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The Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools will mirror the Virginia High School League plan to reopen sports for the upcoming school year with three condensed sports season.
Hampton Roads athletes, coaches, parents can get the red pencil out and circle Dec. 14 – the first day a high school sports team can hold in-season practices.
The plan, one of three proposed to the committee, would postpone the start of the high school sports season until Dec. 14, with the first games not occurring until Dec. 28.
In a letter sent home to parents, Kempsville Principal Melissa George said the school was informed, “of an individual who was participating in athletic conditioning on our field July 13 and 14 and has since tested positive for COVID-19.”
In one option, the winter season would be first and run from Dec. 14 through Feb. 20, fall sports would run from Feb. 15 through May 1 and spring sports would run from April 12 until June 26.
Opening dates for fall sports practice are looming. The VHSL needs to put together and make public a tentative plan for fall sports that encompasses every possibility.
The VHSL Executive Committee met Thursday and were scheduled to put together the framework for a fall sports season, but VHSL Executive Director Billy Haun tabled discussions, saying the committee didn’t have enough information to make any decisions.