Fall sports practice start August 13

Don’t look now but high school sports are already sneaking up on us.

Back to almost-normal after more than a year of dealing with COVID-19 and the myriad ways it affected prep sports, the Montana High School Association has released official dates for the start of the fall seasons.

The MHSA indicates that cross country and volleyball seasons can begin with practice Friday, August 13, while Montana football teams can hit the field beginning Saturday, August 14.

The All-State Cross Country State Meet will be held in Missoula October 23, the All-Class State Volleyball tournaments will again be held at Brick Breeden Fieldhouse in Bozeman, and the state championship games of all five Montana football classes – 6-Man, 8-Man, 11-Man Class B, Class A and Class AA – will be played the weekend of November 20-21.

The first sanctioned competition for cross country and volleyball can begin August 26, while football games will begin August 27.