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Summer Coaching Contact Update: What You Need to Know for 2025

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) membership approved a new policy regarding Summer Coaching Contact at the annual meeting on April 25—giving school programs greater flexibility while still prioritizing student-athlete well-being and balance.

What’s Changed?

Previously, coaches were limited to 5 school-sanctioned contact days with their student-athletes during the summer. This restriction has now been lifted—but new guidelines and boundaries remain in place to ensure fairness, rest, and scheduling consistency across programs.

Key Dates for 2025 Summer Coaching Contact:

Allowed Coaching Contact Windows

June 1 – June 30
July 7 – July 31
 

Dead Week (No Contact)

July 1 – July 6
This is a mandatory break—no school-sanctioned instruction or competition may occur during this time.
 

Football Exception

July 27 – August 2
No football school-sanctioned coaching contact is allowed during this week.
 

Fall Sports Note
There must be at least one full calendar week (Sunday to Saturday) with no school-sanctioned coaching contact before the official start of fall practices. This ensures athletes get necessary rest before the season begins.

What This Means for Students, Parents & Coaches:

Participation remains voluntary – Students are not required to attend summer coaching contact sessions. These cannot be mandatory.
 

Balance is key – Coaches and families should work together to make sure athletes aren’t overwhelmed. Summer is a time for skill-building and rest.
 

Scheduling in progress – Head coaches are currently submitting preferred summer dates. Our goal is to create a coordinated schedule that avoids conflicts and respects everyone’s time.
 

Moving Forward Together

This expanded summer contact window gives programs more time to develop skills and build team chemistry—but we remain committed to keeping student well-being, family time, and facility availability in mind.

If you have questions about your team’s summer schedule, please reach out to your head coach or the athletic office.

Let’s work together to make this summer productive, balanced, and enjoyable for all!

Important Update for Parents: WIAA Approves Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Policy

At its annual meeting on April 25, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) approved a policy allowing high school student-athletes to engage in Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities. This means students can now be compensated for personal brand activities like endorsements or social media promotions—as long as those opportunities are completely independent of their school, team, conference, or the WIAA.

 What Parents Should Know:

No School Affiliation: NIL opportunities must not involve the student’s school uniform, team logo, name, or anything that ties back to their school, conference, or the WIAA.
 

No Restricted Products: Students may not promote or endorse products such as gambling, alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, adult entertainment, or firearms.
 

No Performance-Based Pay: NIL compensation cannot be based on how well a student performs in their sport (e.g., scoring, winning).
 

No Recruitment Influence: Students cannot receive NIL deals as an incentive to attend or remain at a particular school.
 

No Agents or School Help: Students may not use agents or third-party representatives, and schools or school staff are not allowed to help arrange or promote NIL deals.
 

No Interference with School: NIL activities must not interfere with a student-athlete’s academic responsibilities or cause them to miss practices, competitions, travel, or other team obligations.
 

Important Note for Families:
“Persons Associated With the School” are strictly prohibited from offering NIL opportunities to student-athletes. This includes—but is not limited to—current or former coaches, athletes, parents or caregivers of current/former athletes (with the exception of a student’s own parent), booster club members, alumni, teachers, school employees, and individuals connected to businesses that have donated money, equipment, apparel, or supplies to the school.

This new NIL policy gives student-athletes more freedom to pursue opportunities while maintaining fairness, academic focus, and their amateur athletic status.

If you have questions, I encourage you to reach out with questions you may have via phone or email. 

 

Mark your calendar, 2025-26 PHS Annual Mandatory Athletic Code Meeting (May)

The PHS Annual Mandatory Athletic Code Meeting for all incoming 9-12 grade students for the 2025-26 school year (currently in grades 8-11) will be Sunday, May 18, 2025. ALL potential high school athletes (no matter what season they compete) must attend with a parent. This meeting will take place at PHS at 6 p.m. in the auditorium. PHS Fall sports meetings will follow the code meeting.

PHS Fall Sports (F): Cross Country, Football, Girls' Golf, Girls' Swimming, Girls' Tennis, Girls' Volleyball, Boys' Soccer & Dance

 

 

 

 

 

Forms & Documents

  Athletic forms are filled out online in your skyward family access account (Online Forms). Please click the directions below to find out how.

   PHS Online Sports Registration Directions

   High School Online Athletic Form Directions Video

   Check for Last Athletic Physical

High School Forms to submit to the PHS Athletic office.

TRANSPORTATION FORMS- Coaches have asked for a simplified way to take care of transportation forms and we have delivered.  This was shared at the spring code meeting:  

PLEASE COMMUNICATE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR PARENTS- in the event that a parent is simply transporting their son/daughter home after an event and if they have checked this box during registration, they simply need to check out with their head coach after the game.  All other circumstances would require a form.

We no longer require a form to be filled out if parents are taking their child FROM an event.  As long as you clicked on that button while registering to allow this, you simply need to sign out with the Coach after the game.  IF, HOWEVER, you are planning on having another adult drive your child home or, for some reason you need to transport your child TO a game, then you would need to fill out a form and submit it to the athletic office. 

PHS Athlete Physical forms can be dropped off at the PHS Athletic office, emailed to jlthomson@pulaskischools.org, or faxed to 920-822-6707 Attention: PHS Athletic office. Any questions, please call the PHS Athletic office at 822-6705.

 

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Athletic Documents

High School Documents

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