class they teach is "Varsity Football" or "Varsity Basketball" or "Varsity Volleyball" and the JV and Frosh coaches coach the JV and Frosh counterparts on a different class period. Varsity classes are typically held during 1st or last period so they can run right into the official practice in-season.

These classes are essentially year round training/skill development taught by the coach of the respective sport and open only to the players or prospective players on that given team for a PE credit. It's not an official practice but part of the curriculum - so essentially the players get an extra hour of sport-specific conditioning, training, skill development during the entire school year. For players that are multi-sport - football/baseball the schools facilitate transfer at semester break. It was surprising to us when we moved from Pennsylvania but given the overall athletic success in Texas creating recruited/recruitable athletes maybe we shouldn't have been surprised.

Full disclosure, our daughter has played middle on varsity volleyball since her freshman year, and won state high-jump as a freshman (currently has leading state 5A height as a sophomore this track season (nationally all HS ranked #12)). Her athletic goals have flourished since our move here during her 8th grade year.