When teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District go on strike on Monday, all sports will stop — something that will impact thousands of area athletes wrapping up their winter sports seasons. (Glenn James/Getty Images)

Thousands of high school athletes across the Los Angeles area will see their sports seasons come to a screeching, sudden halt on Monday morning.

Nearly 31,000 teachers, librarians, nurses and counselors are set to go on strike on Monday in the Los Angeles Unified School District — the second-largest school system in the country with nearly 500,000 students spread across 863 campuses in 26 cities throughout L.A. County.

The strike — centered around class sizes, funding and teacher salaries, and adding full-time nurses to every school — will mark the first in Los Angeles in 30 years.

While school will still be in session, something that has caused numerous logistical problems, all sports will stop, according to the Los Angeles Times. Practices and games will not be allowed throughout the duration of the strike at the 88 high schools in the City Section.

The strike comes at a tough time in the high school sports calendar, too. Basketball, soccer, wrestling and girls water polo are all wrapping up their regular seasons this month — meaning teams will miss critical games with playoff and postseason implications. If the strike isn’t resolved soon — the previous one lasted nine days — the seasons could simply be scrapped completely without any postseason whatsoever.

“The playoffs are only about five weeks away,” City Section Sports Information Dick Dornan told the L.A. Daily News last week. “The seeding meetings for basketball and soccer are on the weekend of Feb. 2 … this strike can potentially leave many teams with incomplete league standings, leaving an imbalanced number of games played.”

Baseball is set to begin on February 9, too, one of many spring sports that could be delayed if the strike is still going.

While Dornan said the priority is to “get all championship games played,” he hopes teams are able to make up as many missed games as possible. The longer the strike goes, though, the smaller the window is to do that.

“Any games that are lost during the strike, we want to encourage schools to re-schedule those games between the end of the strike and the beginning of the playoffs,” Dornan told the Daily News. “If both teams cannot agree to a makeup date, the game is considered a ‘no contest’ – no winner, no loser, it’s as if the game is not on the schedule.”

Until both sides have resolved the issue, it seems that Los Angeles-area athletes will be on their own to continue practicing and staying in shape — only able to hope that they can finish out their seasons as normally as possible.

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