NYSPHSAA executive director Dr. Robert Zayas determined to get seasons played when schools reopen
From Newsday:
The persistence of the coronavirus pandemic has left too many uncertainties to determine if, when and how high school sports should return if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo decides to re-open public schools. However, the NYSPHSAA is determined that high school athletes in every sport get a chance to compete whenever athletics is allowed to return.
“I’ve been in athletic administration for almost 20 years and the decision that had to be made three months ago to cancel the spring season was, by far, the most difficult decision that I had to be a part of as an executive director or an athletic administrator,” NYPHSAA executive director Dr. Robert Zayas said in a Zoom news conference Tuesday following a meeting of the association’s COVID-19 task force.
“It is my intention that no student have to be told what the spring sport athletes were told at the beginning of March. So it’s my commitment to the association and to all student athletes and their parents that we are doing everything we can, at this point in time, to ensure that every student gets the season that they want in the upcoming school year.