Five of the six spring sports held tryouts on the week of Feb. 23. Yet, one sport was a week later: track and field.
“It’s later than last year for sure,” junior distance runner Kaylyn Yu said. “But I feel like it’s fine, as long as we are able to get all the accommodations we need for the official season to start.
Tryouts were pushed back a week due to the Virginia High School League’s 2026 Indoor Track State Championships, where members of the winter track team who qualified and their coaches participated. Since the event ran from March 2-5, the winter season overlapped with tryouts.
“Because track is the only continual sport, if they go to states, they just choose to join later and inform their coaches prior,” Yu said.
Spring track is one of three seasons offered to runners, alongside cross country and winter. Yu runs them all, noting the difference between winter and spring.
“There are typically more spring than winter athletes, because in the winter it’s cold, so nobody wants to be running,” Yu said. “But in the spring I feel like there’s more. I like spring better personally, because it’s like an outdoor sport rather than competing indoors in the winter.”
This year, tryouts for spring track will take place from March 4-6, with Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. and Thursday and Friday at 4:00 p.m. Sprinters will start the first day running the 100 meter dash and then progress to the 200 meter dash. Distance runners will do 400 meters, while shot put players’ throws will be observed. It will take place at the track around the football field.
