6A — THE OBSERVER
SPORTS
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2020
OSAA gives guidance to
schools on resuming sports
Schools will have some control of how
they handle athletics beginning Tuesday
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By Ronald Bond
for the 6-foot minimum.
Coaches and students
should be screened daily
for COVID-19 symptoms,
including a temperature
check, and sent home
if they have a tempera-
ture greater than 100.3
degrees.
Any student or coach
who wishes to wear a
cloth face covering should
be allowed to do so, and
personnel that may not
be able to maintain dis-
tancing measures —
coaches, offi cials or others
— are “strongly encour-
aged” to wear a cloth face
covering.
OSAA is discouraging
the use of locker rooms in
Phase 1, instead recom-
mending students show
up for activities in proper
attire and immediately
returning home to shower.
Training clothing should
also be washed immedi-
ately after use.
Any athletic equipment
used, including weights or
balls, should be cleaned
between uses.
OSAA also has
grouped its sports into
three categories: low,
moderate or high infec-
tion risk.
It names cross-country,
track and fi eld, swim-
ming, golf and tennis as
low risk activities; vol-
leyball, soccer, baseball,
softball and basketball as
moderate risk; and foot-
ball, wrestling, cheer-
leading and dance/drill as
high risk.
Volleyball, baseball and
softball could be labeled
low risk with appropriate
equipment cleaning and
use of masks.
Conditioning and indi-
vidual work are recom-
The Observer
LA GRANDE — The
Oregon School Activities
Association announced
last week that, beginning
Tuesday, schools will be
in control of what athletic
activities they allow.
This means
student-athletes may be
able to begin summer
activities and the process
of moving back to a sense
of normalcy.
But it won’t be a carte
blanche return to the way
things were before the
coronavirus shut down
the sports world in March.
Instead, the schools have
received guidance from
the OSAA, Oregon Health
Authority and Oregon
Department of Education
on how they can begin the
process.
OSAA also will be
lifting this year’s morato-
rium week, which would
have been July 26-Aug.
1. The moratorium is
a mandated seven-day
period where coaches and
administrators are pro-
hibited from having con-
tact with student-athletes,
according to the OSAA
website.
Schools in counties
that have entered Phase
1 of Gov. Kate Brown’s
reopening criteria — this
includes all of eastern and
southern Oregon — are
able to engage in summer
activities, and school
facilities can be reopened
the day following the end
of a district’s school year.
Even with the easing
of restrictions, the recom-
mendations for schools put
a limit on activities.
Gatherings, regardless
if they are indoors or out-
doors, are capped at 25
people.
OSAA recommends
workouts are conducted
in “pods” of fi ve to 10
individuals. Pods should
include the same individ-
uals each time to reduce
the risk of transmis-
sion. Social distancing
is required at all times,
and if that cannot be done
indoors, then pod sizes
should be reduced to allow
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mended, and to be done
in ways to maintain social
distancing.
For running events,
this means no running in
groups.
For activities such as
volleyball, soccer or bas-
ketball, it means indi-
vidual ball-handling
drills, one ball per indi-
vidual, and not passing
or hitting/kicking a ball
between multiple people.
Contact is not allowed
in any sport.
Tee work is suggested
for baseball and soft-
ball, and cage work can
be done by one player at
a time. Bats and gloves
should not be shared, and
balls should be cleaned
before they are used by
another athlete.
Observer fi le photo
La Grande defensive back Blaine Shaw (3) intercepts a pass intended for Baker tight end
Spencer Smith (32) during a game in 2019 in La Grande. The La Grande Tigers went on
to defeat the Baker Bulldogs 34-0. The Oregon School Activities Association last week
released plans to reawaken high school athletics in counties now in Phase 1 of reopening.