Any senior high principal, junior high principal,
athletic director and female athletic representative
interested in serving on the PIAA Committee should have a
recommendation letter submitted, on school letterhead, so
their names can be placed on the ballots, to Jackie Mento at
201 6th Street, Cresson PA by March 3, 2021. They may also
be emailed to
mentojp@pcam.org.
If you are elected to sit on the District 6 Committee your
term will start on July 1, 2021.
Senior High Representatives: This appointment is for
one year and candidates are reappointed each year by the
schools in District 6.
Junior High Representative: This appointment is for
two years. There are two junior high representatives.
Athletic Director Representative: This appointment is
for two years. Only one (of two) position is available in
this cycle.
Female Athletic Representative: This appointment is
for two years.
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Some
of you have been asking if this is a D6 rule and/or
interpretation or PIAA rule. D6 does not have the authority
to create our own set of mandates outside of PIAA by-laws.
This was clarified during our PIAA BOD meeting on Wednesday,
January 27th.
This is due to the Governors/DOH’s
mandate and exemption clause as it relates to masking
requirements.
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Our regular PIAA BOD meeting
was held yesterday afternoon and I want to provide some
updates.
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Updates will start coming
out from D6 Sport Chairs with specific information
related to our D6 Winter Championships.
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Teams may continue to
compete up through March 27th as long as you
don’t exceed the minimum number of regular season
competitions.
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Teams may schedule
regular season contests during the playoff windows. Ex.
Long layoff between games in basketball playoffs.
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Mike and I are going to
ask Ralph to develop a Google Doc that will be
requesting specific information related to your
gymnasiums and masking expectations. We will get that
out to all of you in early February.
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Please make sure your
coaches are reporting the results of your games to Tom
Elling and Barry Kline and that your record is accurate
on the D6 webpage.
Clarification on Masking
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Once playoffs start,
any team or individual athlete that refuses to compete
due to masking requirements will forfeit.
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Scenario 1: Penn
Cambria school district requires all visiting teams
to wear masks at any of our home events. We are a
higher seed in basketball and set to host TEAM A,
that team has received a waiver to not wear masks
during competition. If PC says we wont play unless
TEAM A wears masks, Penn Cambria would forfeit for
refusing to compete.
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I ask all of you
to connect with your District leadership and
confirm the stance your school will take as it
relates to hosting schools that will not be
wearing masks.
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D6 would permit a
school that stands firm on their home masking
requirement to defer to the lower seed to host
that game so they would not need to forfeit.
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Scenario 2: A school
requires their wrestlers to wear masks. Student A is
wrestling a student that is not required to wear a
mask. If student A refuses to wrestle, student A
forfeits.
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The goal of D6 is to
be proactive with all of these scenarios and collect
information from our member schools so everyone is aware
of what is expected well before the event. We do not
want teams to show up for a D6 playoff game to find out
the game or match will be forfeited.
We have the benefit of time
since the start of D6 winter sports championships have been
pushed back. I want to start these communications and
discussions now so NO ONE feels like they had to
make a rushed judgement or decision. Our D6 Committee meets
February 3rd and will start to finalize the
specific details of each winter sport championship.
If you have any questions
related to a specific winter sports championship, please
reach out to that specific sports chair.
Member Schools
Athletic Openings
