2009-10 Winter High School Sports Season Comes to an Untimely End!

As I sit here at my computer, we are going through our second Blizzard in a week here in the Washington D.C. Metro area. If you live out of the area, I apologize in advance if it seems like those of us who are living through this series of snow storms seem obsessed. We don't usually get  a lot of snow in our area and certainly this many serious storms so close together is unprecedented!

We all know the obvious cancellations; our children are home from school for the indefinite future, the Federal Government is closed for the third day in a row and the powers that be are rescheduling both professional and college sports events.

Today, to add insult to injury, the Washington Post is reporting that the local public high school winter sports regular season is over. The teams will be going directly in to the tournaments. The article, 'Snowstorms force Northern Region to cancel basketball regular season' detail the current plans for finishing the Basketball, Wrestling, Gymnastics, Swimming and Indoor Track Seasons.  It is a tough blow for the student athletes, especially the Seniors, who will not have a chance to play all of their regular season games.

My daughter is a spring athlete. Tryouts begin the week of February 22. Since many of the Winter athletes also play Spring sports--and facilities will be in great demand--there is really no alternative but to find the most fair way to wind up this winter season.

I appreciate what a difficult decision this has been for the local Athletic Directors, but I am sure that most of us agree that they really have very little choice. With such severe weather, there is really very little option but to make the hard decisions and move on.

My sympathy goes out to all of the Senior athletes for the loss of the remainder of their senior season and I wish them all great success as they move in to the post-season tournaments!