Starting next month, every high school athlete will have competed under the current configuration of seasons, which switched heading into 2006-07 after years of legal battles.
Back in 2006, those in favor of the season switches -- which swapped volleyball and girls basketball between fall and winter, and the boys and girls golf and tennis seasons with their respective counterparts -- would need only a few years to feel like the way things have always been done. So do they?
You don't hear much about the formerly well-discussed gender equity lawsuit anymore. The only time it's come up lately has been with the switches in basketball game start times scheduled to happen in the CAAC where the boys and girls teams will take turns being the second game of the night.
I'm sure most coaches and administrators and parents still have some feelings on the switch. But I wonder if athletes care much or have an opinion. What's mine? I'd still say girls basketball has taken a serious hit going from the only hoops in the fall to sharing the winter with the boys, and I don't know that any boost received by volleyball has made up for it. The tennis and golf programs swapped disadvantages -- those that moved to fall get all summer to practice but play state finals in crummy late-autumn weather. Those now in the spring start practice inside, but finish in the sun.
High school sports editor 
