Athletics
Athletics Reopening
Please view the document below or visit the Athletics Website in order to learn more about the Athletics Reopening on Monday, August 24, 2020!
THE BEARS ARE BACK!
Starting on Monday, August 24, 2020, teams will be allowed to resume practices in a limited capacity. There will be numerous parameters in place to safeguard our student-athletes.
What does the new norm look like? Below are the most important points:
Summer practice protocols/parameters will still be in place at this time.
Maintain social distancing (6-feet separation) at all times
Masks upon entry/exit/non-high-intensity cardio activity
No more than 50 people at one time
No contact
No shared equipment
No indoor facilities (weight room, team rooms, locker rooms)
Every student must submit a signed DUSD Notification and a signed DUSD Waiver in order to practice. If a student-athlete has already submitted one during the summer, he/she does not need to submit a new one. We need hard copies of these forms because we need to collect wet signatures.
Every athlete will need to go through the pre-screening process (temperature checks, questionnaire, and record-keeping) before every workout. Coaches will carve out 15-30 minutes before practices begin to serve as pre-screening time.
Athletes must arrive in their practice attire. Athletes must return home to shower and wash their workout clothes immediately following their practices.
The focus will be on conditioning and individual skills.
**Of special importance: every athlete needs to be cleared through athleticclearance.com before returning to practices. We will have to turn away anyone who has not created their account or uploaded their physical.
Practices will be scheduled outside of the distance learning day. Morning workouts will end by 8:00AM, and athletes need to be picked up promptly at 8:00AM. Afternoon workouts will not begin until 3:30PM.
Please continue to visit the Athletics Website for practice schedule announcements. The schedule will be released on the website and on social media by the end of this week (August 21, 2020).
It's going to look different and restrictive, but we cannot wait to see our Bears back on campus! Until then, stay safe and work hard through your distance learning platforms!
Message from our Athletic Director Samantha Miyahara
Welcome back to our student-athletes and their families! To all new and incoming student-athletes, welcome to our Bear Family! We have over 1200 student-athletes and 24 Varsity sports in our Athletic Department. We are hopeful that this pandemic does not deter anyone from pursuing their athletic interests, and we would love to see those numbers continue to grow! If you are interested in getting involved in a sport, conventional tryouts are not taking place right now. Please email coaches directly to express interest in getting involved.
As of right now, practices cannot resume due to county restrictions. Once they do, things will look a little more restrictive. The primary focus will be on individual drills and conditioning. Numerous parameters will be in place to safeguard our student-athletes and our coaches. We will be social distancing; there will be no contact and no shared equipment; we will be conducting a pre-screening process before every workout. All practices will take place before or after the distance learning day. Although things will look different, we are very excited to eventually see you again and welcome you back onto campus. I am confident that our coaches will work diligently to ensure that you are ready to compete when the time comes.
The good news is that we are very hopeful that our sports will all have seasons. CIF Southern Section worked meticulously to create a revamped 2020-2021 CIF calendar that preserves the sanctity of every season of sport so that teams can play full pre-seasons, regular seasons, and post-seasons. Our sincere hope is that we will get to see our athletes return to the field, court, pool, or track and don Bears proudly across their chests for another season.
Until then, please make sure that you are taking care of your athletic clearance process. In order to do that, all athletes will need a pre-participation physical to be done dated on or after June 2, 2020 in order to be valid for the 2020-2021. Once the physical is complete, please create an account on athleticclearance.com and upload the physical to your account.
Please stay up-to-date on athletics information by visiting our Athletics website (warrenathletics.org) and following our athletics programs on social media (Twitter @warrenathletics and IG @warrenathletes). If you have any questions, please email me directly at smiyahara@dusd.net.
