National High School Colors Week to be Celebrated This Week

INDIANAPOLIS – For the third consecutive year, National High School Colors Week is being celebrated this week as many of the 12-million plus students involved in high school sports, performing arts and other activity programs – along with millions of fans in communities nationwide – will be proudly displaying the distinctive colors of their schools.

The NFHS is sponsoring and promoting National High School Colors Week to encourage continued support for the importance of education-based activity programs in the nation’s 20,000 high schools.

Throughout the week, students, parents and other fans can post photos to social media in their high school colors and share what they love most about high school football using #ThisIsHSFootball and #HSColorsWeek.

“Millions of Americans made lasting friendships and have great memories from their involvement in high school sports and other activity programs,” said Dr. Karissa Niehoff, CEO of the NFHS. “Our school colors, mascot and song are things we proudly carry with us throughout our lives, and this week is a special time to celebrate those once-in-a-lifetime experiences.”

  While football may be considered the traditional fall sport with red and white, blue and gold, green and white, black and orange, purple and gold (among many others) uniforms, millions of other students this week will be competing in cross country, field hockey, flag football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball. And there are also students involved in speech and debate, music and theatre activities.

“National High School Colors Week is a time to celebrate the memories, tradition and pride of high school sports and other activity programs – not just for the 12-plus million currently involved in these programs, but for the hundreds of millions of men and women whose lives and careers were pointed in the right direction as a result of their participation,” Niehoff said. “The opportunity to wear a high school uniform with the school colors within an education-based setting does not exist in most countries around the world. It is a privilege, not a right, and one that is not taken lightly, as we discovered a few years ago during the pandemic.

“High school sports have been a part of communities throughout our country for more than 100 years, and National High School Colors Week is a great time for communities to show those colors at events throughout the week – and ending the week by packing the house at the Friday night football game.”