Top PA Runner not allowed to run because mandatory quarantine

What happened to common sense? This is just plain stupid. Test her, If she tests negative now and again before the meets then she should be good to run. This knee jerk overreaction needs to stop. People need to stop allowing this garbage to continue.

I am currently on 14 day quarantine and will miss my state qualifier, and the state meet. So will my entire team. This has happened to a couple other runners in my state as well.

coleiolio wrote:

I am currently on 14 day quarantine and will miss my state qualifier, and the state meet. So will my entire team. This has happened to a couple other runners in my state as well.

Wow, that really sucks for everyone dealing with this. I've seen your posts before and we're right on the same level time wise, so that really hits home. One of the top girls in our state became a Covid contact and has to miss her regional, and by, virtue state meet. I've got one more week till my state meet, praying that nothing happens on my team.

*and by virtue,

I am hoping you are able to stay safe and away from anyone positive. It is hard to control what happens, which is part why this sucks so bad.

coleiolio wrote:

I am currently on 14 day quarantine and will miss my state qualifier, and the state meet. So will my entire team. This has happened to a couple other runners in my state as well.

If you aren’t actually positive then this is ridiculous. I feel really bad for all you runners who are being forced to miss qualifiers and states and are perfectly healthy. The adult decision makers are really letting you all down.

Old and Slow wrote:

What happened to common sense? This is just plain stupid. Test her, If she tests negative now and again before the meets then she should be good to run. This knee jerk overreaction needs to stop. People need to stop allowing this garbage to continue.

You would need to get the test results back in time.

Old and Slow wrote:

coleiolio wrote:

I am currently on 14 day quarantine and will miss my state qualifier, and the state meet. So will my entire team. This has happened to a couple other runners in my state as well.

If you aren’t actually positive then this is ridiculous. I feel really bad for all you runners who are being forced to miss qualifiers and states and are perfectly healthy. The adult decision makers are really letting you all down.

It is ridiculous. I basically put myself in quarantine last week and this week before state not because I'm afraid of the virus, but because if anyone I've been around gets it, I become a contact regardless of a negative test or how I feel. Then it would be curtains for my season. Crazy times

This is ridiculous. The PIAA state meet is a joke at this point, they're sending the top teams from each district so you have no-name teams making it from weak districts, while loaded districts only send the top team. As I type this, the team ranked 2nd in the state for AA won't be competing, and the 3rd team in the state for AAA won't be either, as well as many other good teams. And then they remove great talents like Mia without any . They reduced the meet field to stay "safe", but are allowing 4 spectators per athlete competing. You'd think they would allow more athletes to run, but then again they wouldn't be able to squeeze the athletes' pockets for parking and other stuff like they can spectators. A true travesty.

without any chance to run solo or something*

PennTrack just tweeted that she's on the starting line of WPIAL meet right now.

Iowa had something similar happen. Not quite as elite but lost top runner to quarentine (ranked #4 in state in 2A) and then team somehow qualified without him and he gets to run!

https://www.kcci.com/article/with-star-runner-quarantined-central-decatur-qualifies-for-first-state-meet/34527564

Luv2Run wrote:

Old and Slow wrote:

What happened to common sense? This is just plain stupid. Test her, If she tests negative now and again before the meets then she should be good to run. This knee jerk overreaction needs to stop. People need to stop allowing this garbage to continue.

You would need to get the test results back in time.

There are tests where you get the results back in less than 24 hours.

joeshmoe1600 wrote:

This is ridiculous. The PIAA state meet is a joke at this point, they're sending the top teams from each district so you have no-name teams making it from weak districts, while loaded districts only send the top team.

Is this the new standard practice or is this due to Covid? I ran in the WPIAL back in the early 90's and the number of teams and individuals each District sent to PIAAs varied. For example, District 7 (WPIAL) was so large compared to other districts that it sent several teams (I think the top-4 all qualified), while other smaller districts sent lesser numbers. I think a few small districts did only send the district champion team.

This is so sad for this girl. I haven't lived in PA for about 20 years but I do like to try to keep up with the running scene there, especially in the Pittsburgh area. This would be like Carol Zajak, Kathy Knabb, or Amy Rudolph being denied the opportunity to race back in the day.

This isn't on the kid or PIAA/WPIAL, it is a unfortunate situation but the only blame to me is on the school. If they were following the CDC social distancing guidelines she wouldn't have been within 6 feet of a positive case so the need to quarantine wouldn't be a issue.

For everyone saying she is fine, remember symptoms don't magically appear as soon as you come in contact with someone, it takes time. This is why they have the quarantine period of 14 days because that mitigates the risk of someone testing negative and going about their day exposing people only to develop symptoms later and then test positive.

It looks like she got to run and hopefully she remains healthy (it sounds like she was wearing a mask so this is likely) but that might not have been the right decision. Unfortunately the reality of having sports during the pandemic is that things like this are going to happen and it might mean some people miss opportunities but that seems like the price to pay for organizations to be willing to put on these events under the guidelines. As people in this thread have already pointed out it has happen other places just to runners who aren't as well known and will unfortunately continue until a vaccine is in place or we get control of this pandemic.

So the thread title is fake news. Classic LRC.

OP here. It wasn’t fake news this morning, she was only cleared 10 minutes before the start.

Certainly glad she got to run, but wasn’t she playing with fire when she chose to attend in person classes.? Maybe a learning experience for all athletes: just go online. Enough of me talking, she ran outstanding today and I’m sure she’ll dominate at Hershey next week!