USA Football – Heads Up Football
TAPPS requires that all high school football coaches must be Heads Up certified.
USA Football has partnered with TAPPS to provide this important course for our student athletes’ safety.
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2020 TAPPS Passes Update
Administrators and Athletic Directors: As we continue the 2020-21 school year, there have reports of schools not honoring TAPPS passes. Please review the following clarification on the purpose and use of the annual TAPPS pass. This year the passes are slightly...
Video of Opponents
Athletic Directors and Coaches: With the fall seasons in full swing, please review the following information pertaining to videography of contests. The information is shown in the TAPPS By-Laws Section 138 - Videotaping and filming. As a reminder, you may videotape...
Football Score Reporting
Athletic Directors and Football Coaches: Thank you to all who reported your scores this past weekend. In review of the standings page and score stream, if you have not entered your score in both Rank One and ScoreStream, please do so as soon as time allows. We look...
COVID Game Cancellations
Head Administrators and Athletic Directors: Over the past weeks the TAPPS Fall Seasons returned to play across our state. While many contests have taken place without incident, there have been reports of game cancellations resulting from COVID tests and protocols....
2020 Fall Bracket Release
The TAPPS Fall season brackets will be released today, September 28, as scheduled below. The brackets can be found on the TAPPS website by clicking the link. Winter and Spring brackets will be released in mid-November. 12 pm Volleyball 1 pm Fall Soccer 2 pm Football...
September 24 TAPPS Protocols Update
Administrators: The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) continues to review available information from across the state as we negotiate the current pandemic. With recent orders from Governor Abbott earlier this week and the beginning of the...
Fall Sports Score Reporting
Athletic Directors and Coaches: With the Fall Sport seasons beginning, please make sure scores are reported in both RankOne and Scorestream, within 24 hours of conclusion, as required by TAPPS. Standings on the website are pulled from RankOne, if standings are...
2020 Removal From a Contest
Athletic Directors and Coaches: As the seasons begin for 2020, we know all of us will be on our best behavior. However, history has proven that some players and coaches will have their contests shortened prior to their conclusion by either action or choice of words. ...
2020 Injury Reporting
Athletic Directors and Coaches: With the 2020 seasons, TAPPS continues our health and safety initiative with our partner Children’s Health Andrews Institute (CHAI). We continue to review our injury reporting to further assist CHAI in using this data in studies and...
2020 Football Tackling Certification
Athletic Directors and Coaches: The TAPPS football season is just around the corner. TAPPS continues to require tackling certification for all coaches involved in high school programs. With the addition of the pandemic to the start of the year, the following...
