With five weeks to go until the spring sports season starts, some spring athletes are staying in shape with winter sports, but others are getting a head start by working out before and after school. Other sports haven’t started organized workouts yet. Here’s what each spring sport is up to right now.

Boys soccer players have been doing plyometrics on Tuesdays and yoga on Thursdays, and lifting twice a week. Coach John Brian estimated 20 to 30 boys have been showing up regularly. “The seniors this year have done a much better job of organizing, and of influencing people to show up,” he said.

Girls tennis players aren’t doing any pre-season workouts at school, because NSAA rules prohibit pre-season tennis practices with more than four players under the supervision of a sponsor. However, head coach Kim Gradoville said many of the players are working with private coaches and at clinics outside of school.

Girls track & field participants have been working in three groups – distance runners, sprinters, and throwers. The distance runners have been running mileage and doing some light workouts, and sprinters have been doing light workouts with a focus on technique and mechanics. Throwers have been lifting weights three to four days a week. Head coach Jon Preister said between the groups, an average of 20 to 30 girls a day have been working out after school.

Girls soccer workouts are already going strong, and include a variety of exercises. The girls do sprints, stair workouts, yoga, pilates, Insanity, and circuits. Once a week, they play indoor soccer at the Gretna Sports Complex, and on warm days, they do outside activities. “We mix up our schedule to make it so we’re not overloading muscle groups,” head coach Nathan Moseley said. Although conditioning isn’t required, Moseley said he encourages it, and an average of about 20 girls have been attending each day.

Baseball players have been working out in the mornings, from about 6:15 to 7:30 a.m. They hit every morning in the weight room and rotate what fielding activities they do. Sometimes it’s infielding, sometimes it’s pitching, and sometimes it’s catching. There’s also lifting after school two or three days a week. If a player misses three of the group lifting workouts, he has to lift on his own from then on. However, Greco said that has no bearing on whether a player will make the team.

Boys track & field participants have been lifting several times a week, according to head coach Rick McKeever. They’ve also been doing what he calls a speed development program on Tuesdays and Thursdays; it includes dynamic warmups, sprinting, different kinds of workouts, and abdominal work. Those workouts include everyone — sprinters, distance runners, and throwers. A number of football players have been participating as well; McKeever said some of them are athletes who do both football and track, but some are just there to stay in shape. He sees the inclusive workouts as a valuable recruiting tool for track and field. “We’ve had as many as 80 [boys] at a time,” McKeever said. “I hope I can get about 60 out of the 80 to come out for track.”

Boys golf is not doing anything right now, but head coach Brett Froendt said they will be starting preseason workouts in February, possibly at an indoor facility.