The high school golf season in Kentucky will start as scheduled, but the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Board of Control voted today to continue the current workout guidelines for other fall sports through Sunday, August 2. Mandatory practices are not allowed at this time.
KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett clarified what the extension of the workout guidelines means.
"What they're able to do now, they can continue doing for approximately three more weeks," Tackett said. "Nothing additional, no additional equipment, no additional anything; it's the same."
Athletes will not be allowed to practice more than six hours a week through August 2.
Earlier in the day during a KHSAA work session, Tackett stressed that fall sports will be played.
"We're going to participate in athletics and activities this fall," Tackett said. "We don't know what it's going to look like, but we're going to."
Tackett says the KHSAA plans to push the message that the public can help get sports back.
"If our state wants high school sports, you're gonna have to do the CDC recommendations on masking, on distancing, on hand washing. That's it," Tackett said.
This afternoon in the Board of Control meeting, the commissioner thanked the board for allowing the staff to take measured steps in preparing for fall sports.
"The longer we can keep that foot on the brake and the gas, and gradually ease into the fall, the better chance we have of not having to stop," Tackett said. "That's just odds."
July 28 is the tentative date for the next KHSAA Board of Control meeting.
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