I wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares about rescheduling spring events. I don't have nightmares about scary movies. I have nightmares about rescheduling Spring Athletic Contests. The last two days has been crazy with spring cancellations. We have cancelled 8 High School events the last two days. My biggest problem is trying to get them rescheduled. It seems like it should be so easy to reschedule games, but it's not. I spent extended time on the phone the last two days with my fellow athletic directors to try to find dates to reschedule these 8 events. So far, no luck. I just checked and we have only 4 open dates to re-schedule our baseball games. We can't use Fridays because those are reserved for conference games. We have senior night on one of our open dates and the IHSAA limits the number of games we can play during the week. With all that information and our opponents having the same information, it's not surprising we could not come up with dates that would work. So today I sent out an email to area schools to see if we could add one of them to the schedule to get our teams some more games. So far no response. Softball has the same issues. Both Baseball and softball have some low numbers this year and jv games have also been an issue. Both of those teams are playing on a day-by-day basis. Tonight's track meet and Golf Match also has some issues. Now we have to coordinate the schedules for 3 schools instead of just two. It has been really wild and their is no end in sight!
Even if I get lucky enough to reschedule a game, I have to find new umpires and workers to actually play the game. I think I'm getting a headache!
We will do what we can to get contests for our student-athletes. It's not always easy. But it's worth it!
Go Railroaders!
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