Most of Washington state opts to push all fall sports to March and April

Earlier this week, the Eli Sports Network reached out to the directors of all nine WIAA district to assess if there will be sports of any kind in the state this fall.

Last month, the WIAA amended its revised 2020-21 athletic calendar to give leagues the option of competing in alternate seasons for cross country, slowpitch softball, tennis and golf. The other fall sports — football, volleyball, girls soccer and girls swimming — had already been moved to Season 3 in March and April.

Eli heard back from directors in five districts — 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8 — and all indications is that the overwhelming majority of high schools in the state won’t be participating in sports of any kind until January at the earliest.

Some individual schools — like Columbia of White Salmon, which hopes to host two or three cross country meets this fall — may try to offer some kind of competition this fall. That might also be true for some small schools and private schools.

Otherwise, it looks like prep sports will go quiet in Washington this fall.

So we took Eli’s reporting and combined that with searching for published reports on the status of other leagues around the state, and here is what we came up with.