LHSAA shuts down wrestling season until state meet
High School Wrestling (Source: WAFB)
By WAFB Staff | January 27, 2021 at 11:13 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 5:18 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The LHSAA held a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 24 hours after shutting down wrestling until the state meet in Baton Rouge at the end of February.
The move was made after a reported COVID outbreak connected to the Louisiana Classics meet at Lamar Dixon in mid-January.
“To my knowledge, as I sit here today, we had five athletes from four schools that tested positive for COVID,” said LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine. “One or two allegedly, we’re working on that, were positive before they got to the tournament.”