With the announcement this past week from the IHSA of the cancellation of spring sport state tournaments to coincide with Governor Pritzker suspending the remainder of the school year, summer sport activities are suspended as well says Monmouth-Roseville Athletic Director Jeremy Adolphson:
“That would include weight training, speed training, open gyms, leagues. All that stuff that would go on normally in June and July for a lot of the kids. The one thing they did talk about was that if you get to a point where you can do a spring game of some sort, one of your spring sports, if things get relaxed. Then essentially they are okay with that in terms that it would not impact kids’ eligibility. Typically, you cannot play with your school team while you are playing with a club team or a summer team. They are basically saying if you get together and have a baseball game or softball game in the summer, because you can, you want to have something for those seniors; they are not essentially going to hold the rules tight there that would essentially make that illegal. They did leave that part open,” Adolphson says.
With the extension of the stay at home order in Illinois extended through May 30th, any summer activity or possible spring sporting event is looking less likely to happen. The IHSA will continue to communicate and monitor briefings from state officials and provide the schools with updates.
Signing day for Monmouth-Roseville High School seniors pursuing a collegiate sport will be done a little differently this year, says Athletic Director Jeremy Adolphson:
“Just encouraging them to send me pictures, videos, you know, a lot of those letters or the signings they can create at their house with their family and the people they care about being there. Trying to put something together online so we can recognize those kids and get that information out to people. I think it is important to do it, but it is difficult to do. Obviously, you can’t be in person, but I think the cool thing about this is we could see some pretty elaborate set ups and some pretty simple. Just allow them to be as creative as they would like to be and get to experience at least that portion of the signing day virtually,” Adolphson shares.
