{"id":46425,"date":"2020-07-08T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/wiaa-delays-start-dates-for-fall-sports\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:33:30","slug":"wiaa-delays-start-dates-for-fall-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/wiaa-delays-start-dates-for-fall-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"WIAA delays start dates for fall sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WIAA Executive Board took action on Tuesday to delay the start date for fall sports.<\/p>\n<p>Football practices are set to begin Saturday, Sept. 5, and all other sports are planned for Monday, Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The adjusted start dates for fall sports practices allow for contests to begin as early as Sept. 18, the WIAA said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The action was taken in an attempt to relieve pressure on member schools as they prepare for the opening of schools to in-person and\/or online learning,&rdquo; the WIAA said.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Board will review other options July 21 for fall sports should further delays become necessary, with an announcement to be made July 22.<\/p>\n<p>Options are recommendations are created by a planning committee made up of Executive Board members, WIAA staff, and representatives from WIAA member schools.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, schools are advised to avoid any rescheduling of games until a decision is made about how the delayed start impacts the fall season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football practices to begin Sept. 5, all other sports planned for Sept. 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":46426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-46425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46425"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}