High school fall sports are facing a delay to the start of their seasons. The State Athletic Association decided to let schools open and get testing protocols in place before beginning the fall athletic schedules in late September.

Due to the late start, the fall state championships are being canceled.

"Schools are being challenged by how are they going to reopen? And, to add another element of interscholastic sports participation to that challenge, we felt, as an association that represents member schools and approximately 600,000 student-athletes, that it's in the best interest of our member schools and those student-athletes to take a pause, allow schools to reopen, make sure students are able to take care of their academics first and foremost and then at that point, integrate and implement and athletic program," said Executive Director of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Robert Zayas.

"You just have to be able to control what you can control, and we outlined the four goals that we have at the beginning of the year, three of them are still left for us, should we be able to have a season," said Aquinas football coach Derek Annechino. "Nobody asks for a once every 100-year pandemic to happen, but when it does, you just make sure that you're, first and foremost, keeping the kids safe and second of all, providing them with as much opportunity as possible."

There is a contingency plan where, if fall sports can't start in September, they could have a season beginning in March.