Santa Clara County Walks Back Prep Sports Ruling: Report

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — Two days after announcing measures that would have effectively ended the high school sports season for high school athletes, Santa Clara County officials have walked back the ruling, The Mercury News reports.

County officials at a school superintendent meeting Tuesday announced new restrictions that made the prospect of salvaging a spring season improbable, The Mercury News reported.

The restrictions prohibited teams, described by county officials as "stable groups," from participating in any activity resembling competitive athletics according to the report.

The "stable groups" were to be prohibited from being in the same room indoors and required to be at the minimum 25 feet apart in outdoor settings, the report said.

Athletes will also would have had to be six feet apart from each other within "stable groups" in practices and wouldn’t have been allowed to cross county lines to avoid Santa Clara County's tough restrictions according to the report.

County officials on Thursday reversed the more onerous measures, bringing South Bay prep athletics under the same purple-tier rules the rest of the state is under, the report said.

Practices are expected to start Monday and competitive sports soon afterwards according to the report.

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