COVID Can’t Change the Game

Kelly Stevenson- Girls Varsity Basketball Head Coach “Sports at Bolles are running the best that they can at this time. The practices are running pretty smooth. The coaches have protocols (checking temperatures along with screening questions) that they need to follow before each practice/games. As far as the games go, each school has their own protocols for game day. We know students at Bolles...

At the beginning of the 2020 new year, the guys on the crew team practiced in boats of eight, four, two, etc. Now they are only allowed to practice on the water in singles. Crew is not normally defined as a singular player sport but as a team sport. Each person in the boat has their specific job for getting the boat towards the finish line the fastest. Now, the Bolles Boys Crew team must work on...

As a long-standing tradition at the end of a basketball game, the players on each team line up facing each other and walk by high fiving. At the beginning of December, for one of the practice games in Orlando, the boy’s basketball team was not allowed to high five each other. The Bolles boys basketball team has been practicing since the start of school however they only practice once or twice...

Fall sports such as volleyball have condensed their season causing them to play up to four games a week.The season now lasts two and a half months instead of close to three. There’s also been smaller changes made to volleyball such as prohibiting high fives. Disappointed Mila Kavalieros (‘21) said in response to this new regulation.“High fives are normally a way to express excitement and team spir...