Richmond girls hoopsters add COVID-19 to slate of opponents
RICHMOND – The Spartans have an additional opponent this basketball season.
During his first two seasons as Richmond’s varsity girls basketball coach, Chad Snyder and his Spartans saw themselves as their only opponent. But this season, they are competing against the coronavirus pandemic to get in as many games as possible.
“Anybody will be lucky if they get a full season in,” Snyder said Nov. 16 in the high school gym. “I mean, just with the pandemic and people having to quarantine and …, God forbid, if you actually get the coronavirus.”
There are several obstacles, other than just the basketball game itself, he said.
Guard Haylee Weber said she hopes the Spartans get in a full season. Weber, whose other activities include softball, said a full season “allows us to work more as athletes.”
“And I feel like we kind of deserve the season, too,” she said.
The Spartans are not the only team deserving of a full season, Weber said, pointing out that the state high school championships…