What's next for spring sports?

What's next for spring sports?

As coronavirus continues to spread... it's making life difficult on coaches á administrators á and studentá athletes while they wonder what's next.

Káiámát news three sports director á kaleb gillock á is finding out what they would like to see done./// we practiced our social distancing today by conducting our calls through facetime.

But i was able to talk with two coaches and a parent about what they hope to see once sports make their return at the high school level.xxx the most challenging thing about this is you never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.

There's no doubt about it á these past two weeks have been weighing on the shoulders of coaches and activities directors across the country.

Lourdes softball coach á becky macken á is hoping for what she calls an abbreviated season... where players would only play conference games and the postseason.

She admits she saw this coming á so she took a proactive approach instead.

Before all of this happened i kind of planned ahead and our trainer actually provided a bunch of training videos that we have online for the girls to keep physical fit.

While the schools are closed á practices and face to face training is prohibited á steve strickland á the activities director and track coach at lourdes high school in rochester says they will need to have some type of training period when spring sports do return.

We're going to need something.

You look and softball has one week in.

Baseball has one week of throwing you know no hitting or any of that kind of stuff.

When you're looking at team sports, they need to get some almost like some spring training in.

They're going to need time.

So what's being done to persuade governing bodies like the másáhásál and the iowa high school athletic association to make a logical decision.

One mother from webster city has started a petition.

She says it's only fair to these kids like her son who has shot at winning a state track title.

I want to get our state back on its feet and give these kids a chance.

They're our future and i think it's huge and important to show them the positive reaction that we're having.

Making sure that they get a good chance and a good shot at what they deserve.

They've all worked hard.

We'll continue to make voices like these heard while we work through this pandemic together... hoping that it will help bring sports back in a safe and timely manner.

Until then.... we'll wait.

It's frustrating to say the least the minnesota state high school league did say in its statement yesterday that a decision regarding return protocol will be made when and if governor walz reopens schools.///