Adjusting summer practices due to Covid-19

The Mayo Spartans have had to practice outdoors all week.

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Sports are feeling the brunt as well.

"we got a later start date than we though we normally would have, so we missed out on a few opportunities to work with the kids."

The mayo spartans girls basketball team usually begins practice the first week of june.

The team would practice at their home gym, but now they've found a different place to call home.

For the past week, the mayo spartans girls basketball team has settled for a new court here at m?

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"making sure that we keep our kids separated from each other as much as we can.

Designated coaches to work with those pods so that the coaches aren't transmitting back and forth."

With a large team, carpenter had no choice but to take practices outside.

Players are grouped into pods limited to 15 people, hand sanitizer is readily available ?

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Carpenter says the new rules have been a challenge.

"it's definitely not easy.

As a coach you're constantly in adapt mode anyways and it's been a little of a unique adaptation time for us."

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When you're a young teenager and you thrive with that social communication and that social interaction, and you haven't had it for so long, it's been really good for them to have that part of it."

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