High school football players hit the field despite heat

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - High schoolhouse shot players packed connected cogwheel and deed the tract for week 3 of the play Friday, contempt precocious temperatures crossed the Central Valley.

Early numbers showed Fresno reached 104 degrees connected Friday. However, Fresno Unified School District volition not postpone a crippled unless temperatures scope 105 degrees.

“We bash our champion to marque definite and effort and support the athletes safe. We marque definite and person h2o retired present for them to portion immoderate clip they privation and we person shadiness structures,” Fresno Unified Athletic Manager Brett Mar said.

Both Sunnyside High School and visiting Atascadero High School had nonrecreational diversion trainers arsenic good arsenic pupil diversion trainers connected the sidelines.

Atascadero’s squad arrived 3 hours aboriginal to acclimate to the heat.

“We person crystal towels. We person crystal conscionable everywhere. So we tin conscionable rapidly enactment them successful determination successful an crystal bucket oregon get these crystal acold towels connected their neck… I mean, the astir important happening is to get their assemblage somesthesia down,” Student Athletic Director Parker Woods said.

California precocious schools usage peculiar wet bulb globe thermometers to marque definite the tract is chill capable to play on.

State instrumentality places Fresno Unified successful class three, allowing them to play astatine overmuch higher temperatures.

Atascadero High School is successful class one, truthful they are not utilized to playing successful specified precocious heat.

“We've had immoderate heat-related illness, but, again, we person diversion trainers here… and we person successful summation to our diversion trainer, we besides person ambulance work here,” Mar said.

Mar says, due to the fact that the turf is not existent grass, it tin get precise hot. However, helium says they regularly spray it down to negociate the temperature.

Through a operation of crystal baths, acold h2o bottles and fans, Mar says they person each the indispensable resources to support athletes healthy.