With the first day of school right around the corner, athletes at Centerburg High School are getting ready to begin fall sports.

Centerburg Athletic Director Roch Porter said athletes in football, volleyball, golf and cross country are ready to get started, and he’s making sure all of the squads have their itineraries ironed out.

“Just from an administrative perspective, I'm just going through the rosters right now and making sure all the kids and the parents have their paperwork signed and completed,” he said. “(I’m) making sure that all the student athletes have current physicals on file with the school, kind of starting to work on transportation and, with our freshman volleyball team, kind of find a few extra matches right now.”

Porter added that he expected and hoped each squad would get to play an entire season and not an abbreviated season.

“We're preparing and planning for a full season," he said. "We're on schedule to come back to school on time. Right now, we are not aware of any mandates that's going to hinder our (school) opening up and moving forward as we plan to.”

The district superintendent was expected to meet with the Knox Public Health Department soon regarding any possible safety protocols that the school could take, he said.

The volleyball squad has already gotten started with its season, with the varsity boys golf team starting next Monday. 

The Trojan varsity football team is scheduled to begin the season on Aug. 20 at home against Utica, and cross country gets started on Aug. 23. 

Porter said he was excited about the prospects of building off last year’s successful football season.

“It was an abbreviated fall (season),” he said. “We played a shortened regular season from ten games to six games. We had a six-game regular season where we went undefeated and we were conference champs last year, and then we ended up hosting the first round of the playoffs, but we ended up losing that game to Loudonville.”

Centerburg has seen success in placing athletes at the next level as nine student athletes signed scholarships this May.

On another Signing Day earlier this year, several athletes announced their college destinations.