This is really good news for lacrosse. Word is an OSAA response to this release is coming soon.

The highlights are:

1. Highlighting the revised guidance is the elimination of the tiered “Potential Infection Risk by Sport” that placed sports in high-, medium- and low-risk categories.
2. Prevailing community infection rates appear to be the strongest predictor for high school athletes being infected
3. Proven cases of direct COVID-19 transmission during athletics remain relatively rare.
4. We have increasingly recognized that transmission depends upon multiple factors that cannot be easily accounted for by simply dividing sports into three distinct categories of risk.
5. The majority of sports-related spread of COVID-19 appears to occur from social contact, not during sports participation.

The committee noted that preventing spread of the virus from social contact remains paramount to the continuation of sports during the pandemic. As a result, social distancing, use of masks, staying home when ill and proper hygiene must continue to be emphasized in the locker room, on the field and court, while traveling and interacting in the community.

Read the whole article here:
https://www.nfhs.org/articles/nfhs-revises-guidance-on-covid-19-transmission-during-high-school-sports/