The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference announced its latest fall sports plan online late Wednesday night, including pushing back the start date for games to Thursday, Oct. 1.

The CIAC posted a copy of its plan at its website. It has also scheduled a Thursday morning press conference, where it will confirm traditional football and volleyball seasons will be part of that plan.

All fall sports will begin conditioning on Saturday and be limited to “low risk conditioning and non-contact specific skill work, in cohorts no larger than 10, through September 20,” according to the document.

“September 21, 2020, was determined to be the date at which most of our member schools will have been in session for approximately two weeks (many of our member schools will begin instruction on or before September 8th),” according to the document. “The CIAC believes that a minimum of two weeks of COVID data is necessary to determine whether the return to on campus instruction will impact extracurricular offerings. Therefore, no full team practices will occur prior to September 21.”

Should the seven-day average percentage of COVID-19 cases per state 100,000 residents reach certain thresholds, then the CIAC would either limit activities to “conditioning and low risk non-contact sport specific skill work,” or suspend all sports.

The CIAC originally announced its fall sports plans on July 31 with a condensed, regionalized season starting on Sept. 24.

The CIAC Board of Control voted on Aug. 12 to continue forward with that plan, the same day it received a letter of recommendations from Connecticut’s Department of Public Health. The DPH recommended, among other things, postponing “moderate” (volleyball) and “higher risk” sports (football) to the spring.

The CIAC shut down all sports activities on Aug. 14 to review the recommendations. Its Board of Control announced Sunday that conditioning for fall sports could begin again Monday.

Football had previously been scheduled to start practicing on Aug. 17 and all other fall sports were to start on Thursday.

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