How the SCHSL is protecting against the coronavirus at state high school hoops games

The South Carolina High School League is putting in place safeguards against the coronavirus, flu and cold as a way to help protect the health and safety of spectators at this weekend’s state championship games, according to a league press release.

The league is working in conjunction with Colonial Life Arena in Columbia to provide hand sanitizer throughout the venue, the release said. It will also regularly sanitize bathrooms and have health professionals on site throughout the event.

“The administration and athletic staff at our member schools are well versed in the precautionary measures being taken across the state to prevent the spread of the COVID-19,” SCHSL Commissioner Jerome Singleton said in the release. “We are circling back over each health and sanitary step in place at the arena to keep everyone from harm’s way.”

As of Tuesday evening, there have been no confirmed cases of the coronavirus in South Carolina.

This story was originally published March 4, 2020 at 5:00 AM.

Alex Zietlow

The Herald

Alex Zietlow writes about sports and the ways in which they intersect with life in York, Chester and Lancaster counties for The Herald, where he has been an editor and reporter since August 2019. Zietlow has won nine S.C. Press Association awards in his career, including First Place finishes in Feature Writing, Sports Enterprise Writing and Education Beat Reporting. He also received two Top-10 awards in the 2021 APSE writing contest and was nominated for the 2022 U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Rising Star award for his coverage of the Winthrop men’s basketball team.