KC McGinnis

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For ESPN: Iowa high school baseball reopens amid the pandemic
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For ESPN: Iowa high school baseball reopens amid the pandemic
Copyright KC McGinnis 2024
Date of Work Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Updated Jun 2020
Location Iowa
Topics Aerial, Baseball, Editorial, Epidemics, Pandemics, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, School/College, Sports, Spotlight, Teens, Youth
On June 1, Iowa allowed high school sports including baseball and softball to resume their summer schedules — the first state in the nation to re-open sanctioned high school athletics. I visited the practice of St. Mary's division 1A baseball team in Storm Lake, where just weeks ago 555 employees at a local Tyson plant were reported to have tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is just a mile from the St. Mary's practice field along the lakeshore, and the team captain's mother works at the plant. The captain, Fransisco Gonzalez Vasquez, and the team's coach, Alex Schwing, both have Type 1 Diabetes, which puts them at a higher risk for complications from COVID-19.

Schwing is doing his best to enact precautions for himself and his team, including frequent hand sanitizing and social distancing, but no one knows what the season will bring. Read the full story and watch the video at the link above. 'Hydrate and Sanitize!' That's the call as high school sports return in Iowa
Hundreds of softball and baseball teams played opening-day games Monday in Iowa -- the first state to play a sanctioned high school sports season as the United States nervously reopens during the coronavirus pandemic.
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