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Still no resolution on Connecticut’s fall football season, after 3-hour meeting between CIAC, DPH

After a nearly 3-hour meeting Friday morning, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and state officials still have not come to a full resolution on a fall high school football season.

CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini said that the association used the meeting to present what it feels is a substantial plan to mitigate the spread of coronavirus on the football field. The CIAC is now waiting for the state Department of Public Health, along with other officials, to respond to the plan, he said.

“There’s no question that football is high-risk,” Lungarini said. “At this time we have presented additional mitigating strategies .