Sports During COVID-19: How It’s Affected Glasgow
October 30, 2020
COVID-19 took a lot from us. One of the things that it took was sports. Sports were thriving in the Glasgow community before COVID-19. During quarantine, a lot of us stopped and thought about school, work, and other things. In the midst of this sports slowly disappeared. It is hard to think about sports when there is a global pandemic. When we started getting settled some people started playing sports again, but with a lot of changes.
Some people are still playing sports, but it isn’t the same. There are special rules that leagues put in to prevent COVID-19. Some examples are wearing masks, social distancing, taking away locker rooms/dugouts access, and more. Other than safety, restrictions like these are also keeping people from playing. A lot of people are still playing through all of these issues because they love to play sports. But these reasons took a lot of people away from sports.
There are a lot of people who left due to COVID-19 and safety restrictions. Around 190 students answered a form that shows just how the sports community was affected.
More than half of the people who played sports before COVID-19 are not playing now. It was surprising that so many people stopped playing sports due to COVID-19.
As you can see, Glasgow’s sports community took a big hit from COVID-19. More than half of the people who were playing sports don’t anymore. Sports are coming back from COVID-19. We can try to slowly get back to normal. Normal means with sports. Sports are a part of Glasgow that we can get back. Let’s get back sports!
Gavin Tilock is a 7th grader at Glasgow Middle School and this is his first year with the Panther Post. Gavin was born in Falls Church, VA. Gavin enjoys playing cello in his free time. Besides playing cello, he also likes to play sports; his favorite sport to play is baseball. He enjoys being a part of the Panther Post and hopes that you enjoy reading it!
