After school sports shuttered
Governor's order axes school's plans
Last updated 11/16/2020 at 6:24pm
DAVENPORT-The Gorillas were planning to begin after-school practices for boys and girl's basketball and wrestling today, Nov. 16. Those plans were axed after Gov. Jay Inslee's latest measures to fight the rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus were announced yesterday, Nov. 15.
All after-school practices and activities are postponed until further notice, the district announced via its Facebook page.
"It's not safe right now," athletic director Tim Zeiler said. "I talked to other athletic directors in the district and they're shutting down, too."
The measures, which also include shutting down indoor dining at restaurants and limiting retail business capacity, state youth and adult amateur sporting activities are limited to outdoors only with facial coverings. All of Davenport's winter sports are indoor sports.
Zeiler named Odessa and St. George's as two Bi-County 2B schools who shut down after-school activities after Inslee's latest proclamation.
"Until we get further direction from the governor or WIAA, our hands are tied," Zeiler said.
Odessa athletic director Bruce Todd confirmed that the Tigers won't be having any sports practices until further notice. The school's only outdoor sport that had athletes practicing was football, and those athletes wrapped up practice last week. Basketball practices were going to get going this week.
Todd said he hopes more guidance on what the school can and can't do with their athletes will come from the WIAA soon. The WIAA is meeting tomorrow, Nov. 17.
"The guidelines were clear as mud from the governor's side," Todd said.
Reardan originally planned to hold outdoor conditioning in pods of six, but co-athletic director Brian Graham informed The Times that school leadership decided to cancel that around five minutes before school got out today.
The state reported over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases per day over the weekend. Average cases in the state have doubled in the last two weeks.
This is a developing story. More information will be added when it becomes available.
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