As you are reading this, we’re only days away from the first day of practice for the Marblehead High School fall sports athletes. The football players will report to head coach Jim Rudloff on Friday, Aug. 15. The golf team will also see its summer end early on this day, while all other fall teams are slated to begin three days later on Aug. 18. But first, there’s some paperwork to complete, before they can suit up.
Let’s start with the players completing and submitting the online registration form after clicking on the register now button to open it up on the school’s athletic department website at students.arbitersports.com/programs/mhs-2025-fall-athletics-registration.
Up-to-date in-person physicals are also required, but for your convenience you can upload them and drop them off at the athletic department’s office. The physicals must be dated July 15, 2024, or after to be eligible to play, according to MIAA regulations.
The annual user fees, the third requirement before playing, must be sent to the MHS athletic department via online payment at the end of the day on Aug. 14. The breakdown of the fees may be found on the registration form link. All registration forms with the user fees must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on the aforementioned date of Thursday, Aug. 14, and sent to Kristin Morello’s email at morello.kristin@Marbleheadschools.org.
But once all of that administrative paperwork is done, it will be time to report to the respective fall sports coaches, and here’s where and when to do so:
Varsity and JV football players must be in the weightroom at 6 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 15, where they will be met by Rudloff. The freshmen won’t have to report until Monday, Aug. 18, at the MHS fieldhouse (7:45 a.m.).
Also on Friday, Aug. 15, the varsity, JV and freshman golfers will meet coach Bob Green at DiLisio’s Driving Range to begin their first of many practice rounds, but not until 1 p.m.
The boys and girls cross-country teams will convene at Gatchell’s Park early Monday morning, Aug. 18, at 7:55 a.m. Will Herlihy, the girls coach, and Brian Heenan, the boys coach, will be there to hit the ground running with a workout regimen for their athletes to get the season quickly underway.
Volleyball coach Killeen Miller will be at the MHS fieldhouse at 8 a.m. also on Aug. 18 to welcome her varsity, JV and freshman players to the first day of practice.
Varsity, JV and freshman boys soccer players will be at Piper for the first day of practice with coach Elmer Magana again on Aug. 18 at 10 a.m. The varsity, JV and freshman girls with their second-year coach Lisa Wales will hold their first practice together there five hours later at 3 p.m., followed by the varsity, JV and freshman field hockey team two hours later. They will officially get together with the program’s new head coach Alison Carey at 5 p.m.
