The governing bodies of high school sports in both Massachusetts are slated to meet today and tomorrow to decide, whether there will be a fall sports season and if so how it will actually be done.
Both the CIAC and MIAA which govern sports will meet. In Massachusetts the MIAA will consider a State Department of Education recommendation that football and other high profile and high risk sports be shelved because of the pandemic.
In Connecticut, officials there will meet with the State Department of Public Health to see if there can be a safe way to do some kind of a sports season for high school athletes. That meeting has been moved to 5:30 Thursday afternoon in order to accomodate all members of the committees involved.
Under the current recommendation in Massachusetts there would be no competitive football, cheer leading or unified sports. Further, any community which is considered "in the red" on a state map of coronavirus hot spots would not be able to play under any set of circumstances. High risk areas, of which Holyoke and Granby are the only two western Mass communities, are considered to be more than 8 cases per 100 thousand residents.
Also under the Massachusetts plan, low risk sports like soccer, fall swimming and cross country could go ahead starting September 18th.
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