Members of the Trenton High School football team, along with the coaching staff, have been sent home and placed in quarantine after a football player tested positive for COVID-19.
Superintendent Mike Stegman said the quarantine involves team members and coaches only and that the situation is being handled according to Missouri State High School Activities Association guidelines. Those guidelines, which are part of the Trenton R-9 “Back to School Plan,” require that when a participant or coach/director is confirmed to have COVID-19, “all participants who have had close contact with this individual, or a direct exposure to
secretions (i.e. being coughed on) (up to 48 hours before they started showing symptoms) should be excluded from practice and play for 14 days.” The plan states the local health department should be contacted to assist in proper contact tracing and quarantining of individuals. “If there was doubt of who the individual came into contact with,” the guideline states, “then the entire team/group that practiced/rehearsed or competed with the individual should be quarantined for 14 days. Teams/Groups should keep documentation of names and contact information of opposing teams/groups, coaches/directors, and officials/adjudicators for contact tracing purposes.”
The school district will be working with the Grundy County Health Department to conduct a close contact investigation and any students or adults determined to be close contacts will be notified. The health department is also sending packets to all quarantined individuals.
As a result, Friday night’s varsity football game at Princeton has been postponed. THS will be contact with all schools on the high school football schedule between now and the players’ anticipated return date of Sept. 22 in an attempt to reschedule the contests.
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