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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact education and extracurricular activities in the Saucon Valley School District, with five additional cases confirmed and a high school athletic team quarantined this week as a result of them.
Following the confirmation of two additional coronavirus cases at Saucon Valley High School and the closure of the school for 14 days based on Pennsylvania Department of Education guidelines, the district’s athletic department announced Monday that all team-related athletic activities have been canceled through Nov. 15.
After several delays to the start of their season because of COVID-19, the Saucon Valley varsity football team will finally hit the gridiron Saturday, five weeks after their first game was scheduled to be played.
State officials have reversed course on a policy banning spectators at school sporting events, although it remains to be seen how impactful the decision will be, with other limits on attendance still in place.
A surprise comment Gov. Tom Wolf made at a news conference Thursday threw much of Pennsylvania’s high school athletics community into a tizzy.
The Municipal Ice Rink in Bethlehem has been transformed by St. Luke’s University Health Network into a vast, well-ventilated summer fitness center for local high school and college athletes.
If you’ve been to a Saucon Valley High School football game over the past decade then chances are you’ve seen Amy Virden, and witnessed the positive influence she has on the students whose health she helps safeguard.
Saucon Valley High School recently lost its boys and girls varsity swim coach, and with a new season set to begin Nov. 18 supporters of the program say it is urgent that a new head coach is found as soon as possible.
Saucon Valley Cross Country held a meet Tuesday in which 321 runners from eight schools participated in three 5K races. The other participating schools included Moravian Academy, Notre Dame-East Stroudsburg, Notre Dame-Green Pond, Palmerton, Palisades, Northern Lehigh and Northwestern.
A host of young athletes from St. Michael the Archangel School in Upper Saucon Township took home gold, silver and bronze medals from the end-of-season Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) district championships Sunday at the Emmaus High School track.