Spring football controversy

The governing body of California high school athletics allowed districts to decide when athletics can resume.

While some were given the green to return now, rival schools in different counties, are getting frustrated still on the sidelines.

To a hospital.

New tonight, the coronavirus put high school sports on the sidelines and unsure when its return will come... some high schools found a way back just in time for spring football -- while others unable to return... sports reporter brandon benitez joins us with concerns growing among football coaches... that's right alan, the california interscholastic federation is allowing individual school districts make the call on resuming certain athletics... high schools like gridley and wheatland started spring football with more on the way... while opponents in their same division who haven't been given the green light -- like west valley high school -- are growing in frustration... i do not want someone to come in and stop gridley, wheatland, and sutter from lifting weights.

I just want to join them... west valley head coach greg grandell is concerned we need to you know get our guys prepared physically for a contact sport... our state constitution requires every athlete to participate in ten days of practice prior to participating in a game but that is for health and saftey reasons.

But grandell urges decision makers to re- think the timeline if since most schools can't start at the same time... it is pure stupidity if we think with no time lifting weights that we're going to start a season in august and not have a ton of injuries if we don't let these kids get ready.

We've had a plan for a mointh ready to go when they'll let us go and it's but not even northern section commissioner elizabeth kyle can make it happen on her own... but in the end it's the prinicpals and superintendent of that school district that decides when students are returning to school and when students are returning to sports we're hoping to get going here, i'd love to get started here but i've been kind of asked by my administration to settle down and wait and that's really hard for me to do grandell noted three things over to me over the phone... lower coronavirus cases throughout the region, low death rate in teens, and the re- opening of close contact businesses in the redding area... all are reasons why he believes the eagles -- and schools under similar circumstances -- should get to take action... live in studio brandon benitez, alan back to you... northern section commissioner elizabeth kyle says sports like tennis and golf may have a chance to fully return on an earlier timeline... the