Football Preseason Practice Schedule

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.