Hybrid sports is a new way of following covid protocols while also doing indoor sports. Some days, students do a virtual workout; other days they play their respective sports.
Chair of the Pandemic Response Team Kathy Dunn, eighth-grader Leo Sussman, and seventh-grader Adam Gold all agreed that hybrid sports have been a good solution to the limitations of covid. As Leo said, “Some schools don’t have sports at all, so we are lucky to have them.”
Hybrid sports are very different from traditional sports. Some things that are different from regular sports are that many people have them for only one or two days, when others have them three or four days. There is also less contact for sports that require contact. For some sports like basketball, it is very difficult to play them normally. “Teamwork will suffer,” Mrs. Dunn said.
However, it’s not all bad when it comes to hybrid sports. “It gives you more time to finish homework,” Adam said.
Hybrid sports have affected all sports in some way, but some activities have definitely been impacted more than others. Mrs. Dunn, Leo, and Adam all think that basketball has been affected the most, and that sports like cross country and swimming have been affected the least.
Students and teachers both felt that the majority of people think that traditional sports are better than hybrid sports. But when asked about when the school will go back to traditional sports, Mrs. Dunn said, “When we get back to sports that can be played outside.” An additional possibility of resuming traditional sports could be “when everyone has the vaccine and it is 100 percent effective,” Adam said.
