On August 18th, the IHSAA announced that both girls’ tennis will be moved to become fall sports in 2025. Spring sports often conflict with summer sports like baseball and softball, and this change allows athletes to participate in several sports. This decision aims to equalize fall and spring sports according to the IHSAA. 

Although there’s a chance  athletes who play both volleyball and tennis, will be forced to pick one sport over another. 

“For other multisport athletes, this can ruin the opportunity for them to continue playing multiple sports that they’ve played their whole life and may be forced to pick one over the other,” Amelie Donovan ‘25 said. 

Despite some of the backlash toward this decision, the IHSAA has strong hopes that this will be a successful transition for all schools. 

As for City High director, Athletic Director Phillip Lala says they will be monitoring the 2025 fall season closely to see how many multisport athletes are affected. 

“Girls tennis switching to the fall will provide much greater weather than in the spring. In addition, because they are not competing at the same time as boys tennis, it will provide more space as there won’t be conflicting practice times,” Lala said. 

He hopes this change will provide more opportunities for our tennis players and have fewer interruptions during the season due to poor spring weather.