Seems like, if anything, it would be more practical to move track to the fall than soccer. Reasons:
1. Practice for running events can be held on the track areas around the football field, not interfering with football activities during the week.
2. Many track events that don't require specialized training (exceptions would be pole vault, hurdles, shot and discus) can share athletes with other sports that require running, sprinting, etc. as part of their regular training.
3. Training/practice for specialized events would have minimal impact on shared facilities. Pole vault training takes place in a designated area to the side of the football fields. Hurdles take place on the track outside the fields. Shot and discus, while the events themselves occur on the field, would require much less alternative space than soccer to practice effectively.
4. Track meets traditionally take place on Wednesdays, which would not conflict with traditional Varsity, JV or B-team football game nights.
5. Moving track to the fall season would free up both male AND female athletes to participate in soccer, contributing to the pool of athletes on both sides of the sport.
Given a choice between sharing athletes AND facilities, and just sharing athletes, the latter would seem to be the more practical solution. Thoughts?
