The same pandemic-related questions that have bedeviled professional and college sports are front and center for high school administrators across the country and they are far more complicated.
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2016 file photo, Royal quarterback Kaden Jenks celebrates with the trophy after Royal beat Connell in the Washington Div. 1A high school football championship in Tacoma, Wash.
Mark Uyl goes through all the different scenarios, contingencies and endless concerns daily as the head of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. As the clock ticks closer to the start of the new school year, the uncertainty is compounded by the complexity. The fifty states plus the District of Columbia all have different governing bodies for prep sports, different priorities and different pressures.
“We’ve got a lot of decisions to make. I wish we had answers. I wish there was a silver bullet. There’s not,” said Tim Teykl, head football coach at Alvin High School outside of Houston. “I don’t know if we’re going to have a football season. I don’t know if we’re going to have school. I’m going to continue to fight and claw as if we are. And then if not, we’ll do what we’re told to do.”
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