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    New COVID-19 safety guidance released after multi-county outbreak linked to high school wrestling tournaments > Washington State Department of Health

    For immediate release: December 17, 2021   (21-250)Spanish Contact: DOH Communications Public inquiries: State COVID-19 Information Hotline, 1-800-525-0127 New COVID-19 safety guidance released after multi-county outbreak linked to high school wrestling tournaments OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH), is updating the health and safety requirements for high contact indoor sports in the wake of a multi-school, multi-county outbreak. The outbreaks are linked to a series of wrestling tournaments held in early December and are linked to an estimated 200 COVID-19 cases. Genomic sequencing recently confirmed at least three cases are omicron. DOH takes these outbreaks very seriously and is changing the existing guidance by adding the following health and safety…

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    Cover Up! New York Keeps High School Indoor Sports Mask Mandate

    With the fall sports season transitioning to the winter, the days of open-air fields and stadiums have come to a close for the time being. With the transition indoors, the transition back to wearing masks follows, according to the state of New York. New York State Requiring Masks at High School Indoor Sporting Events In conjunction with New York state’s most recent mandate, which require masks indoors at such places as schools, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association has upheld its mask regulations at indoor sporting events from a season ago. The regulations will also be enforced at this weekend’s New York state high school football championships,…

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    Cummings High School honors Air Cavs founder Connell Graham with first victory vs. Burlington Williams since 2011

    A stream of talent has poured through the Air Cavs Sports Club for 3½ decades now. For a long stretch in Alamance County football history, those players built up the Cummings High School football program into a perennial state championship contender. And now, as the Cavaliers attempt to recapture some of the success previous Cummings teams discovered, the influence from the Air Cavs program is still strong. For the first time since 2011, the Cummings High School football team defeated Williams High School on a football field Friday night. Afterwards, a handful of current Cavaliers players dedicated the victory to Connell Graham, one of the Air Cavs founders, who passed away…

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    High school sports, marching bands can can start fall season maskless

    High school athletes and marching bands are taking the field across central Ohio as the fall sports season begins — and many are leaving their masks behind. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has encouraged athletes to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying it’s the “ticket” to allowing athletes to live up to their dreams and compete. The state is allowing individual school districts to decide what COVID-19 protocols to put in place when it comes to sports and extracurricular activities, such as band, as concerns about the virus pick up again. As cases continue to rise throughout Ohio due to the highly contagious delta variant, Franklin County and five other counties in central Ohio have jumped to the second-highest level on…

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    Illinois fall high school sports practices begin amid indoor mask mandate for athletes | St. Louis News Headlines

    (KMOV.com) – Illinois high schools resumed athletic practices Monday after several schools had to do a shortened or delayed season last year due to COVID-19. “It’s a really great time for our kids, for our school buildings to come back to life after a tough year last year,” said Belleville Township High School District superintendent Brian Mentzer.  Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced new mitigations to stop the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant. This comes less than a week after Illinois governor JB Pritzker mandated all athletes participating in indoor sports wear masks. The mandate means the football team, for example, does not need to wear a mask when…

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    Milford High boys volleyball coach Andrew Mainini opens outdoor league

    MILFORD — With the sound of wet grass squishing beneath his feet on Monday night, Andrew Mainini stood before a collection of Milford, Nipmuc and Bellingham boys volleyball players outside of Milford High School. The Milford High boys volleyball coach watched on during the second night of his first annual Milford Grass Volleyball League. “This is probably as good of a turnout as I could have expected for our first year,” said Mainini, a 2007 Milford High alum. “I think once word gets out, we’re gonna have even more interest. I’m expecting a big turnout next summer.” A little over a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak…

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