Knoxville recently completed one of the most different high school athletic and activity years ever. The fall started with several COVID-related mitigations that required spectators to wear a mask and limited attendance. But as Activities Director Ryan Paulsen tells KNIA/KRLS Sports, he was pleased with how the entire community, not just the high school students and staff bought in and did what they needed to be safe.

Paulsen:
“That was one of the things I took from last fall was the people did what they needed to do to get back to a sense of normalcy, and get back to a feeling of what we thought was normal by the end of the school year.”

Paulsen says with the buy-in, they were able to gradually ease crowd restrictions and mitigations to the point they were nearly back to normal when summer sports took place.