Risks in an early return?
June 22, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas — In places like Texas and Florida, where the “Friday Night Lights” culture of high school football runs deep, strength and conditioning sessions are bringing thousands of athletes to school for workouts, even while those states are seeing record numbers of new cases and hospitalizations since Memorial Day.
Some schools have already been sent scrambling when a player tests positive.
High schools should consider not playing at all, said Kenneth Shropshire, professor and chief executive of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State.