From high school baseball to local golfers, the snowpack has caused problems and delays for many. How are high school and recreational sports dealing with the continued impact of Utah's record snowfall?
A solitary track hurdle is surrounded in a layer of snow at Highland High School on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. The snow has impacted spring sports a ton. Canceled games, logistical scheduling nightmares or finding unique solutions to get the snow out.High school fields completely buried. City golf courses unable to open. Recreational areas with delays.blows past the end of winter into the first few weeks of spring.
Among those solutions, Feasler said, are ground thawing machines and going out to shovel once the pack lightens. They even will reach out to someone they heard about in a news report who uses a drone to drop garden fertilizer that is mixed with soil to help melt snow faster.The girls’ lacrosse team at Brighton High should’ve played six games by now, but has only played two, coach Melissa Nash said.
Kirk Merhish, Brighton’s track and field coach, said the Bengals have hosted only one region meet and attended one invitational this season. Rescheduling meets proves difficult because so many other spring sports share the same facilities and fields, he said. The track and field team has also helped shovel the field and track, which takes “hours.”
Part of the concern for coaches is that their seniors were freshmen in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of spring sports. The next year, multiple quarantines affected play as well. It’s not just high school sports that have been struggling amid all the snow. Golfers in Salt Lake who use the city’s six public courses have been swinging and putting far less compared to this time in previous years.
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