NEWS AND NOTES FROM PRESS ROW High school fall season athletics given the green light to return to play
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@LorenKopff on Twitter • February 25, 2021
Athletes, coaches, parents and school administrators have been waiting for 11 months for high school athletics to resume and that time has come for some counties in California. Last Friday, the CIF-Southern Section released an update on the return to play for athletes, which included the latest adjusted case rate it received from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office and the California Department of Public Health.
For outdoor athletics to happen, a county must have a case rate of 14, or fewer, per 100,000 people. Last Friday, Los Angeles County was at 20.0 and Orange County was at 20.7. However, this past Tuesday, those numbers had dropped to 12.3 and 11.9 respectively. That means that boys and girls cross country, football, girls volleyball and boys and girls water polo can begin conditioning, practicing and playing games/events. The CIF-SS had previously cancelled all fall sports championships, but encouraged its member schools to have games if a return to play was to happen. The end dates for the fall sports range anywhere from Mar. 20-Apr. 17.