DAVISON (DTV) – (8/14/2020) – Information about Davison Schools’ start time as well as the Michigan High School Sports Association’s (MHSAA) decision to delay the 2020 football season upcoming in this article.
Davison Community Schools start time:
It was announced on the Davison Schools’ Twitter and Facebook that ALL Davison Schools will be starting on the 8th of September instead of August 17th
We have made the very difficult decision to push back the start of our 2020/21 school year until after Labor Day. Our intention is for all students to begin school on Tuesday, September 8, for face-to-face and/or online learning. https://t.co/OhQR7Nd5Ml
— Davison Schools (@DavisonSchools) August 11, 2020
For reasons such as a new executive order by Governor Whitmer and in-school preparations not being complete, Kevin Brown, Superintendent of Davison Schools, has delayed the start of school.
MHSAA’s postponement:
It was recently released via Twitter and MHSAA’s website that Michigan High School Football 2020 season will be moved to the spring of 2021.
🚨 BREAKING: MHSAA Announces Football to Move to Spring Season for 2020-21 >> https://t.co/MvDrBmILpghttps://t.co/mluUmmZWGQ
— MHSAA (@MHSAA) August 14, 2020
This means our Davison-made football state champs will have to wait several months to have a shot at going for back to back rings.
Mark Uyl, MHSAA Executive Director, says, “At the end of the day, we did everything we could to find a path forward for football this fall.” He goes on to say that there are too many unknowns and uncertainties to resume football now. The MHSAA must follow the governor’s rule and must make this decision to stay connected with the Governor’s office, state health department officials, MHSAA’s member schools’ personnel, and the Council.” *credit: MHSAA
What does this mean for other sports?
There are no other decisions made yet on other fall sports, although, because football has constant close contact, the choice was obvious for MHSAA. Uyl states, “No one is willing to take the risk of COVID being passed on because of a high-risk sport. Decisions have to be made on our other sports as well, but none of those carry the same close, consistent, and face-to-face contact as football.” *credit: MHSAA
Therefore, other “moderate to low-risk spread” sports will continue as normal, but there are always modifications, especially during peculiar times like these.
For more information, check out MHSAA’s website article by clicking here.
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