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CHSAA announces 2020-21 calendar, creating four separate sports seasons

Moffat County High School's Donnie Quick finds a gap against Sterling.
Andy Bockelman / Craig Press File

The Colorado High School Activities Association has announced its 2020-2021 interscholastic athletics and activities calendar, following months of collaboration with Gov. Jared Polis, the CHSAA Resocialization Task Force, the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, the state’s COVID-19 Response team, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and the CHSAA Board of Directors and administrative staff.

The 2020-21 season will be played with a modified sport schedule due to the on-going global pandemic, creating four separate sports seasons during the school year, according to a press release from CHSAA.

The modified calendar splits sports into four seasons, concluding in late June: A, B, C and D



Dates and plans for non-athletic activities continue to be formulated.

Each season is approximately seven weeks from start to finish, according to CHSAA. Sports will have their regular season competition limits reduced. The postseason for each sport will also be shortened, including the number of state qualifiers.



The following 2020 fall sports will begin as originally scheduled: boys golf began practice on Aug. 3, softball and boys tennis is set to begin on Aug. 10, and cross country on Aug. 12. According to the modified calendar, this is Season A.

The remaining traditional fall sports are unable to be played under current state health guidelines. These sports are field hockey, football, gymnastics, boys soccer, competitive spirit, unified bowling and girls volleyball.

The sports played this fall will all be concluded by October 17.

Courtesy Photo / CHSAA

“The health and safety of our student participants, coaches, officials and essential personnel, including volunteers is a primary concern for the return of interscholastic athletics and activities,” said CHSAA Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green. “We are very grateful for the state, health and educational leaders for their shared commitment of a return to these highly beneficial education programs when it is deemed safe for all school communities.”

The resumption of all activities and athletics are subject to change based upon any changes to national, state or local guidelines.

Following a phone call with Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday, Blanford-Green and CHSAA received a final response on the plan it submitted to the state’s COVID response team. This includes the clearance for cross country to begin this fall. Previously, boys’ golf, boys’ tennis and softball had been given permission to start.

Due to the restrictive nature of the current state guidelines, and the ability to follow Colorado Department of Education requirements, all contact sports have been moved to a season which will commence later in the calendar, and allow for playoffs and culminating events without creating new conflicts, according to CHSAA Assistant Commissioner Bert Borgmann.

“We would like to thank our member schools and our school communities for their patience as we worked through the many challenges to get to where we are today,” Blanford-Green said.


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