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Natalia Chavez, center, is mobbed by her Volcano Vista teammates after hitting a shot from beyond 45 feet at the OT buzzer to beat Hobbs for the 5A girls basketball title. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
Saturday, April 10, as much as any day, defined the staggering weirdness of the spring 2021 prep sports semester in New Mexico.
On the same day, the state was staging fall sports in the form of state soccer finals, winter sports in the form of basketball, and the start of spring sports. That kind of confluence had never before occurred.
Or, maybe it was April 1 that underlined this point with more clarity, with prep football played inside University Stadium, part of a five-games-in-three days “bowl game” experiment by the New Mexico Activities Association in lieu of an actual football postseason.
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Vaccinated high school athletes can finally remove their masks.
With the 2021 spring/summer prep calendar only nine days from completion, the state on Thursday morning said those high school athletes who are fully vaccinated can compete on “the field of play” without a mask.
“Face coverings shall be worn at all times by participants three and older,” is the new language in New Mexico’s COVID-safe practices for youth sports, as released by the office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. “The only exception is for fully vaccinated players on the field of play. A person is considered fully vaccinated when they reach two weeks after their second dose of Pfizer and Moderna or two weeks after their one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. …