Outdoor Team Sports Leagues Return to SF
The San Francisco Department of Public Health and Recreation and Park Department today announced the expansion of youth sports in San Francisco. The City’s anticipated reassignment to the red tier next week will allow outdoor contact sports, organized and supervised through youth sports leagues, all with safety protocols. In order to put kids in the game as soon as possible, Rec and Park has launched a field allocation program in partnership with local youth sports leagues.
Rec and Park’s “Let the Kids Play” program will give youth a fast track back to the sports they love by providing field space to leagues offering a seven-week spring season for soccer, baseball, softball, flag football, and lacrosse. This “mini-season” will start April 10 and run up to Memorial Day. Participants and coaches must follow all precautions outlined in the Health Order. More information on Let the Kids Play can be found here.
Under the new Health Order, outdoor moderate-contact sports such as such as baseball, softball, field hockey, gymnastics, cheerleading, and girls or women’s lacrosse will be permitted with face coverings required at all times except when participants are playing in a competition and easily able to maintain at least six-feet apart from other participants and staff. The Order will also include outdoor high-contact sports permitted in the orange tier, including football, basketball, soccer, rugby, crew and boys’ lacrosse with face coverings worn by participants, coaches and staff at all times.
Adult leagues
With practices beginning April 5 and running through nine weeks, a limited number of adult leagues will be permitted to play. Adult leagues are generally subject to the same safety protocols that apply to outdoor youth sports. Adult league play will run weeknights from April 5 up to Memorial Day, and weekends starting March 27 and 28 for nine weeks. More information will follow with the City’s new Health Order, expected in early-March. Stay tuned for more info here.
