By Sophia Fraser Athletics are a vital component of schools of all ages all around the world. They provide athletes with a safe space to learn technique, work as a team, and destress from the rest of life. Games provide students excitement and social opportunities. Anticipating a season, many athletes found creative ways to train at home and stay ready for their sport. Student athletes Ty Abernathy and Sami Emry spoke with the Crier about their opinions on this. Abernathy had a very optimistic view about online classes, pointing out that “it has allowed a lot more time to train and really prepare for the sport...the extra time to get ready for the season has really helped me." He added that with the in person season starting back up, “[he] feels super good finally being able to reconnect with some of [his] teammates and prepare for another season with them." Emry commented that because of COVID “we were not able to have [sports] for a year and it really takes a toll on your mental health when you realize that you are missing out on what is supposed to be one of the best years of your life." Even so, she offered a creative way of preparing as well, letting us know that “cheer has a meeting twice a week over Zoom with [the] team to get to know each other and to practice to the best of [their] ability." Although the possibility of a season was looking pretty slim when school started up, our state and school have worked hard to improvise some resemblance. But even now that they have started, the 2020-2021 sports seasons look drastically different this year as social distancing and COVID regulations are taken into effect. Fall sports started up mid February, and soccer and cross country have their first games/races this week. The seasons are a lot shorter than usual at 6 weeks, and practice times are limited in attempts to share the space and keep people separated. Games and meets are not allowed to have spectators, and are not very publicized for this reason. But there is still a way to support your athletes and friends! Some of the games will be broadcasted, although the details of this feature are still largely up in the air. Fall sport contests started March 1st, winter sports will begin April 12th, and spring sports will follow on May 17th. If you are interested in joining a high school sport still, it’s not too late to contact your respective coach. You can find this information on the CV website under athletics. Link to soccer broadcasts: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/schools/crescent-valley-high-school-corvallis-or Image sources: https://www.pexels.com/photo/kigoa-football-on-green-grass-during-daytime-209956/, and Lukas Hartmann from Pexels If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. If you want to contact us for any reason, you can email
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