Players battle heat in preparation for Kansas Shrine Bowl

HAYS, Kan. (KWCH) – As a substitute of coping with the standard chill within the air typically related to the guts of soccer season, athletes getting ready for Saturday’s Kansas Shrine Bowl in Pittsburg are having to acclimate to a a lot completely different forecast.

Between this being the most well liked week in Kansas and gamers working towards on turf soccer fields, coaches say they’re taking precautions to ensure the athletes keep protected. The West Squad is working towards at Fort Hays State College.

“After we bought right here, we really simply began adjusting. Like, ‘hear, no person’s gonna get sick or damage.’ We’re right here for an ideal trigger, however none of those youngsters should have one thing unhealthy occur to him,” Wichita Collegiate Excessive College Head Soccer Coach Troy Black mentioned. “So, if now we have to follow half-hour and go right into a health club or one thing to stroll by way of, that’s what we’re going to do.”

Apply occasions was one main adjustment Black and different Shrine Bowl coaches needed to make. The practices are staring earlier within the morning and later within the night with shorter day out in the course of the afternoons.

“We type of shortened issues down. We’re going about an hour and a half within the morning and we type of bumped it up as early as we will,” Black mentioned. “We’re type of tying into the breakfast schedule. Night, we push issues again, so we’re ending underneath the lights. The afternoon, we’re simply actually doing a walkthrough.”

With any type of exercise within the triple-digit warmth, it’s necessary to remain hydrated, and there’s an additional emphasis on that for this yr’s Shrine Bowl.

“We’ve accomplished the perfect we will to maintain them hydrated with water breaks,” Black mentioned. “We’ll have large, five-minute water breaks for everyone each 15 to twenty minutes.”

Though the excessive temperatures are altering the follow schedule, the gamers say their work ethic hasn’t modified.

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