UIL to allow summer workouts starting June 8

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In response to Monday’s announcement from Governor Greg Abbott, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) announced that it is in the process of allowing schools to begin limited summer strength and conditioning activities June 8.
While the details remain unclear, Snyder athletic director Wes Wood said the program would resume activity this summer.
“It gets out and it gets to social media and everyone starts thinking ‘yea, we are back,’” he said. “Things aren’t quite like that. It is very vague as to what exactly is going to be allowed, so to me things are still fluid. I am hanging onto the hope that we will get to resume, but it is still kind of up in the air as to what things will look like.”
The UIL wrote in a Twitter post that more details will be finalized over the next few weeks.
Wood said he expects there to be limits on the summer workouts.
“I think that those guidelines are going to limit you on the number of kids and it is going to limit you as to what you can do in a weight room setting,” he said. “I think there are going to be a lot of guidelines that come along with it, but shoot, you take what you can get.”
Wood and his staff are focused on controlling what they can right now.
“The cold hard fact about it is, we don’t get to make those decisions,” he said. “We just have to trust the people who are in those seats to make the right decision and keep everybody safe. I think things in August may be back to normal, but it is kind of like beating your head up against a wall trying to guess what things will look like. We will control what we can control and from there, I really wouldn’t look too far into things.”