Changes For High School Sports This Fall

WAAY 31's Max Cohan was live in Decatur with what parents can expect to see this year.

To see there this year.

This afternoon decatur city schools' athletic director outlined the changes we'll see with fall sports this year.

While all sports have some slight changes, varsity football will be impacted most significantly.

"we're going to be changing over, this is a big change, we will be accepting no money at the gate this year for varsity football."

Athletic director watt parker says the district is taking a number of precautions to keep fans and athletes safe this year -- starting with ticketing.

Unlike years past, tickets for varsity football, and only varsity football, must be purchased in advance and only students can purchase tickets at school -- everyone else will have to buy them online.

Additionally, stadium capacity will be limited based on community covid numbers, but the district did not give specific limits.

Also new this year -- fans will be required to stay on the side of the stadium they enter, with no cross over allowed.

Face coverings will be required in the stands.

On the field, the home band will now preform its half time show pregame and the visiting band will not perform on the field at all.

Only cheerleaders will perform at the half.

For all other sports, ticketing will be as it always has and aside from masks and distancing, capacity is the only real change.

"we're planning on full go because if you don't plan on full go, itll never happen.

We can stop it in a day, but you can't get it rolling in a day so that's exactly where we are.

We're planning on everything to go well and working our best to make it happen."

This afternoon decatur city schools' athletic director outlined the changes we'll see with fall sports this year.

While all sports have some slight changes, varsity football will be impacted most significantly.