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Winter Sports 2020-21

Recommendation to approve the Health & Safety Plan which allows participation in the 2020-21 season.

• Local schedule (league only) for the regular season
• Delayed start
• Mitigation efforts
• Health & safety over competition

Basketball ○ Swimming ○ Bocce ○ Wrestling ○ Cheerleading Winter Track & Field ○ Rowing Winter Training ○ Offseason Programs

League Only Scheduling Model

Middle School - Wrestling phase 1 workouts & Basketball tryouts start November 30th

Earliest official start January 4th

High School - Open & voluntary workouts transition on November 10th

Earliest official start November 30th

Winter Sports 2020-21

Health & Safety Highlights

• Preference to outdoors when possible
• Polar bear T&F meets
• Limit spectators (2 family-spectators / athlete)
• No locker rooms - “quick changing rooms only”
• Limit bus transportation
• Masking, Distancing, Screening
• Consideration for closure threshold

Current Recommendations

Sport Mask

(During Activity)

Outdoors Indoors Phased Start Basketball ✓ ✓ Swimming ✓ ✓ Cheerleading ✓ ✓ Wrestling ✓* ✓ ✓ Bocce ✓ ✓ Winter T&F ✓ Rowing ✓

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Current Recommendations

Masks

• Coaches & staff must always be wearing masks indoor and outdoor
• Current health conditions require masking during indoor activity
• During outdoor activity, while heart-rate is increased, masking is not required for

athletes

• It is not viable to wear a mask for swimming or live wrestling * (add’l. details below)
• Mask is required before and after practice and while on the sidelines

Indoor & Outdoor

• Indoor gym usage should finish by 9pm each night
• Swimming practices at Kennett YMCA. Comp. Cheer practices at KX Gym
• Outdoor practice will be shortened or canceled in the event of poor weather conditions

Phased Start (Swim)

• Based on facility restrictions, there’s a possibility for no swim meets during the month of

December

* Phased Start (Wrestling)

Based on uncertainty of health risks, we will use a phased approach. Pod practicing implemented.

• Phase 1 - Low-contact wrestling activities only, which require full masking. Prioritize
• utdoor cardio & strength training when possible
• Phase 2 - Moderate-contact wrestling activities only, which require full masking
• Phase 3 - Limited duration high intensity drilling & live wrestling
• Phase 4 - Normal wrestling training session & competition w/ standard mitigation

Winter Sports 2020-21

C-M League HSP CHOP PolicyLab PIAA Sport Consideration Athletics Task Force

Joe Vogler Pat Crater Jodie Weaver Kathy Walsh-Shell Sydney Schnarrs James Whitesel Mark Kline Pat Clark Allison Newbrough Tricia Harlan Marco Sordi Christa Fazio Janelle Hadley Emma Dempsey

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