COVID-19 is continuing to affect how high school sports will look this fall. At PCM, adjustments to cross country meets are being considered. Activities Director Greg Bonnett believes that meet organizers should try to come up with a system to disperse the runners from the finish line, rather than allowing them to all gather in one area.

“When they all finish, those kids are exhausted. They’re breathing hard, they’re spitting, some of them are even worse than that, they’re throwing up and things like that. So I think the main thing with cross country is to get them out of that finish area right away. When you have paths out there, keep it so there’s at least six feet where they can go through and there’s no tight [areas] where they’re going to be shoulder to shoulder and things like that. Have a wide start so they don’t all have to be in one packed area and go. You can put them on a hill and have them spaced out and have them take off down the hill. There’s going to be things like that where you just have to use common sense as a person setting up that meet.”

PCM’s first cross country meet is September 1st at Williamsburg. They’ll host a home meet on September 22nd.