Petition to Restore the NCHSAA Indoor Track and Field Season for 2020-21

In response to the COVID pandemic, the NCHSAA revealed their plan for high school sports in 2020-21 on August 12. This plan preserved (and postponed) over a dozen high school sports, for which we are certainly grateful.  However, only a single sport was eliminated: Indoor (Winter) Track and Field.  We are grateful for the NCHSAA coming up with an altered plan, communicating that plan clearly to the public, and preserving all other sports.  However, we feel that eliminating indoor track and field is simply unfair to these athletes.  Track and field has one of the highest participation rates in the state and in the country.  Many student-athletes will miss out on countless mental and physical benefits, as well as life lessons, and possibly scholarship aid, because of this decision to remove indoor track and field from the new athletics plan.  We are humbly requesting that the NCHSAA reconsider their decision to eliminate indoor track and field.  

Proposal/Petition Information, which includes answers to all these questions:

-Why do our indoor track and field student-athletes deserve a season?

-How can we have a safer indoor season?

-What misinterpretations were used to account for canceling indoor track and field?

-When could we have an indoor track and field season on the revised schedule?

or, copy/paste link into browser (will redirect to Google Docs): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oz5AN8w8k3ao3vsmxxvgGs-qTQSihAVzOnswt3o6xwA/edit?usp=sharing 

The goal of this petition is to acquire as many signatures as possible to show the NCHSAA how important indoor track and field is to our student-athletes, and to encourage the NCHSAA to add the indoor track and field season into their revised athletics plan for 2020-21.  If you are an indoor track and field student-athlete, parent, relative, guardian, coach, or supporter of athletics in general, then please sign this petition.  Let's show support for all of our athletes, including indoor track and field student-athletes! We owe it to our student-athletes to have an indoor track and field season.  There is too much is hanging in the balance to exclude these hard working kids from working towards their goals and dreams. 

#WeWantToPlayToo