STEVENS POINT – The WIAA planning culminating championships and tournaments for an alternate fall season created by the Board of Control last August as a COVID-19 accommodation for member schools opting to not conduct interscholastic athletics last fall.
The girls’ swimming and diving alternate season will feature one division for the tournament series.
The state championships will be Tuesday, April 6, at Waukesha South High School.
The meet is scheduled to begin with the diving competition at 12:30 p.m. with the swimming events starting at 5 p.m.
Forty-two girls’ swimming and diving programs declared for this spring.
The boys’ and girls’ volleyball tournament series will culminate with championship matches Saturday, April 17, at Kaukauna High School.
The girls’ tournament features two divisions, with the Division 2 championship match at 1 p.m. and the Division 1 match at 7 p.m.
The state semifinals will be Thursday, April 15, at two locations to be determined.
The one-division boys’ state tournament will only have a championship match, which will be held at 4 p.m.
There are 116 girls’ programs opting into the alternate fall season and 16 boys’ programs.
The girls’ tennis alternate season will experience individual and team state tournaments featuring one division.
The individual tournament will be Thursday/Friday, April 22-23, at Badger High School and the Lake Geneva Tennis Club.
The team tournament will be Saturday, May 1, at the Menard Tennis Center in Eau Claire.
Forty-two girls’ tennis programs declared for this spring.
The boys’ and girls’ cross country championships for one division will be Saturday, May 8, at a site to be determined.
Fifty-nine boys’ programs and 57 girls’ programs declared for this spring.
There will be two divisions of boys’ soccer.
The state tournament will consist of two semifinals and a championship game for both divisions Saturday, May 15, at two locations to be determined.
Eighty-five boys’ soccer programs declared to participate in the tournament this spring.
The one division of the girls’ golf championships is scheduled for Monday/Tuesday, May 17-18.
The site of the event has not been determined.
There are 38 girls’ golf programs declaring for the alternate tournament series this spring.
The football fall alternate season includes a seven-week, regular-season schedule of games.
Games began March 25.
One-hundred-twenty-seven programs have declared to play this spring, including 113 in 11-player and 14 in 8-player.
Planning for the alternate fall tournament series is ongoing with details of seed meetings, as well as regional and sectional competitions to be forthcoming when available and will be posted on the WIAA website on each respective sport’s tournament page.