CIF to allow coach-supervised events pre-practice

For the past 16 years the CIF San Diego Section has had a prohibition against teams attending camps, clinics, and tournaments supervised by the school coach or coaching staff members and within two weeks of the start of fall practices. That will no longer be the case.

A unanimous CIF Board of Managers voice vote May 23 eliminated the article in the CIF bylaws which prohibited such activities. The change does not eliminate the two-week "no-contact" period in which a coach cannot have contact with his or her student-athletes.

"It was initially put in the CIF bylaws to address a specific problem,...