, Aug. 11, for girls’ swimming and girls’ tennis; and Monday, Aug. 17, for cross country, volleyball and boys’ soccer.
Not all fall sports are offered at each area high school.
Fall sports offered at each school
• Waupaca and Hortonville – football, volleyball, cross country, boys’ soccer and girls’ golf;
• Iola-Scandinavia – football, volleyball, cross country and boys’ soccer;
• Manawa and Weyauwega-Fremont – football, volleyball and cross country;
• New London and Clintonville – football, volleyball, cross country, boys’ soccer, girls’ tennis and girls’ swimming.