KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Bishop Miege football team has been quarantined since Monday after several players tested positive for COVID-19.
The Stags won’t be allowed to resume practice until Sept. 7 at the earliest.
Miege, which is located in Roeland Park, has become one of the best football programs in Kansas under coach Jon Holmes, who has led the Stags to six straight stale titles.
Miege won the Kansas Class 4A-Division I championship from 2014 to 2017 and added back-to-back Class 4A titles the last two seasons after the divisions were unified again.
The Stags’ first two games — Sept. 4 against Blue Valley North and Sept. 11 versus BV Northwest — were already postponed after the Blue Valley decided to postpone athletics until at least Sept. 18.
Miege is scheduled to open the season Sept. 18 at St. Thomas Aquinas.
Another Eastern Kansas League football, the Blue Valley West Jaguars, was placed in a precautionary quarantine last week after positive tests within the program.
Other Kansas City area schools, including BV North and Shawnee Mission East in Johnson County, have confirmed COVID-19 cases among student-athletes during summer workouts.
The reigning Thomas A. Simone Award winner, Arland Bruce IV of Olathe North, recently announced he was transferring to Ankeny, Iowa, over uncertainty about whether the 2019 Kansas Class 6A runners-up Eagles would be allowed to play this fall. Bruce has committed to the University of Iowa.
There also have been confirmed cases among athletic programs in the Blue Springs School District, but the Suburban Conference, which includes the bigger schools and districts in Clay, Jackson and Platte counties, voted earlier this week to continue fall sports as scheduled.
