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Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

The CIF San Diego Section has a “dead period” in which contact between coaches and student-athletes is not allowed. The period is 14 days, and schools can now split that no contact period into two seven-day periods.

A unanimous CIF Board of Managers vote Wednesday, April 5, approved a revision in the language which allows schools to split a no contact period while also allowing the retention of a 14-day consecutive period.

“This would be another option,” CIF commissioner Joe Heinz said.

In 2002, the CIF implemented a two-week period which prohib...