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Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A-37
Shelton High School’s Carlie Thompson, shown here during a game against
Capital High School last is among the seniors waiting to see
they will allowed to play high school sports during 2020-21 Thompson is a
of Highclimbers girls basketball and girls soccer
teams. Journal file photo Justin Johnson
Start of high schOol sports Seasons again delayed
Justin Johnson
justin@masoncounty. com
As confirmed and suspected cases
of novel coronavirus have in-
creased dramatically during recent
weeks in Washington, preparation
for a hoped-for upcoming high school
sperts year has ground to a halt.
At a Nov. 18 meeting of the Wash-
ington Interscholastic Activities As-
sociation executive board, the state’s
FAB POST
governing body of high school sports
and activities voted to delay the start
of season two —— which includes tra-
ditional winter sports such as basket-
ball and wrestling— to Feb. 1 and
shorten seasons to seven weeks. The
seasons had been scheduled to start
Dec. 28.
Season two is now scheduled to run
from Feb. 1 to March 20, while season
three —— which'includes football, girls
soccer, volleyball and cross country
— will begin March 15 (March 8 for
football). Season four traditional
spring sports such as baseball, fast-
pitch and track and field will sta
April 26 and end June 12. '
A statement by the board said the
decision was made because surging
COVID-19 cases around the state.
Gov. Jay Inslee in mid-November
ordered all indoor sports practices to
halt and outdoor training is limited to
pods of six or athletes.
In framework approved by the
board for each WIAA season, local
schools and districts have some flex-
ibility due to established protocols.
If less than 50 percent of schools.
in a classification are able to compete
in a sport, in accordance with state
Department of Health guidelines, the
executive board will make an adjust-
ment to the scheduled season in order
to allow the chance for greater partici-
pation, the release said.
College football season lacks any semblence of integrity ‘
BvaUSTIN
JOHNSON
love college sports.
Having spent more than two decades
in and around an NCAA Division I uni-
versity department —— both from the outside
as a reporter charged with covering some of
the school’s teams and inside as an athletic
communications professional working directly
with those coaches and athletes — I’ve seen
up close the commitment it takes from all par-
ties to compete.
That’s why it pains me to say it, but this
year’s NCAA football season has become a
complete farce and it seems that college hoops
aren’t far behind.
As confirmed cases of the novel coronavi-
rus have surged nationwide in recent weeks,
the college football season has become wildly
unbalanced with cancelations from coast-t0-
coast.
Those cancelations have shattered whatev-
er integrity this COVID-19-shortened season
had tried to build.
Take the Pacific-12 Conference for in-
stance.
The league initially canceled fall football,
' electing to play in the spring when it was
hoped that the pandemic would be undercon-
trol enough.
College football’s other big-money leagues
like the Southeastern Conference weren’t
having it, though, and plowed ahead with
plans to play this fall after only a short delay.
The Pas-12, along with the Mountain West
Conference and a handful of other leagues,
see FAR POST, page A-38