BY JESSICA PARKS
Let the games begin!
A cadre of Brooklyn politicos
and Catholic high school
sports leaders are demanding
the mayor allow a return of
high school sports in the fi ve
boroughs as soon as possible.
“We write today to request
prompt, clear plans from
health and education offi cials
on the following: higher-risk
sports, spring season youth
sports league park permits,
and re-opening of high schools
and therefore PSAL sports,”
wrote State Sen. Andrew Gounardes,
City Councilmember
Justin Brannan, Assemblymember
Jaime Williams,
and State Sen. Roxanne Persaud
in a letter. “We are concerned
about the effect that
not having these programs
has had on youth health and
mental health during the
COVID-19 pandemic.”
Athletic fi elds at New York
City’s schoolyards have been
vacant for nearly a year as
public high schools have been
mostly closed since the start
of the pandemic, and the city
Parks Department will only
issue spring and summer permits
COURIER L 12 IFE, MARCH 5-11, 2021
for low- to moderate-risk
sports leagues on their fi eld —
despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo
allowing higher-risk sports to
participate in socially-distant
practices since late September.
The governor announced
in late January that higherrisk
sports could resume playing
games intra-regionally on
Feb. 1, provided they have approval
from their local health
departments.
“Our winter sports — basketball,
ice hockey and wrestling
— were not played, and
boy’s volleyball and lacrosse
is not being played for spring
sports,” said Dominick Vulpis,
executive director of the
Catholic High Schools Athletic
Association in Brooklyn
and Queens.
As the coronavirus pandemic
has forced kids indoors,
the four politicians argue in a
Feb. 11 letter penned to Mayor
Bill de Blasio and outgoing
Schools Chancellor Richard
Carranza that opening up high
school and higher-risk sports
would bring much-needed
normalcy into children’s lives
while they await vaccines.
“We know that COVID-19
prevention is paramount
and can be logistically diffi
cult, but we have the scientifi
c knowledge to offer this
guidance and we owe it to our
youth to do so as they continue
to wait months for vaccine distribution
to unfold,” they said.
Vulpis — who on Feb. 25
joined Catholic school administrators
to announce their
plans to push the city to resume
high-risk sports this
school year — further recommends
Pols and admins are hoping for a return of PSAL sports. Brooklyn Bonnies
the reopening of highrisk
and high school sports
leagues, suggesting that players
will go elsewhere, like in
a municipality where their
sport is allowed or privately
in someone’s backyard, without
any of the guidelines the
state might recommend.
“This forces studentathletes
to play in outside
leagues,” he said. “The city is
putting them in the hands of
people who don’t have to be
certifi ed...like in somebody’s
backyard or house.”
In their letter, the quartet
of politicians requests
the city promptly issue plans
for higher-risk youth sports,
spring season youth sports
leagues permits, high school
sports and therefore, Public
Schools Athletic Leagues
sports.
They advise the city to look
to other municipalities across
the state for intel on safely reopening
higher-risk sports
which have been prohibited
to play games in the city since
the start of the pandemic, and
pointed to Suffolk County’s
swift action following the governor’s
January announcement.
Time to play ball?
Southern Brooklyn pols, Catholic sports
leaders call for return of youth sports
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