Start date(s) for High School baseball '08

Our "official" start date is March 1, but some kids on the varsity team have setup time at a local facility and are having "unofficial" practice starting this week.

Official practice starts Feb 11th

Our off season started in July and will end Feb 9th.

Here in Ocala, Florida tryouts and practice begins tomorrow.

I believe my sons is Feb 11 also here on West Coast. they started conditioning(for those that dont condition in the off season , thinking conditioning means getting into shape) conditioning is to see who already is in shape.I like you start and stop dates caoch May thats about it for the serious players.

Finally it's here. Time to stock up on my seeds and get a new score book.
PLAY BALL

Practice starts at 3:05 Monday

Public schools in Texas can start practice Jan. 25th. First regular season games can start Feb. 18th.
Private schools can start practice Jan. 14th.

Tryouts are the first week in March for public schools in PA. Official games start the week of March 24. Two scrimmages can be played before the start of the season. Our state athletic governing body just clamped down on overlapping seasons.

My son's HS starts next Saturday, January 19th.

In New Jersey the first day of HS practice is March 7th and I believe my son's first game is on April 9th.

In MinneSNOWta, official practices start in mid-March (indoors in the gym because of the snow on the field), but unofficial "captains practices" start in mid-January. The first game is scheduled for April 4th.

MN-Mom:

What a difference weather can make. I saw the start date for MN and then looked at my son's HS. They have their 21st game scheduled the day you open in MN.

We all talk about the realities of recruiting, but I can't help think about how much different development is with good weather.

Our first practice date was jan 1st. Our first game is mid feb. Gotta love the warm weather

Kentucky starts on the 15th of February. Yet, the first games aren't until March 27th. KHSAA has a rule that baseball can't, officially start until the last basketball game in the state championship ends. Day or two afterwards. Weird rule, but put in place so that players that do both can have a chance to play.

Public and private the same dates in Oregon -- Feb 18 official practices begin.

We had tryouts in October (for all but bsktball players), had off-season - mostly weights all during the fall. Practice started January 7th. First game the end of Feb. We are technically in the south, but bb is a "winter" sport as we freeze our tails off the first month.

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Our first practice date was jan 1st. Our first game is mid feb. Gotta love the warm weather

Bayou kid,..no fair no fair no fair.
Here in Kansas,..we still have a while to wait.
Ho hum da di dum,......snore snore bore.

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MN-Mom:

What a difference weather can make. I saw the start date for MN and then looked at my son's HS. They have their 21st game scheduled the day you open in MN.

ILVBB,

Wow, that is a huge difference...21st game!

Of course colleges here in MN are at the mercy of the weather, too. My son's college team starts their spring with a pre-season trip to FL in early March, and some years they have not even gotten to set foot on an outdoor field before the trip.

Feb. 25th here in Washington. But trust me, the real players have been conditioning together year-round.

In South Carolina practice begins Jan. 28, pre-season tournament starts Feb. 22, regular season Mar. 3.

Here in Mass, tryouts start March 17th and our first game is April 7th, assuming we are able to dig out of the snow by then.

Virginia HS baseball starts February 25th.

First official day of practice was January 2nd. First scrimmage is scheduled for February 10th, then the tournaments and games begin. I know this sounds early, but keep in mind that my kids started school on August 11th.

Tryouts today, first practice tomorrow, preseason tournament begins Feb 8, opening day Feb 12.

Woo-hoo here we go!!!

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We all talk about the realities of recruiting, but I can't help think about how much different development is with good weather.

Indoor facilities will become the great equilizer. Even though high school tryouts don't start until March, my son's travel team just starting working out to get the kids ready for high school. Even though the high school season may be shorter, between school and travel he'll play eighty games.

In Ohio the pitchers and catchers start Feb 25 and the position players March 10. The first real game is usually the second week of April. Remarkably, at many schools, every kid is either a pitcher or catcher

First scrimage game is listed as
Feb. 14th.... that date is important for another reason, but I can't recall, oh yeah now I remember........that is the date my beautiful wife is going to start talking to me again. She stopped talking to me last year when I forgot Valentines day. I won't do that again. I need to find out when valentines day is this year......

For all of you warm weather folks that have already started official practice, what do kids that play winter sports do? Or are there no kids that play basketball (probably not hockey where you guys are) and baseball??

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Originally posted by 09Gopher:
For all of you warm weather folks that have already started official practice, what do kids that play winter sports do? Or are there no kids that play basketball (probably not hockey where you guys are) and baseball??

SoCal first official HS Baseball practice is Monday Feb 11th. Official Basketball end is Friday Feb 8th. So kids get the week-end off.

With playoffs (Varsity only) some kids could miss the first two weeks of practice, which can be a problem, particularly for marginal players.

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For all of you warm weather folks that have already started official practice, what do kids that play winter sports do? Or are there no kids that play basketball (probably not hockey where you guys are) and baseball??

For the most part, if you are playing baseball you are probably not playing a winter sport. There is one kid who plays basketball who is a pitcher and he will come out after practice and do a bullpen several times a week until basketball is done.

Believe it or not, we do have ice hockey in Texas.

My younger son plays for the high school varsity team but it is a "club" sport (lacrosse & rugby are also club sports) not a UIL sponsored sport. We have tryouts, a paid coach, and the parents have to absorb all the costs. Grades are reported to the coach so the "No pass No play" rule is in effect. He could not play baseball and ice hockey but he does play football also.

The travel ice hockey teams are better than the high school teams.

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Originally posted by 09Gopher:
For all of you warm weather folks that have already started official practice, what do kids that play winter sports do? Or are there no kids that play basketball (probably not hockey where you guys are) and baseball??

In Texas, I would say there are several kids that play football and baseball. Basketball overlaps by about two weeks into the start of baseball practice and scrimmages. (Unless that team goes into the playoffs) So, those kids that play hoops can miss out on some important practice/scrimmage time.
With that being said, I know of several kids that are D1 athletes that played high school basketball.
One guy I know took his team to the regional finals his senior year as a point guard, then went on to start at SS on the baseball team. He is now playing D1 baseball at Texas A&M.

Son just came in from practice and he is stoked. He's worked hard this fall and seems ready to lead his team. Pre-season tournament 3 weeks from Friday in Naples,Florida.

Oh wow haha, a tournament in three weeks! I couldn't imagine playing baseball the first week in February (aside from long toss inside), the wind chill this morning was -20, talk about a cold walk into school.

Seems to me that our basketball doesn't get over until early March, with the state tournament being played the last few days of March, early April. Depending on how far the bball team goes, some important kids for our baseball team could join the team a day or so before the first game....not to say they won't practice with us before in their spare time (if they have any).

Here in Nebraska tryouts are February 25. Not sure when practice will start but probably somewhere around March 1. The first game is March 15. We don't get a lot of games in during the spring season as we can get snow well into April. More often it is rain and the weather is often cold. This is probably why my son is so interested in going south for college.

Haha i can totally relate to the cold weather thing. Its kinda hard to go up to the plate when its 40 degrees out wanting to hit the ball cause you know even if its a good hit, your hands are gonna be stinging for the next 15 minutes (and you pray to God you don't foul one cause that pretty much wrecks that at-bat).

have been conditioning and practicing year round(I havent due to injury,but my HS has)

first scrimmage is Feb 11.First game is March 1

Kansas = Feb. 25

In Connecticut, conditioning for pitchers and catchers starts March 10; tryouts for all players begin March 17.

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Originally posted by 09Gopher:
For all of you warm weather folks that have already started official practice, what do kids that play winter sports do? Or are there no kids that play basketball (probably not hockey where you guys are) and baseball??

Basketball and track would interfere with Baseball in our area. No one on the baseball team plays either. A couple of kids tried it in the past but ended up asking the basketball coach for a release two weeks after baseball practice started. They were not starters on the basketball team so the coach released them.