Free sports physicals to be offered July 10

STAFF REPORT

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LOUISA — Free sports physicals will be offered at the office of Dr. Spencer Harris beginning at 8 a.m. on July 10.

Harris’ office is located across from the Lawrence County High School Softball Field.

Currently, Lawrence County student-athletes are headed into the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Dead Period.

The Dead Period was adopted 20-plus years ago by member schools in response to concerns about year-round play and practice and parental and coaching desire for some down time from interscholastic play. Member schools adopted the period of June 25-July 9 as a time of inactivity, which followed the pattern of the historic idling of southern textile mills and this time allows administrators, coaches, student-athletes and their families a time where they are not committed to school play.

Lawrence County fall sports teams will open preseason practices in July. Each student-athlete participating in a fall sport must have a sports physical.