The NJSIAA has pushed back winter sports to now start on a staggered schedule beginning in January, see chart below.<\/p>\n
NJSIAA has released its COVID-19 guidelines for the winter season – Click here to review.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sport <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Practice Start <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Competition Start <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Competition End <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Basketball, Fencing, Cheerleading and Dance Team<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Jan. 11th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Jan. 26th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Mar. 6th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Swimming and Winter Track & Field<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Feb. 1st<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Feb. 16th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Mar. 27th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Gymnastics, Girls Volleyball and Wrestling<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Mar. 1st<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Mar. 16th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Apr. 24th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Virtual Contact Date<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Basketball, Fencing, Cheerleading and Dance team<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Dec. 14th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Swimming, Winter Track & Field<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Jan. 11th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Gymnastics, Girls Volleyball, Wrestling<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Feb. 1st<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NJSIAA has pushed back winter sports to now start on a staggered schedule beginning in January, see chart below. NJSIAA has released its COVID-19 guidelines for the winter season – Click here to review. Sport Practice Start Competition Start Competition End Basketball, Fencing, Cheerleading and Dance Team Jan. 11th Jan. 26th Mar. 6th Swimming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lion-pride-archive","7":"entry","8":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 07:17:17","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18257,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions\/18257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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Date: December 7, 2020<\/strong>
RE: Return-to-Play Update \u2013 Virtual Contact Period
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The NJSIAA Sports Advisory Task Force is pleased to provide the following virtual contact periods for each sport listed below. This task force recognizes the importance of socially and emotionally engaging student-athletes with their coaches and teammates, while also helping them to prepare physically and mentally for their upcoming season. However, it is important for all coaches to remember that participation in any sport that is in season must take priority over virtual workouts or virtual meetings for any out of season sport.
Below is a summary of virtual contact, practice start and season end dates for each sport:<\/p>\n\n\n
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