The biggest travesty of all from yesterday’s district cross country meet was how Ontario’s Brienne Trumpower was treated. She was contact traced and had the opportunity to compete taken away which resulted in the Lady Warriors missing out on a team spot at regionals by 2 points.

Trumpower had and still had no symptoms, but because she was around someone who tested positive (while wearing a mask mind you) she was ordered by state guidelines to quarantine for 14 days causing her to miss the race on Saturday.

According to her father, every avenue was exhausted in trying to get her cleared to run. They offered to provide three negative tests over 3 days. Nope. She had been training on her own in preparation for this opportunity and it is all wasted because of fear.

What are we doing here people? From everything the Twitter M.D.s have said to me when I downplayed this virus, it takes 14 days to SHOW SYMPTOMS. Not 14 days to test positive. Test athletes who get contact traced and if they are negative consistently, let them participate!

What a disservice we are doing to kids who are in the age range that have a 99.97% chance of not just overcoming the virus, but not even show symptoms! Contact traced? Require negative results in order to compete. Simple. But no!

We have to treat people who are even contact traced like they are the plague. It is amazing to me. And the fact we as people are letting this happen to kids blows my mind. It is time for people in power positions to change things. But I’m not optimistic.

All I can say is I’m sorry to Trumpower and the Lady Warriors. I can’t even begin to imagine how you are feeling and most of all, I’m sorry we as people failed you.