Are you ready for spring football?
That will be one of the changes the Minnesota State High School League approved at its August 4 Board Meeting when it decided to switch the football and volleyball seasons to early spring, starting in mid-March and moving the spring sports season into mid May and running into the summer.
These changes were implemented due to the COVID 19 pandemic that shut down the spring sports season and made the fall season uncertain with the rising number of positive COVID 19 tests throughout the nation.
But there will be good news for fall sports participants, coaches and fans. The season will go one for soccer, cross country, girls tennis and and girls swimming but will be a bit shorter than usual. The boys and girls soccer seasons will be reduced by 20%. But will there be section and state tournament play?
Looking at the St. Louis Park soccer schedules (where the author of this blog will begin his 25th season as the public address announcer), many of the nonconference games have been deleted. How many will there be? The MSHSL Board stated that teams should play only one or two games per week.
As the fall sports season has been settled, what about winter sports such as basketball and hockey? Will fans be allowed to attend? Will the seasons proceed as scheduled?
Fall sports practice begins August 17.
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