We now know when high school sports are scheduled to resume.

OK. But will games actually be played? Or will they be delayed again?

Or will there be another cancellation of all high school sports like we had this past spring?

And if games are played, can people attend?

That’s all up to you.

And you. And you, and you and you. And me.

The state’s COVID-19 data in recent weeks has not gone in the direction the decision-makers prefer. If the percentage of positive tests and the number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations and deaths are not reduced significantly enough, perhaps moms and dads and grandparents and students and everyone else won’t be allowed to attend high school games and matches in 2020-21.

Maybe the situation worsens, enough so that games are called off again.

How is that up to us?

According to someone who has some expertise …

“The data is clearly there that masking works,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Masking is not a political issue. It is a public health issue. It really is a personal responsibility for all of us. … If we really embrace masking, if we really embrace the social distancing and hand washing, we could bring this outbreak to its knees.”

Dr. Redfield laid down the challenge for all of us who want high school sports to happen, and want it to happen as close as we can get it to how it used to be when high school sports resume later this year according to the calendars set Monday by the CIF State and Southern Section offices.

If we want our young people to have the best high school sports experience we can give them, it’s time for everyone to team up.

Winning teams have unselfish role players. Role players are athletes who set aside their personal wants for the good of the team. Role players are the best teammates.

Be a role player. Wash your hands.

As important as role players are, a team needs its star players, too. The star player consistently comes through in the clutch.

Be a star player. Use a hand sanitizer.

Some teams don’t achieve their goals because they have selfish players. Selfish players don’t care about the team. Their only concern is about themselves.

Be an unselfish teammate. Wear a mask.

High school athletes sacrifice much to be the best they can be. They deserve the best we can give them.

If we work together like the good teammates we need to be to squash the virus, high school athletes will have a season complete with games that decide league championships, games that on the final day of the regular season decide who goes to the playoffs and the great rivalries that make Orange County athletics so special.

We need the Mater Dei vs. Servite football game, with Servite perhaps ready to give Mater Dei a challenge the rivalry has not seen in a few years. (By the way … if you want to see social-distancing protocols strictly followed, go to that game and watch how Mater Dei and Servite people avoid each other. It’s social distancing at its finest.)

We need the student sections to be filled with the high school kids who come up with the funniest chants and celebrations.

We need to hear Mission Viejo football public address announcer Harvey Ohman’s smooth voice telling us who made that tackle, Servite PA man Tim Brundige welcoming the alums, and El Modena’s Bob Ruddy — “The Voice” – announcing that the night’s attendance at remodeled Fred Kelly Stadium is 62,759 or whatever crazy number he thinks of.

We need to have Le Pom Pom Café open at San Clemente High’s Thalassa Stadium to find out if the tri-tip is as good as it was last year.

We need those bagpipes leading La Habra’s football team and Servite’s football team onto the field.

We need Santa Ana’s marching band making its historic walk from the campus to Santa Ana Stadium on game night.

We need the Orange football team bus going around the plaza after a win.

We need Freeway League boys basketball, where the gyms are packed and the players pass, catch and shoot the ball with the soundest fundamentals in the county.

We need Corona del Mar vs. Newport Harbor volleyball and water polo so that in a few years we can watch the Olympics and say, “I saw that kid play in person.”

The high school sports year doesn’t start for several months. What you and I do between now and then will determine if we will have a high school sports year, and how long it will last.

We’ve been told how to be the teammates that our high school athletes need us to be.

Let’s get out there and do it.