High school spring sports begin on Thursday this week in Nebraska. Not that you would know it based on local media coverage.
My interest in spring sports is as a former track athlete (400m and 800m) and current soccer referee. Soccer is going to have a rough go in March this year. There's no way the fields are ready to be played on, and teams that don't have an artificial surface to practice on probably haven't had much quality outdoor preparation time.
A big question among referees is what LPS will do about it. Ideally I would like to see LPS squeeze as many varsity games as possible onto the artificial turf fields at Seacrest and Beechner. That would require some adjustments, yes, but far fewer adjustments than postponing matches until the grass surfaces are ready. It'll be downright ugly if they essentially try to squeeze an entire season into April. So far LPS doesn't seem to have made any moves to do such a thing. That's consistent with their past behavior, which is unfortunate.
Anyway, are any of you big spring sports fans? What's your sport and which is your team?
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