Athletes plead GHSA to not cancel spring sports

Athletes plead GHSA to not cancel spring sports

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Georgia high schools are at least one month away from going back to normal.

April 27 is the circled date on the calendar for reopening schools and resuming high school sports.

However, the threat to cancel athletics all together due covid-19 still lingers.

Ghsa executive director dr. robin hines says quote: "we would do everything that we could do to have some sort of abbreviated season and abbreviated championships."

That would include having games after the school year ends.

He continues to say, "the worst case scenario would be to cancel the spring season.

But ... dr. hines is not prepared to do that now."

Student athletes have taken it upon themselves to make their voices heard.

More than 32 thousand people have signed a change.org petition urging the ghsa to not cancel spring sports.

Ringgold senior brayden broome hopes the ghsa will consider the signatures when making decisions.

Brayden broome: "we hate it for ourselves that we can't be out here and be with each other because we have a really special bond so we just want to be back out here.

I was glad our community in georgia was coming through and thinking about all our spring athletes, not just baseball, but track and field, tennis, all those guys, because it's a terrible thing that's going on throughout america right now so hopefully we'll be able to keep playing."

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