We are excited to start the season with your child, but before we begin, it is important to let you know about the risks of sports during this pandemic. While we are carefully following every safety rule from our health departments and from MSHSAA, there are still some issues you should know about:
We are taking precautions during our practices and games. You and your child can expect the following:
Arrival Instructions:
Please remember to keep your child home if they feel ill, if they have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or if they have been directly exposed to someone with COVID-19. Call our school nurse if you have any questions.
- Some sports do not allow for social distancing. This is particularly true with basketball and wrestling.
- Student athletes do not wear masks when they are scrimmaging, conditioning, or playing an actual game or match.
- If someone on the team or on an opposing team has COVID-19, the entire team could be quarantined. This could happen more than once in a season.
We are taking precautions during our practices and games. You and your child can expect the following:
- Only players and coaches are allowed in the School building.
- Attendance will be taken each day at the beginning of the session.
- Players will be assigned to a cohort group and will stay with the same group and same coach when possible.
- Players MUST adhere to social distancing of at least 6 feet when not involved in basketball activities on the court
- This includes inside the gym, gym lobby, and outside in the parking lot while awaiting their rides.
- Equipment will be cleaned by coaches before, during and after sessions.
- One restroom will be utilized with only one person at a time in the restroom.
- Regular breaks will be provided to use hand sanitizer that will be supplied in the practice space.
- Players need to bring their own water. Drinking fountains will be available only for filling bottles.
- Please do not come to practice or play a match with any viral symptoms and specifically with a fever of over 100.3 degrees.
Arrival Instructions:
- Social distancing of at least 6 feet MUST begin upon arrival in the gym
- Please use hand sanitizer (we provide) each time you enter the gym and maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet on the way into the gym and inside the gym.
- Athletes are required to sanitize their hands when leaving the gym
- Athletes will need to leave as soon as practice is over. Please do not congregate in the hallway or out front afterwards.
Please remember to keep your child home if they feel ill, if they have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or if they have been directly exposed to someone with COVID-19. Call our school nurse if you have any questions.