Football quarantine and COVID case cancel Campus games against Maize South and Andover
Another Wichita area high school has been forced to cancel football games because of coronavirus cases and a team quarantine.
Campus High School in Haysville announced Monday that varsity football games will not be played this week against Maize South and next week against Andover. Junior varsity and freshman games against those schools are still scheduled.
The decision was made “Due to USD 261 District Covid-19 quarantine requirements that a positive test result and those having close contact with any person with a positive test result are quarantined,” school administrators said in a Facebook post.
Campus appears to be the third team in the Wichita area to see positive coronavirus tests during the season and lose games because of it. Andover Central was the first after one positive test prompted cancellation of its Week 2 game at Buhler. Derby on Monday became the second, with the whole team going into a two-week quarantine, according to the student newspaper.
“About 20 players told yearbook and newspaper staffers Monday morning that the football team was told it would be quarantined through Oct. 1,” the Panther’s Tale reported.
But school district administrators said in a Facebook post just before 5 p.m. Monday that Friday’s football game has not been canceled, despite a “temporary” quarantine. Derby High School has two confirmed cases, which led to the required quarantine of the football team and students from certain classrooms.
Derby was scheduled to play Salina South on Friday.
“The game on Friday has not been canceled at this point because the Health Department is working with one of the students who tested positive to determine who close contacts are or if the entire team has to remain in quarantine,” the district Facebook post read. “We should have updated information from the Health Department soon. The current quarantine was the direction provided to us by the Health Department and will stay into effect until their investigation is completed.”
This story was originally published September 21, 2020 at 5:33 PM.