The Trenton R-IX Athletic Department has announced that a player on the Trenton High School volleyball team has tested positive for COVID-19, bringing a halt to the team’s early season schedule. Athletic Director John Cowling says, as a result of the positive test, the entire player roster and coaching staff will be quarantined from “the point of last contact with the positive case”.
The Grundy County Health Department in Trenton has been contacted concerning the positive case, and will be working in partnership with the R-IX District to decipher close contacts and notify those people that they will need to be watching for potential symptoms over the next several days.
Parents of Trenton’s volleyball team are being asked to monitor their children for COVID-19 symptoms, including loss of taste or smell, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, cough combined with congestion or a runny nose, headache, sore throat, a fever with a body temperature of 100.4 degrees or greater, chills, fatigure, muscle or body aches, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. If those symptoms are noted, parents are urged to immediately contact the family doctor.
Pertaining to the schedule, all matches between today (September 8th) and the player’s returning date of Wednesday, September 16th, have been postponed. Athletic Director Cowling is attempting to reschedule those contests for a future date. Postponed matches include Tuesday, September 8th vs. Plattsburg; Thursday, September 10th at Carrollton; Monday, September 14th at Hamilton; and Tuesday, September 15th at South Harrison.
