AHSAA's mandatory guidelines provide coaches information on how long to practice on steaming hot days.
Elba head football coach Marc Sieving and his team received a rare benefit at Monday’s practice, courtesy of Hurricane Debby.
The safety of the student-athletes is certainly a concern for new executive director Heath Harmon and the Alabama High School Athletic Association. “There are a number of things we do to make sure we are dealing with the heat,” Vestavia Hills coach Robert Evans said. “If it is a scorcher of a day, we ‘flip the day’ and practice before school and then do our meetings and weights in the afternoon. We also tend to have shorter practices this time of year because of the heat. We go strictly by the AHSAA regulations with the wet bulb temperature and follow all of the guidelines set forth by the state.
“We try to educate them on the preparation before practice in terms of hydrating, eating, getting plenty of rest before practice, staying hydrated during practice, and then starting that process completely over after practice. We spend a lot of time, and there’s a lot of emphasis, on that. That has always worked for us in the past. We do the cold tubs and things like that after practice as well. Pretty much standard stuff.
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