The Illinois High School Association Board of Directors met for a special board meeting Wednesday, where the board provided the latest information on the IHSA’s winter sports season.
The Board voted to move the sport of wrestling from the winter season to the summer season, which will run April 19th through June 26th 2021.
The Board also approved the IHSA’s winter sports guidance for all low risk sports, which include Boys Swimming and Diving, Cheerleading, Dance, Boys and Girls Bowling and Girls Gymnastics. These sports will be conducted from November 16th of this year, to February 13th, 2021.
Additionally, the Board too action to follow the guidance of the IHSA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee and will allow Boys and Girls Basketball to begin practices, per IHSA Return to Activities 2.0 on November 16th. Games can begin November 30th within an Illinois COVID Region, or within a conference. As part of the mitigation plan, masks will be worn by all players, coaches and officials during play. Boys and Girls Basketball teams will follow team limitations allowing a maximum of 31 games. It will become a local school decision to determine if a school will allow their basketball teams to participate, following the guidelines developed by the SMAC.
The Board also released the following statement regarding the basketball action, which you can find HERE. The high school basketball season was potentially put on hold Tuesday, when Governor Pritzker announced that the IDPH had changed basketball’s risk level from Medium Risk, to High Risk.
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