Activities Dead Period

1.5.1 Summertime Dead Period: All member schools shall establish a summertime dead period for all MSHSAA-sponsoredactivities which meets the requirements listed below.1.5.2 Definition of the Summertime Dead Period: A period of defined length in which no contact takes place between schoolcoaches/directors of MSHSAA-sponsored activities and students enrolled in the member school, students who will beenrolled in the member school during the next school year, and students who meet the residency requirements to be residentparticipant students with the member school either in the current year or the next year. Further, during the dead period schoolfacilities are not utilized by enrolled students or students who meet the residency requirements to be resident participantstudents in connection with any sport or activity governed by MSHSAA. The dead period is a “no school activities time”; noopen gyms, competitions, practices, conditioning, weight training; no activity-related functions or fund raisers, camps or clinicsat school facilities or sponsored elsewhere by the school; no coaches/directors or students may have planned contact otherthan casual, normal community, non-activity contact. While there may be sports activities during this time, they must notinvolve the school coach, the school or school facilities.1.5.3 Duration: The dead period shall be nine consecutive days in length, and must begin on a Saturday and last through thesecond following Sunday.1.5.4 Summer Placement: Each school is responsible for setting a dead period for its athletics program and one for its activitiesprogram. These dead periods may be concurrent or separate. The earliest possible dead period may be set to start noearlier than the Saturday following the school’s last day of classes or the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, whichever islater. The latest possible dead period would end on the Sunday prior to the first allowable high school fall practice (Sundayof Standardized Calendar Week Number Six). This last possible dead period closes at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday of StandardizedCalendar Week Number Six to allow for a Fall Sport/Activity Parent Meeting to take place after 5:00 p.m. if desired by theschool.