High School Athletics

As you all know by now, our school is not meeting in the traditional sense and all athletic competitions have been suspended until further notice.  Additionally, we await a decision on if, and when, spring sport teams may resume practice.  As frustrating and heartbreaking as this is to many of our young athletes, we must all recognize that the health and safety for them, and all people, is our absolute priority.

With all this in mind, and recognizing that this turn of events is not in each of our control, the question now becomes how are each of us ready for “the next play”.

I absolutely believe in our students’ ability to not only handle this adversity, but rather come out stronger because of it.  It is our duty as adults, parents, teachers, and coaches to lead by example in encouraging healthy habits in helping to slow the growth of this very dangerous virus.  We do this with calm, thoughtful, and sometimes firm, actions.

To be clear, our students do not have a one month break from school and responsibility in general.  In fact, they must now be more responsible for their own actions, starting with not taking this newfound free time as an excuse to go places and meet in large groups.  They must be prepared to carry on their learning online, starting Friday.  They must also be made aware that their decisions will affect others as well as themselves.  Of course, these same principles apply to us adults as well.

Our school has thrived over the years in large part due to our school administration, teachers, parents, and most importantly, our students being good teammates to, and for, each other.  We must continue to be good teammates in times like these, especially in times like these.  We must be good teammates not only to our own community, but to all others as well.  If you have the ability, please be considerate and helpful to all of those in need since we are all going through this difficult time and we are really all on the same team.

It can be very frustrating in not knowing what lies ahead.  We will try to keep everyone updated when new information surfaces.  Until then, let’s all keep focused on simply doing the best, most healthy things in the current moment.