The High School Football Season

School just started last monday. Everyone's still a buzz about all the changes and making their way up the class ladder. You've jumped up to Sophomore which still makes you an underclass student but no longer a Freshman. You kind of know the ropes or at least, enough of it to hang by. Friday is the first big rally of the year to officially start the football season off that friday night. It's athletics but it's also a social event that the whole community gravitates around. The players are all excited for a brand new season and as the seniors have moved on, there are new players stepping up to fill key positions while some starters return as old (actually, one year older) veterans to the field. It's a good fit that high school sports starts with a bang. What better way to begin the new year than the pop of football competition under the bright lights.

High schools these days have all different kinds of schedules. You have year round schools and traditional fall to spring schedules but with start/end dates that can differ by as much as a month. Traditionally, school started after Labor Day but that doesn't really hold any more. Our local school district starts early August now which essentially leaves 2 months for summer break (having started in early June). You generally have a pre-season for football where you are not allowed to have full practice with pads. This consists of working out and training since it can't be formal. You may also work on running plays and learning the general positions. At some point in the late summer break/early school year, you have the tradition to full pads and full practices. This iwll continue until the first game which generally occurs a few weeks after school starts depending on your school's yearly schedule. During the late summer, you may have some jamborees or scrimmage games with other schools outside your league. This is a great way to acclimate to actual speed of the game against real opponents.

An average high school football season is about 10 games in regular season. Typically, this is one game per week for just over 2 months. which covers most of the first quarter of school. Essentially, it will take you about 1 month short of the winter break so we can loosely look at September, October and a touch of November. This is the regular season. If you're team is good enough, you'll go the playoffs which will add a few more weeks to your season depending on how good you are. Generally, the playoffs goes up to 3 additional weeks for an average league. High school football lis generally considered a Fall season sport. It usually overlaps with soccer and a few others which can create conflicts for players good at both. It's rare that a coach will be too excited about allowing players to split duties with another sport especially in a well-filled roster or if the program is pretty serious.

Now the variations and actual season details for your high school may be different but you can generally count on about 10 games of regular season action that encompasses your fall season generally starting in September. Most games are friday night and one thing's for certain, a big part of the fun of high school happens on that night.

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