Eagle Pass C.C. Winn High School Coach Tests Positive for COVID-19, District Suspends U.I.L. Football Workouts Until July 6
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Eagle Pass Independent School District (EPISD) Superintendent Samuel Mijares announced at a press conference held on Thursday, June 18, 2020, at the District’s Board Room that due to a surge of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in Maverick County with over 200 reported to date he was “going to suspend all football workouts until July 6, 2020” to avoid community spread of the coronavirus to students and staff.
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) of Texas had previously ruled that all Texas high school could, but not required to, begin summer strength and conditioning, skills instruction and marching band practices and rehearsals on Monday, June 8, 2020.
The Eagle Pass Business Journal has learned that a coach at C. C. Winn High School tested positive for COVID-19 last week and was in self-isolation and quarantine, precipitating the District’s concerns whether to continue with the summer strength and conditioning program and the skills instruction of football players at both Eagle Pass High School and C. C. Winn High School on June 8 or suspend them until July 6 in order to protect the student-athletes and coaches from becoming infected with the deadly virus.
EPISD Superintendent Mijares stated at the June 18 press conference that the he had decided to suspend “all football workouts until July 6.”
Mijares did not specify, nor did any of the news media present questioned him, whether he was only suspending football workouts or all of the summer athletics strength and conditioning programs for all sports as well as for marching bands. From the press conference, Mijares appeared to state that he was suspending all summer athletics and marching band programs until July 6.
EPISD student-athletes and parents having any questions regarding Mijares’ decision to suspend all football workouts until July 6 should contact their respective campus athletic administrators, Eric Villasenor at C.C. Winn High School and Tom Gonzalaz at Eagle Pass High School, while marching band students and parents should likewise contact the band director of each respective high school.
