Limited high school sports activities have resumed this week at Roseburg High School during what the Oregon School Activities Association has termed “season 1.”

Official sports competitions won’t begin until 2021, but the OSAA is allowing schools to use this fall season to hold training sessions with student-athletes as long as it is approved by the local school district. 

Roseburg School District has formulated a plan to re-engage student-athletes. Workouts began Monday for girl’s soccer, boy’s lacrosse and baseball. Sports will trade off days with each other to utilize the school’s facilities and ease student-athletes back into the activities. 

Volleyball, boy’s soccer, cheerleading, boy’s and girl’s basketball and wrestling are scheduled to practice today. Practice schedules can be found on the Roseburg High School website. 

The school district had previously stated that athletic activities would be on hold until some sort of in-person learning was taking place at the high school, but in a notice to students and families, Roseburg athletic director Russ Bolin said that wasn’t a reality in these present times. 

Yet, with students returning to in-person learning at the kindergarten through third grade level, the school district felt the time was right to allow sports activities to begin.