Newly updated as of July 28th, 2025

Welcome to the Norterra Canyon home page for athletics. As the 25-26 school year progresses, this page will be updated…and in most cases, you’ll probably be able to go to individual pages for each sport.

This page is primarily a sports overview regarding information that is relevant to most sports, and focuses on any changes for the 25-26 sports year.

This year, we are once again in the DV sports division known as 1A, and we share this division with 6 other schools…Sunset Ridge, Gavilan Peak, Paseo Hills, Inspiration Mountain, Anthem, and Desert Mountain.

The order of the sports during the year is as follows...

Baseball and softball are our Fall sports (tryouts will be approx. the week of Aug. 12th), Winter sports will be boys/girls volleyball and cross country (tryouts will be approx. the week of Oct. 31st), and Spring sports will be boys/girls basketball and cheer (tryouts will be approx. the week of Jan. 30th)

Our coaching lineup... 

We're going to be having a lot of familiar faces coming back for this year.

It can be confirmed that softball will still be helmed by Dale LeBlanc, baseball will be directed by Cade Hall once again, girls volleyball will be led by Michelle Sears, Cheer will be coached by Stacy Mahoney, Cross Country will be led by Jill Barron, and Girls Basketball will once again be orchestrated by Tony Cosmano.

All other sports will have a coach identified well in advance of the start of their season, and that information will be pushed out (and posted on this page) as soon as possible.

Practices and tryouts :

With every sport, students need to have a current physical on file in order to tryout.

• Practices are typically every Mon – Thur from 3:10 to 4:45 (except for game days of course).
• All 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th graders are eligible for all 8 sports...but roster spots are reserved for 7th and 8th graders initially. NC allows for the potential use of 6th graders if and when a full and effective team cannot be fielded using only 7th and 8th graders.
• Tryout dates will always be pushed out in various formats, and are typically Mondays and Tuesdays from 3:10 to roughly 4:45. Athletes are required to have a current (less than 1 calendar year old) physical in order to attend tryouts.
• All 5^th graders are eligible for the no-cut sport of cross country, and some 5^th grade girls may be eligible to try out for cheer. Potential 5th grade cheer participants are allowed by the district to participate in practices and regular season basketball games, but are not allowed to participate in district cheer championships.
• Games (home and away) will usually start around 4:00.
• All away games will be parent drop-off…since bus transportation to most after-school activities has become very hard to schedule.
• Your athlete can bring an individual post-school snack, but the cafeteria may be planning on providing post-school snacks for athletes. There are also often parents of players who will offer to provide snacks for certain individual sporting events.
• Most schools (including Norterra Canyon) will charge a small $4 fee to attend their indoor sports, like volleyball and basketball.
• Grades are checked weekly by the Athletic Office to ensure academic eligibility.
• Student-Athletes who do not meet eligibility requirements by the end of the week (Friday @ 3pm) are disqualified from all inter-school competition for the following week.
• Parents are encouraged to track their child’s academic progress.
• If a physical and/or athletic fee is still missing once the season officially starts, the student will have to forego game participation.
• Coaches have 24 hours to process the results of a game and then initiate communication with their players (DVUSD policy)
• Please consider how you interact with a coach outside of the campus footprint (common courtesy).

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2025 Baseball Schedule...

                                                                                               Location

Immediately important information (like practice schedules, athletic fees, etc.) will always be pushed out by AD Harder and coaches via morning announcements, eblasts, fliers, and classroom visits until this webpage can be completed.

- Opening day games for softball (and baseball) are scheduled for Monday, Sept. 8th.

- All games (home and away) are scheduled to start as close to 4:20 as possible

- Until temperatures cool, encourage your athlete to hydrate heavily throughout the day, and come to practices with light and loose clothing.

- Practice are typically every Monday - Thursday from 3:10 to approx. 4:55.

2025 Softball Schedule

                                                                                                                                                                                               Location

Immediately important information (like practice schedules, athletic fees, etc.) will always be pushed out by AD Harder and coaches via morning announcements, eblasts, fliers, and classroom visits until this webpage can be completed.

- Opening day games for softball (and baseball) are scheduled for Monday, Sept. 8th.

- All games (home and away) are scheduled to start as close to 4:20 as possible

- Until temperatures cool, encourage your athlete to hydrate heavily throughout the day, and come to practices with light and loose clothing.

- Practice are typically every Monday - Thursday from 3:10 to approx. 4:55.

Schedule

For the 25-26 season, the meet schedule has not been set yet. Note that there'll be quite a few to choose from, since we will be running meets that combine 1A and 2A schools.

I will once again be hosting a meet...but I am looking at hosting our meet at Barry Goldwater High School !

We have basic info here for now, since our Winter Parent Sport Night has not been scheduled yet. 

Immediately important information (like practice schedules, athletic fees, etc.) will be pushed out by AD Harder and coach via morning announcements, eblasts, fliers, and classroom visits until this webpage can be completed.

- Coach Jill Barron is once again helming XC this year !!

- Practices will most likely be starting on Sept. 23rd.

- Until temperatures cool, Coach Barron may choose to hold most of her practices in the morning.

- Practice are typically every Monday - Thursday, except on days of a meet, as well days after a meet in some cases.

Participation

Cross country is the only sport open to all 4 of the upper grades (5th - 8th), and we typically have around 35 team members. It is a 'no-cut' sport, which means that any student who can attend the majority of our practices is considered on the team and eligible to participate in meets.

Eligibility and Clearance

The 2 primary components to making sure your runner is eligible and cleared to run are making sure Norterra Canyon is provided with a current physical (within the last calendar year) and making sure your runner maintains acceptable scores in academics and citizenship.

Some more details

The sports are for NC students only of course, and will also be available to any potential DVOA students who are within the NC geographical boundary.

And as always…if you have any questions about sports in general, please come see or email Mr. Harder.

As with most sports, there is a $120 athletic fee, but that will not be assessed immediately, since I am willing to give students a week or two of practices to determine whether the sport is for them or not.

• As usual (since the cross country team’s size of roughly 33 runners makes it very unlikely that every runner will be available to do every meet), runners only have to run in a minimum of 2 of the 4 meets in order to qualify for the end of season championships.
• Meets will typically start around 4:15, and will almost see the 5^th & 6^th graders running first.
• 5^th & 6^th graders run 1.5 miles in meets, and 7^th & 8^th graders run 2 miles in meets.
• On days where runners may be absent from school, attending practices and meets is still an option.

• *** With cross country being in the winter this year, buses would have created situations where runners arrive too late...since meets have to start ASAP and end ASAP due to the early darkness in December and January. As a result, of course, the meets will be parent drop-off and pick-up.

Welcome to the Norterra Canyon basketball page.

We have basic info here for now, since our Spring Parent Sport Night has not been scheduled yet. We are also waiting to finalize our schedule for the season's games, since not all schools in our division may be able to field a full team.

Immediately important information (like practice schedules, athletic fees, etc.) will be pushed out by AD Harder and coaches via morning announcements, eblasts, fliers, and classroom visits until this webpage can be completed.

- We've confirmed that Tony Cosmano will be returning once again to lead Girls Basketball. We hope to confirm our Boys coach soon.

- Tryouts (for both squads) are currently scheduled for February 23rd.

- Opening day games for both squads are scheduled for March 24th.

- All games (home and away) are scheduled to start as close to 4:20 as possible

- Practice are typically every Monday - Thursday from 3:10 to approx. 4:55.

Tryouts, practices, and games :

• For basketball, any 6-8th grade boy is invited to attend tryouts...which will be Tuesday the 18th & Wednesday the 19th of February (for the boys) after school in the MPR.  Tryouts, like most practices, will be 3:10 - to approx. 4:55.
• All 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th graders are eligible to try out, but roster spots are reserved for 7th and 8th graders initially. NC allows for the potential use of 6th graders if and when a full and effective team cannot be fielded using only 7th and 8th graders.
• Athletes should wear durable but light athletic gear for basketball tryouts, and should avoid spending a lot of money on gear until they can be sure they are on the team.
• If an athlete does not have proper gear for tryouts, AD Harder can arrange some for them.
• Games (home and away) will usually start around 4:20.
• All away games will be parent drop-off…since bus transportation to most after-school activities has become very hard to schedule.
• Your athlete can bring an individual post-school snack, but the cafeteria may be planning on providing post-school snacks for athletes. There are also often parents of players who will offer to provide snacks for certain individual sporting events.
• Grades are checked weekly by the Athletic Office to ensure academic eligibility.
• Student-Athletes who do not meet eligibility requirements by the end of the week (Friday @ 3pm) are disqualified from all inter-school competition for the following week.
• Parents are encouraged to track their child’s academic progress.
• If a physical and/or athletic fee is still missing once the season officially starts, the student will have to forego game participation.

Some rules for speaking with coaches

• Coaches have 24 hours to process the results of a game and then initiate communication with their players (DVUSD policy)

• Please consider how you interact with a coach outside of the campus footprint (common courtesy).

As with any sport, students need to have a current physical on file in order to tryout for basketball.