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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nPueblo High School girls\u2019 basketball head coach, Ismael Galindo, has been coaching at Pueblo for nine years. This year, Coach Galindo and the Pueblo team have been required to follow a number of rules due to the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To stay safe, players must remain six feet apart and wear masks at all time, rules that the district enforces. Galindo said that he follows all of the rules and safety regulations to ensure his players stay safe throughout the 2020-2021 school year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe challenges have been hard, but they are requirements if we want to have a season,\u2019\u2019 said Galindo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
COVID-19 testing occurs once every week or every two weeks for players and coaches. Mr. Miguel Sandoval, who is known to most as \u201cCoach Miggs\u201d, Pueblo\u2019s athletic director, enforces these requirements. If a player tests positive, the entire team has to follow district rules and guidelines\u2014that is, the entire team has to sit out for no less than two weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Galindo said, \u201cI don\u2019t like getting tested because it\u2019s really uncomfortable, but it\u2019s necessary.\u2019\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Galindo is not letting this pandemic affect his coaching. He is here to do his job and make his players better. All he wants this year is to have a season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI feel bad watching everyone struggle, running around in masks. It bugs me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Learning and following all the new rules has been a challenge for coach. Checking temperatures every day and printing out the daily COVID-19 screening sheet is something he and his players just have to get used to daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coach said, \u201cWe have to follow all Arizona Interscholastic Association and TUSD rules, and now we have to follow all the COVID-19 rules.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The seniors graduating this year are the last group of girls who advanced to the championship in 2018. Coach wants to make their last year special by hanging up their banners in both gyms, giving them their jersey frames and putting a picture of them in the trophy case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSenior Night might be earlier in the season due to COVID-19,\u201d Galindo said. \u201cI want to make sure the seniors have a ceremony even if it means they have to do it outside, one family at a time. Some of these girls have played for me all four years at Pueblo, and that means a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One senior player, JaeDee Lopez, said, \u201cNot having a normal senior year has really affected me. Sometimes I lost motivation for everything, including playing basketball. But, I\u2019m going to keep my confidence up and make the most of this situation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another senior, Alexis Enriquez, said, \u201cWhenever life seems difficult or things keep changing, the best thing to do is to keep moving forward and keep positive. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing, and that\u2019s what keeps me going.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior Getsemani Cazares said, \u201cFor a while, we weren\u2019t even sure if we were going to have a season. Last year, when I was a junior, I couldn\u2019t play due to an injury, so it\u2019s really important to me that I get to play before I graduate.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Galindo is really looking forward to playing against their new division. They are working hard to make this season successful no matter what teams they play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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