PIAA PUNCHES FORWARD via Keith Groller, Morning Call @KeithGroller
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Billy Splain | July 16, 2020
Despite a flurry of college leagues canceling fall sports and rising numbers of cases of COVID-19 in certain sections of Pennsylvania, the PIAA announced on Wednesday that it hasn’t changed the schedule for the start of its fall sports seasons.
“With the climate we have now, we don’t feel we have to [make a change], but if other information comes forward, we will look at it,” PIAA executive director Robert Lombardi said in a virtual press conference after the PIAA board’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting. “There are a lot of things we’re willing to do, but you heard loud and clear from our board that our philosophy is to get whatever we can and as much as we can in for every student-athlete in the state so they can participate.
“We want kids to be kids and get the experience of playing athletics,” Lombardi added. “We’re going to do whatever we can while working through the framework provided from the governor’s office, the department of health and department of education to do that.”
The heat acclimation period for football is set to begin Aug. 10 with all other fall sports to begin Aug. 17. The first scheduled games in football are slated for Aug. 28.
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