City Told to Leave Winter Sports Alone

If City Section athletic administrators listen to at least some of their rank and file, the City will not move its winter sports schedule after the Los Angeles Unified School District institutes a year-round schedule this summer.

The majority of about 40 coaches, administrators and parents at Grant High in Van Nuys on Wednesday night objected to a plan that would move the winter schedule to the fall to accommodate the new calendar. No official vote was taken, but the majority who spoke favored keeping the winter schedule intact. At a similar meeting Tuesday at the district’s senior high division offices, the vote was 24-10 against moving the schedule.

A sub-committee of the Interscholastic Athletics Committee will meet today to make recommendations to IAC based on the discussions of the past two nights.

The City had proposed shortened seasons for basketball, soccer and wrestling to run from mid-October until the winter break because 43 of the district’s 49 high schools will be closed for a six-week period during the winter sports season.