{"id":90056,"date":"2020-03-17T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chsaa-extends-spring-sports-suspension-until-at-least-april-18\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:24:49","slug":"chsaa-extends-spring-sports-suspension-until-at-least-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chsaa-extends-spring-sports-suspension-until-at-least-april-18\/","title":{"rendered":"CHSAA extends spring sports suspension until at least April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n

The Colorado High School Activities Association extended its spring sports and activities postponement until at least April 18, the organization announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The decision was made following the most recent recommendation from state and federal health officials in order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. Spring sports were previously suspended through April 8 after the decision was made last Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 announcement Monday afternoon, we are announcing that the Association will follow the guidelines that went into effect at 8 a.m. Tuesday and will remain in effect for 30 days,\u201d CHSAA Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green said in a news release<\/a>. \u201cThis media and school advisory is to keep the membership apprised of the latest decisions from the CHSAA office.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to sports, all music events and the CHSAA Hall of Fame ceremony set for April 14 have been canceled, per the release.<\/p>\n

Other updates from the statement included:<\/p>\n

The CHSAA Legislative Council scheduled for April 15 has been postponed until public gathering restrictions are lifted. <\/em>The State Speech Tournament and Student Leadership\u2019s Advisor U committee also remain postponed until the restrictions are lifted. <\/em>The CHSAA office will remain closed until March 30 and all staff members will work remotely.<\/em>For Ignacio High School athletic director Leo Garand, knowing multi-sport and senior athletes will be out of action for at least another month is tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of me keeps holding out hope,\u201d Garand said. \u201cThose senior athletes and multi-sport athletes, it\u2019s tough knowing that the season is on hold. We\u2019ve got a lot of seniors where their final season is coming closer and closer to an end, and they haven\u2019t played at all. We\u2019re holding out hope because all we want to see is these kids compete again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garand said that if sports resume play next month, track and field teams would go to the meet set on the teams\u2019 schedule for the first weekend of play. Baseball will try to re-schedule conference and Class 2A district games as doubleheaders. He also said the girls soccer team would also play an abbreviated season. He said athletes have been working out on their own in the meantime to ensure they are ready for the season if it resumes next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week at the spring sports meeting, coaches gave exercises, drills and things that the athletes can do to stay ready,\u201d Garand said. \u201cI know the girls soccer team has been working out and doing drills off campus, and I\u2019ve seen track athletes out running the roads when I leave work. It\u2019s tough, but I\u2019m extremely proud of our kids for handling a tough situation. We\u2019d love to give those kids one last chance to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n

State basketball update<\/div>\n

The organization announced it will recognize participants from the state basketball tournament with a memento in the coming weeks. The tournament was canceled last Thursday after Great 8 games were completed earlier that night. The Ignacio High School boys and girls basketball teams played its respective Great 8 games in Loveland, only for the remainder of the tournament to be called off shortly after the final buzzer sounded. Their second games in the tournament were canceled.<\/p>\n

CHSAA concluded the statement by saying it will post updates on CHSAANow.com as further local, state and national decisions continue to be made.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. For more information, follow www.durangoherald.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

bploen@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Athletes\u2019 seasons put on hold for another month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1871,685,592,28,846,427],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-90056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bayfield-high-school","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-durango-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-ignacio-high-school","tag-prep-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90061,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90056\/revisions\/90061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90056"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=90056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}