High School Sports

After years of lockdowns and school closings, almost 320,000 fewer high school kids came back to sports in the past season.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — One Wisconsin school district built a new football field. In Iowa, a high school weight room is getting a renovation. Another in Kentucky is replacing two outdoor tracks — all of this funded by the billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief Congress sent to schools this year.

High school athletes in Los Angeles county will have a mandatory weekly coronavirus test, even those who are fully vaccinated, stated the county Department of Public Health in a revised policy, effective September 1.

Two new bills in Ohio would require students to participate in sports corresponding with their birth gender.

Parents and student are preparing to march Friday on the Michigan state capitol to protest the state’s coronavirus ban on school sports.

Female athletes in high school and colleges are at a disadvantage when they must compete against biological men who “identify” as women.

The New Hampshire House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on Tuesday on HB 1251, legislation to protect female athletic programs from men, or transgender women, who want to compete in girls’ and women’s sporting events.

The U.S. Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will investigate a Connecticut transgender athletic policy that allows biological males to compete against biological females in school sports.

The association that governs the state of New Jersey’s school sports says it will not require a doctor’s note or any other type of proof to allow students who claim to be transgender to compete against naturally gendered students in school sports.

Frustration abounds in an east Texas school district over who will pay for a nearly half-million dollar high school football stadium jumbotron that administrators recently pitched and the board of trustees approved to purchase out of school bond money until taxpayers pushed back.

Wednesday, Chicago’s United Center hosted the top high school basketball players across the country to compete against each other in the McDonald’s All-American game. After the game, a large brawl broke out inside the United Center. Security eventually broke up

A north Texas transgender high school wrestler, transitioning from female to male, won a girls’ regional championship when the female opponent forfeited the match over the weekend.

A Texas school district, saddled with a new football stadium where construction costs soared to roughly $72 million, sold its “naming rights” to a sporting goods giant for $2.5 million.

Riverside University High School (Milwaukee, WI) junior guard Melvin Lee is listed at 5’5″ 150 pounds. Although considered small for the sport of basketball, Lee showed his lack of height cannot stop him from getting to the rim. On this particular play, the

A viral video on Facebook shows a high school football team interfering with its opponent’s high school marching band as it started to play the national anthem.

Competitive cheerleading could soon be recognized an official sport in high schools in California.

In 2009 the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League championship featured 30 competitors. In 2015 the same championship featured 5,134 and “more than 20,000 spectators.”