• Introductory Practice: Consider an introductory session that walks through new routines including how to enter and exit the location/facility, change clothing (when applicable) and create their own physical distance in an activity space.
• Follow the school board/athletic association policies and processes for screening and contact tracing for home and visiting teams.
• Share procedures that will be followed for student screening, contact tracing, symptom development during an activity, and for when an individual (student, staff, official/referee) tests positive for COVID-19.
• Congregating: As much distancing as possible between students, between students and staff and between staff members should be promoted. As a result, students should be directed to not socialize or gather before or after a interschool athletic activity.
• Protective Measures: School boards/schools should identify the protective measures/controls (for example, indoors/outdoors, cohorting, masking, distancing) and appropriate instructional strategies for:
  • high-contact activities: sports/activities where there is physical contact and/or close proximity required between individuals; and
  • low-Contact activities: sports/activities that involve intermittent close proximity or limited, incidental physical contact between participants and allow for physical distancing most of the time.
• If food is offered at any event (for example, practice, competition), check school board/public health policies to determine what can be served (for example, pre-packaged boxes or bags) and ensure that food handlers use safe food handling and COVID-19 safety practices.

Communicate to students the importance of:

• refraining from touching eyes, nose, mouth and face during activity;
• personal hand hygiene practices before, during, and after trainings, practices, and competitions;
• respiratory etiquette during physical activity (for example, sneezing or coughing into the crook of the elbow, no spitting, no clearing of nasal passages); and
• eliminating the use of scents to reduce sneezing and coughing.

Follow school board/public health policies and procedures for the transportation of students for interschool athletic activities. Consider the following:

• share the transportation with the same students each time;
• open windows for ventilation;
• maximize distance between individuals in the vehicle;
• all individuals inside the vehicle wear a mask;
• when possible, organize seating so that students are side by side or behind others, rather than facing each other;
• keep a list/seating chart of transportation arrangements (for example, who shared a car, where students sat on a bus) to facilitate contact tracing.