States wrestle with playing high school football amid COVID High schools are facing the same tough choices colleges are about football seasonTHRALL, Texas -- As heat waves rose from the crackling grass next to a cotton field that stretched far into the distance, Rick Porter watched his young football players struggle through a preseason practice. We could have our game canceled next week.”Florida gave its high schools the OK Friday to begin later this month. Recent decisions by the Big Ten and the Pac-12 to call off fall sports raise a new dilemma for high schools. If two college conferences, with some of the nation's most prestigious universities and medical expertise, were willing to abandon sports then should high schools be playing? “At the high school level, the onus falls on the athlete’s family to be sure the kids are taken care of,” Briskin said.

Source: ABC News August 16, 2020 15:35 UTC