Swimmers face unique set of COVID-19 challenges
“I’m scared to death, to be quite honest.”
Indian Creek swimming and diving coach Brad Smith didn’t dance around it when asked whether he had concerns about his team’s season being impacted by the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.
And he’s got good reason to worry. With coronavirus numbers hitting alarming highs across Indiana — the state had the worst infection rate in the country last week, according to The COVID Tracking Project — and more than half of the counties in the state now in the red on the color-coding chart, in-person schooling and high school athletics are on shakier ground than they’ve been since the spring, when an entire season was wiped out.