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  1. Heinie Wagner

    Basketball for young kids

    Make sure everyone has a ball - have them bring one if they have to. Get them to spend as much time as possible with everyone having a ball in their hands. It's tough for kids that age to make shots (hopefully they're using low hoops) - but they can learn to dribble Dribble knockout - View...
  2. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Lungarini (CIAC executive director) says they played about 7,800 contests throughout the fall. Including practices, a little more than 31,000 events. Through data they collected, only 7 positive cases (through contact tracing) were linked back to CIAC activities. View...
  3. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Sorry hockey guys - I hope this doesn't carry over to hoops. Does the cold from the ice make it worse for hockey? Governor Lamont, along with the 5 governors in New England (+ NJ), will suspend interstate youth hockey competitions for public/private schools, effective 11/14/2020, until “at...
  4. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    "Water breaks are going to be a major PITA as well. " That was the first thing my son said - how do we do water breaks? and then he said with a mask on they'll need more water breaks than usual Masks are going to get pretty gross too. One of my older sons went an entire season without washing...
  5. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Masks in CT for hoops - at least it seems like practices and games can go on for now.
  6. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    CT youth basketball - nothing through our club but coaches are running teams - weekend games in private facilities are available. Practice time is $$ and tough to come by - will be a weird season with more games than practices, which I hate, but making the most of it
  7. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    I'd wait and see what he does and deal with it then. Sounds like you're in a fairly small town, won't the board member already know the guy? (saying this as a board member for a different sport in a fairly small town)
  8. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Really? Wow! I watched a HS AAU workout/practice tonight in CT (but mostly MA players) and can't imagine those guys doing that with masks on.
  9. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    That's perfect!
  10. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Do people really think you can get a virus from touching a soccer ball that someone else touched? That seems incredibly unlikely.
  11. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Take the mask on and off during live play? Absurdity is the right word. It sounds more like a comedy/parody skit than real world.
  12. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    I was in Derry NH last weekend with my daughter at AAU games, do you mean those guys who do 8 games in a day and barely move? We get a lot more effort than that from the guys at our youth games.
  13. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    I agree, signups for winter sports will be interesting. Not looking forward to having to deal with people on the extremes of either side. I'm in CT. There have been two COVID-19 deaths in CT under 19 years old. Six under 30...
  14. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    There is going to be a shortage of officials for youth sports for sure this fall and winter. I can't imagine officiating a basketball game (and actually trying to keep up) in a mask.
  15. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    I've been to a couple basketball tournaments with squeeze whistles. Horrible. One game they had the guy keeping the clock hit the horn every time he heard a whistle. I can't imagine how bad they'd be outside. Hopefully the electronic onea are better, they should be, my phone is louder than the...
  16. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Umpires aren't wearing masks? What about fouls balls?!?!?! (kidding) It's gotta be extra BRUTAL to be behind the plate, chest protector, shin guards, pants, regular mask plus a COVID mask on a 85-95 degree day.
  17. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    Exactly. Very simple solution there. I wonder how many facilities that host youth sports are going to go out of business? I'm not involved with hockey but I imagine if anyplace with a rink goes under, lots of kids are missing hockey in that area for years to come.
  18. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    The Founders league, a Prep School league with Choate, Loomis, Ethel Walkers, Kingswood Oxford etc. Canceled the Fall Season. individual schools can make their own decisions and play non-league games. Not necessarily going to impact the CIAC (public schools) but it might. If the CIAC schools...
  19. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    My Son's AAU coach (Mass) said Zero Gravity was doing the 4v4 thing, but he thinks they have a tournament in CT this weekend with 5V5. 4V4 seems totally arbitrary. They told us it was 10 on a court at a time - 8 players, 2 refs. They put the rims back up on the outdoor courts around here...
  20. Heinie Wagner

    2020 youth sports what are leagues doing

    First little league games in our town last night! Umps behind the pitcher's mound. Players spread out in the area behind the backstop with parents on either side of the field up the basepaths. I actually love that they put parents farther away from the players, I hate it when parents coach in games.