A. Foley -- While I agree that not allowing a player to work on ball skills is not desirable, please understand that ALL S.C. High School League sanctioned sports are under the HSL jurisdiction and that "dead periods" preclude every athletic season.
Football teams were not allowed to begin "football practice" and activities as such until August 1st, but could of course do conditioning work and participate in "passing leagues" or summer camps prior to the August 1st date.
Likewise, prep baseball, softball, track, boys tennis, etc. all are under the "dead period" right now.
This does not prevent players from working on their own however at community/club fields -- just on school grounds and their feeder school (i.e. Middle Schools/Junior High Schools) fields.
