Are there sports that are one season in HS (typically) but move to a different season for college? 1 sport I can think of I volleyball. My HS (in Massachusetts) plays in the fall, but at the college level it’s a winter sport.

Boys soccer in HS is in the winter (at least for California). In college men's soccer is in fall.

(04-23-2024 02:24 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  Are there sports that are one season in HS (typically ) but move to a different season for college? 1 sport I can think of I volleyball. My HS (in Massachusetts) plays in the fall, but at the college level it’s a winter sport.

Women’s volleyball is in the fall and men’s is in the spring.

KC: my HS didn’t play boys volleyball, but spring WAS the season.

In illinois girls soccer is a spring sport but in college its a fall sport

(04-23-2024 02:33 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  Boys soccer in HS is in the winter (at least for California). In college men's soccer is in fall.

Yes. In Texas, boys' and girls' soccer starts in the winter and ends in the spring. January-April. Gotta have the facilities for football in the fall.

(04-23-2024 06:16 PM)johnintx Wrote:  

(04-23-2024 02:33 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  Boys soccer in HS is in the winter (at least for California). In college men's soccer is in fall.

Yes. In Texas, boys' and girls' soccer starts in the winter and ends in the spring. January-April. Gotta have the facilities for football in the fall.

In Ohio, both boys and girls soccer play in the fall in line with college. We either have their own field to play on or use the football field for games while football uses their own practice field. We do play girls tennis in fall while boys is during the spring (girls at schools who don't have girls teams play with the boys in the spring as we have team competitions, best of 5 with Singles 1-3 and Doubles 1-2, until postseason where it's singles or doubles competing individually). We also play golf in the fall where college does it in the spring.

Arkansas volleyball is fall with championships first week in November for what it is worth.

My memory is far from perfect, especially relating to high school athletics, but I think at one time girls soccer was fall in Arkansas but male and female championships are in early May now.

Oklahoma plays girls fast pitch softball in the fall, but they turn around and play slow pitch softball in the spring. They also offer fall baseball for schools without football (primarily smaller schools) in addition to regular spring baseball.

Boys and girls soccer in SC are both in the spring. February-May. Boys tennis is in the spring in SC, girls tennis in the fall.

So much focus on football it is hard to get any publicity for smaller sports. Also the field maintenance if you don’t have a turf field is expensive. If it rains hard on a Friday night a good chunk of fields are almost unusable for a long time afterwards.

That’s why over the last 10-15 years there have been so many more postponements and delays of high school football games because of rain. Every time there’s more than a 30-40% chance of rain/thunderstorms 4 days before Friday night games get moved to Thursday or other days. And in South Carolina (and probably other Southern states) one or two football gates is an entire budget for a couple sports.

Spring season is packed here. You have both soccers, baseball, softball, boys and girls lacrosse at a lot of schools, boys tennis, and once you get to Florida and Georgia you have flag football for girls too.

It’s amazing how lacrosse has developed. I graduated HS in 2010 and only a couple schools in our area had club teams. You could barely find a lacrosse stick anywhere. Now 56 schools have boys lacrosse in South Carolina (majority of schools in the Lower State) and it is growing each year.

Lack of officials is the common theme, I've heard.