2023
First Legal Day of Practice (Week 0 – July 31; Week 1 – August 7)
- No Contact
- Helmets and mouth guards are permitted
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Second Legal Day of Practice
- No Contact
- Helmets and mouth guards are permitted
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Third Legal Day of Practice
- Contact above the waist is permitted (form tackling)
- Helmets, mouth guards and shoulder pads are permitted
- Contact with blocking sleds and tackling dummies may begin
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Fourth Legal Day of Practice
- Contact above the waist is permitted (form tackling)
- Helmets, mouth guards and shoulder pads are permitted
- Contact with blocking sleds and tackling dummies may continue
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Fifth Legal Day of Practice
- Contact above the waist is permitted (form tackling)
- Helmets, mouth guards and shoulder pads are permitted
- Contact with blocking sleds and tackling dummies may continue
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Sixth Legal Day of Practice
- Full person-to-person contact may begin
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Sunday (Day 7)
- No practice allowed
Seventh Legal Day of Practice (Week 0 – August 7; Week 1 – August 14)
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Eighth Legal Day of Practice
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Ninth Legal Day of Practice
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Tenth Legal Day of Practice
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Eleventh Legal Day of Practice
- Scrimmage against another school is permissible on this date.
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Twelfth Legal Day of Practice
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Sunday (Day 14)
- No practice allowed
Thirteenth Legal Day of Practice (Week 0 – August 14; Week 1 – August 21)
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Fourteenth Legal Day of Practice
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
- One practice, four hours of total coach/athlete contact allowed; maximum of three hours of physical activity is allowed
Fifteenth Legal Day of Practice
- First day schools are allowed to lift weights/walk-through in the morning and then have one practice, maximum of three hours after school.
- Full person-to-person contact is allowed
First Legal Playing Date (Week 0 – August 17; Week 1 – August 24)
It is intended that the local school could have more than 14 days of acclimatization and the local administrator, because of heat, Labor Day, or other matters, would have the choice whether or not to practice. A weekday is considered Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.