The Athletic Department and football program have canceled the remaining sessions scheduled for July 16 and 17. The earliest the football team will have any type of training will be Monday, Baker said.
“We of course are saddened by the fact that we have this situation; but we feel confident that steps we have taken and the protocol we are enforcing will provide the safest possible environment moving forward,” Baker said in the media release. “We urge you as our community to be doing everything you can to lessen the spread of this pandemic.”
The students and coaches who had been in contact with the coach will have more stringent requirements to return. They will either have to stay home until July 29 and be asymptomatic, or they have to provide a negative coronavirus test.
Baker said each coach and student athlete has had to complete a daily check-in process since training started; which includes taking their temperature, completing a self symptom questionnaire and wearing a mask other than during an activity.
Because of that check-in process, the athletic department was able to follow the tracing protocol and determine a list of students and coaches that now will be required to follow the ‘Direct contact with coronavirus’ process, Baker said. All of these people and their families have been notified directly.
Those who had direct contact must quarantine. Those who have been within six feet of a confirmed coronavirus case for 15 minutes or more over the past 10 days, must stay home from school for 14 days from the time they were last exposed to the infected person or until they receive a negative coronavirus test result. This protocol includes students seated in classes immediately around an infected student or staff member as well as school bus, cafeteria or sports or club connections.
This would likely not include hallway exposure.
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