WIAA adds fourth sports season

RENTON – Last week, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association created a fourth sports season to accommodate concerns over close contact high school fall sports like football and wrestling. This week, it moved all fall sports to early spring and approved four sports to have “alternate seasons” for the fall.

In a press release July 29, the association announced it had approved alternate seasons for cross country, slowpitch softball, golf and tennis in the fall. Fall sports, or “Season 1,” are tentatively scheduled September 7 through November 1.

Alternate seasons can occur when circu...