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Salpointe’s Connor Witthoft, left, and Coben Bourguet team up in last year’s win over Phoenix Pinnacle. The AIA could announce a revised football schedule as soon as this week.
PHOENIX — The Arizona Interscholastic Association has heard from the schools. Now it’s time to take action on a more concrete plan for fall sports amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
After 251 of its 274-member schools responded to an AIA survey last week, executive director David Hines said an announcement could come as soon as Wednesday on what the fall high school sports seasons will look like.
“I think as long as the (Executive) Board gets all of the information, I think we can have our next plan in place to let people know on Wednesday or Thursday,” Hines said.
Aug. 17 was set as a target date last month by the AIA for football to begin official practices, because that was the date Gov. Doug Ducey gave to reopen schools for the 2020-21 academic year.
But some school districts have said will stay with online learning into October, even if their schools are able to have on-campus, organized workouts.
In the feedback received by the schools in the survey, Hines said, “We got surprisingly a high percentage of schools that do want to participate in fall sports.”
“Again, it depends on where they’re at, what part of the state, as far as return to schools,” Hines said.
Hines planned to meet with the crisis management committee Tuesday and a study session for the Executive Board is scheduled for Wednesday.
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