Madison Central School District To Move Forward With Softball as a Spring Sport

The Madison Central School District is moving forward with adding girls softball as one of the district’s spring sports.  The South Dakota High School Activities Association recently approved softball as a state sanctioned program.  Madison Central Activities Director Michael Ricke told Madison Central School Board members during their meeting Monday that the Activities Association wants to know which schools are intending to participate in the sport.  He said that Madison has had girls softball as a club sport in the fall, but the school season will be in the spring, starting in the spring of 2023.  Ricke said that he thinks the district should have the numbers to support the program.

Ricke said that they will have to weigh how adding the sport will affect other sports offered at the same time.

Ricke said that the district will need to have a budget for the softball program, which will include a head and assistant coach, equipment, officials and other items.  He said that the City of Madison has said the district can use its fields for the softball program.