High School Football Returns To Burke In Fall 2021

BURKE, VA — It has been a two-year wait for the return of Friday night fall football in many American communities, where gathering at the local high school stadium has become a long-standing early school year tradition.

That’s not the case in Burke. After the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the 2020 football season, Virginia high school football teams played a shortened season in the spring.

In 2021, the Virginia High School League teams' first games will be held Aug. 23 to 28. After the season wraps up, regional quarterfinals will be held on Nov. 13, semifinals are scheduled for Dec. 4, and championships are scheduled for Dec. 11.

In some places, such as Illinois, high school football is making a return to the fall after a 2020 season that was largely put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of taking the field last fall, many schools held football season in the spring — which, on school sports calendars, can run anywhere from February through June.

This year, the season has already begun in some states. Fall football season at the high school level has already kicked off in Alaska and Utah, according to MaxPreps.com, a site covering high school athletics nationwide. Sixteen more states will begin contests on the weekend of Aug. 20-21, with others set to begin either the final weekend of August or in early September.

Here are the schedules for Burke area high school varsity football teams.

Lake Braddock Secondary School

• Aug. 27 vs. Hayfield Secondary School, home
• Sept. 2 vs. James Madison High School, away
• Sept. 17 vs. North Stafford High School, away
• Sept. 24 vs. Annandale High School, away
• Oct. 1 vs. South Lakes High School, home
• Oct. 8 vs. Alexandria City High School, home
• Oct. 15 vs. Robinson Secondary School, away
• Oct. 22 vs. Fairfax High School, away
• Oct. 29 vs. W.T. Woodson High School, home

Robinson Secondary School

• Aug. 27 vs. South Lakes High Schoool, away
• Sept. 2 vs. Annandale High School, away
• Sept. 10 vs. Justice High School, away
• Sept. 17 vs. Chantilly High School, home
• Sept. 24 vs. Thomas Edison High School, home
• Oct. 8 vs. West Springfield High School, away
• Oct. 15 vs. Lake Braddock Secondary School, home
• Oct. 22 vs. W.T. Woodson High School, home
• Oct. 29 vs. Fairfax High School, away
• Nov. 5 vs. West Potomac High School, home

West Springfield High School

• Aug. 27 vs. Mount Vernon High School, home
• Sept. 3 vs. Thomas Edison High School, away
• Sept. 17 vs. Washington-Lee High School, away
• Sept. 24 vs. Hayfield Secondary School, away
• Oct. 1 vs. Oakton High School, home, Homecoming
• Oct. 8 vs. Robinson Secondary School, home
• Oct. 15 vs. South County High School, home
• Oct. 22 vs. Alexandria City High School, away
• Oct. 29 vs. West Potomac High School, away
• Nov. 5 vs. Fairfax High School, home