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Iowa high school sports escape most severe restrictions during pandemic

A year ago this week, Iowa High School Athletic Association leaders were sitting in a room inside Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines trying to decide what to do about the boys' state basketball finals. The NCAA had just canceled all winter and spring championships, including the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, and K-12 school districts were postponing events and calling off practices after it became clear COVID-19 was spreading in Iowa. “From that point to where we are now, we were making decisions and recommendations based on limited information,” said Tom Keating, executive director of the association that governs all boys’ high school sports in the state. The association decided to let the championship games continue March 14, 2020, but limited fans to 100 per school. Double standard? Sports have escaped some of Iowa’s most severe restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa was the only state in the country to allow high school baseball and softball last summer. When COVID-19 cases were surging again in November, Gov.

 

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