Fallout: 25 Arizona high schools have canceled fall sports due to pandemic

Arizona Republic

Twenty-five Arizona Interscholastic Association high schools so far have canceled fall sports in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with another canceling all sports for the the entire 2020-21 school year.

Tohono O’odham is the only school that requested cancellation of sports for the full school year with the AIA's Executive Board, which on Monday during its board meeting granted all cancellation requests without being fined because of the global pandemic.

Of the 25 schools without fall sports, 21 of those are on an Indian reservation with another, Page, having the majority of its student population coming in from the Navajo reservation. That reservation became one of the world's biggest COVID-19 hot spots this summer.

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Here is a list of schools that have canceled fall sports:

Whiteriver Alchesay
Tucson Arizona School for Deaf/Blind
Sells Baboquivari
Chinle
Cibecue
Ganado
Tuba City Greyhills Academy
Keams Canyon Hopi
Many Farms
Kayenta Monument Valley
Buckeye Odyssey Institute
Page
Pinon
Kearny Ray
Red Mesa
Red Valley-Cove
Rock Point
San Carlos
Winterhaven (Calif.) San Pasqual
Shonto Prep
St. Michael
Tuba City
Sanders Valley
Fort Defiance Window Rock
Tohono O’odham (all sports 2020-21).

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