The KSHSAA Fall Buffer Week for Kansas coaches, athletes and parents is Nov. 9-15 (Monday through Saturday).
The KSHSAA Fall Buffer Week is a mandatory one-week ban from school-sponsored athletic events for senior high schools.
During this week, there may be no athletic practices, offseason conditioning, informal basketball shooting wrestling workouts or similar school-sponsored athletic activity outside the regular school day.
Noon hour and physical education classes are considered part of the school day.
During Fall Buffer Week, the following school-sponsored athletic activities are prohibited:
• No practices.
• No offseason conditioning or wight workouts outside off classes during the school day.
• No open gym or informal basketball shooting.
• No wrestling mat workouts.
• No school-staff-sponsored-
• No after-hours access to school gyms for workouts.
Exceptions/allowed items:
• Football playoff teams may continue practicing until their season ends.
• Fall sports banquets, gear check-in and winter locker assignments are allowed.
• One winter sports informational meeting is allowed. Parents may attend.
• Cheer practice and school-club athletic activities such as powder puff events are allowed if not interscholastic competition.
Winter sports practices begin on Nov. 16 (Monday) for boys basketball, girls basketball, Esports, boys wrestling, girls wrestling, boys swimming and boys diving.
