SPORTS OPINION

Athletes should fight to play sports

Athletes and to play sports, we must continue to play coronavirus, students have quarantined teams fight Some people believe that sports themselves and switched to remote to keep their should not have even begun their learning if they are involved in a fall seasons alive amid seasons due to the risks and fears of sport. Through this, they can ensure that COVID-19-19 fears at competing during a pandemic. Now they they will not fall victim to contact tracing the high school. want to simply cancel sports or games or even coronavirus as a result of being

Despite procedures when a single threat of the virus comes. in school. Student-athletes successfully and the following of For example, a volleyball game was participated in online school while still

WHIT MILLER COVID-19 regulations, sports are in danger canceled because one person had the virus in our school who wasn’t even being able to participate in sports which was very important to the continuation of being cancelled for related to the volleyball team. This plays of fall sports. This strategy of remaining this season. Many believe they should into their argument that athletes and at home if you are on a team may hold stay as long as safety and guidelines are schools in general are not being careful the key to keeping sports in play all year still in effect. enough and that the risk outweighs the while still remaining safe.

The threat of COVID-19-19 interrupting reward especially if this is the case. As If students do there part and follow seasons looms large but that does not long as proper precautions are in place protocols, sports are safe and need to be mean athletes, coaches, and schools and people follow COVID-19 guidelines, played. If the student-athletes go online should give up. Teams as well as the sports and games are completely safe. and further reduce the risk of contracting school should work to keep sports going In the high school, we have had only the coronavirus, the prospect of playing as long as proper safety regulations and a few confirmed positive tests, and the sports becomes even safer. COVID-19 protocols are followed. response by the school was swift. The Sports are an intricate and very

Sports are very important to our differences in our school from social important aspect of our identity as Blue identity, and we should keep them going distancing to using wipes to clean desks, Aces and because of that, we need to as long as possible, especially if the state to wearing masks is consistent with the fight for them. As long as guidelines are and other schools continue to play. We policies of the athletic program all in an followed and COVID-19 is kept at bay, have a very storied and successful athlet- effort to keep kids safe. sports need to go on. ic program and as long as we are allowed In efforts to remain safe and free of the

Athlete Opinion: Why do you play high school sports?

“It’s a commitment that will pay off in memories.” -Garrett Sharps, Football

“I play for the connections I get with not only my teammates but girls from other schools as well, plus it truly feels like a family away from home. -Carly Mayer, Volleyball

“Running in high school not only means being a teammate and an athlete. To me running in high school means being the best version of myself.” -Daniel Pappas, Cross Country

“I think playing “Playing sports sports is important means more than throughout high the world, it means school to stay fit and everything. It’s an active, it also gives unbelievable time me a sense of unity and something I and to understand could never give up.” what working as a -Gavin Wells, team is all about.” Football -Caroline Otter,

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