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COVID-19 SPORTS PRACTICE GUIDANCE FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS <br />Promote a culture of honesty and health <br />✓ Create protocols to maintain health checks and screening of participants and staff/volunteers. <br />Any staff, volunteers, or participants who are sick must stay home. <br />Have policies in place outlining the process for those who become sick while participating in a <br />sport. <br />Be aware that people can get a positive COVID-19 test even if they do not have symptoms. <br />° Recommend routine testing of athletes, coaches, and other participants, especially 72 hours prior to <br />a game. <br />Requirements for holding practices <br />Follow the "Requirements for holding athletic events" in addition to the following: <br />Spectator requirements <br />If necessary for spectators to be at practices, ensure that spectators maintain at least 6 feet of social <br />distancing between households and that spectators are complying with venue/facility guidance — <br />including applicable capacity limits. <br />Practice requirements <br />Participants must maintain 6 feet of social distancing when not actively playing (team meetings, side <br />lines, waiting for a turn). <br />Keep practices small in size. For youth and adult organized sport practices or training (non -game or <br />competition activities), create pods. Pod sizes cannot exceed 25 people indoors or 50 people <br />outdoors per pod. <br />A "pod" is a group of people that only practice or play with members of their own pod, which <br />limits the potential for transmission in the event of an exposure or outbreak. Teams and <br />organizations are responsible for ensuring that members of different pods do not practice <br />together, interact, or otherwise come into close contact while organized sports are occurring. <br />Pods must either practice in physically separate rooms, facilities, or areas, or steps must be <br />taken to ensure that pods are kept separated by a distance of no less than 12 feet at all times. <br />Teams must also avoid reassigning athletes to different pods to the maximum extent possible. <br />The smaller the pod size, the more the team can minimize broader transmission of COVID-19 <br />among teammates. <br />Additional practice recommendations <br />✓ Spectators at practices are strongly discouraged. If spectators must attend practices, consider <br />limiting to one per participant. <br />✓ Host practices outdoors if possible. <br />8of18 <br />