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Michigan High School Athletic Association moves football to spring due to COVID-19

Posted at 4:13 PM, Aug 14, 2020
and last updated 2020-08-14 23:46:09-04

The Michigan High School Athletic Association has announced that the fall football season will move to spring, due to the sport's higher risk for spreading COVID-19.

The MHSAA says the rest of the fall sports will proceed as scheduled.

“At the end of the day, we did everything we could to find a path forward for football this fall,” MHSAA Executive Director Mark Uyl said in a news release. “But while continuing to connect with the Governor’s office, state health department officials, our member schools’ personnel and the Council, there is just too much uncertainty and too many unknowns to play football this fall. No one is willing to take the risk of COVID being passed on because of a high-risk sport. Decisions have to be made on our other sports as well, but none of those carry the same close, consistent, and face-to-face contact as football.”

Details for the spring football season including a specific schedule and format will be announced over the next few months. The MHSAA will be working to limit overlap of spring football and the traditional Spring sport seasons.

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