Voluntary data submitted by 348 member schools to the Minnesota State High School League reported 73 high school athletes tested positive for COVID-19 over a two-week period ending Sept. 4, while 735 athletes were within close contact of a positive case.

Of the 1,248 programs to report, 16 percent were affected by either a positive case or close contact. Forty teams across all current fall sports had to miss games, while 141 practices were cancelled.

Boys and girls cross country represented the highest number of teams involved in the survey, yet provided the lowest total numbers of reported positive cases and cancellations. As a sport, girls cross country reported just two missed contests, three missed practices and four positive tests.

At least 20 percent of reporting teams in girls swim and dive, girls tennis, girls soccer and boys soccer reported having a COVID-related event, with between 14 and 18 athletes in each sport testing positive for COVID-19 in the past two weeks.

But 68 percent of responding schools reported zero incidents over the two-week span. And of the 113 schools that reported incidents, half of those only had incidents in one specific sport.