It’s going to be a staggered start to the 2020 fall sports season for Rhode Island Interscholastic League member schools.
The safety precautions were emailed to the athletic directors Sunday and posted to the league’s web site Monday.
Girls tennis has the green light to compete this fall, and players at The Prout School will be taking their serves and volleys on revamped courts.
Fundraising began in earnest in 2019 and has surpassed $1 million, with about $700,000 more to go, and the school is hoping a final push can lead to a green light sooner rather than later.
The fall high school sports picture came into focus on Friday as Gov. Gina Raimondo and the Rhode Island Interscholastic League set forth their plans for a season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Cobain was officially hired July 28 and took over earlier this month.
At the earliest, the fate of football, boys and girls soccer, field hockey and volleyball (girls and unified) won’t be known until after Aug. 31.
South Kingstown is seeing a lot of first-place Gershkoff, with two meetings in the last two weeks of the regular season and a third that was scheduled for Wednesday in the opening round of the R.I. Elite League playoffs.
Tentative plans have been mapped out for cross country, one of the few Rhode Island Interscholastic League fall sports that would be able to take place under Phase 3 guidelines of the state’s reopening plan.
The Rhode Island Interscholastic League has a blueprint of possibilities and a start date for sports in the 2020-21 academic year, but no final decisions have been made about what the upcoming fall season will look like.
Training for cross country isn’t just about running anymore, and South County’s high school runners are learning that lesson this summer.
Tom Marcello – Ponaganset High athletic director and Bishop Hendricken graduate – is moving to the statewide level as the RIIL’s new assistant executive director.
North Kingstown grad Haley Sawyer will join the URI volleyball team as a preferred walk-on.
Grace Gibbons left St. Mark’s School with the top athletic award in her class and a ticket to an unexpected future.
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