“The only thing constant is change” is a phrase that clearly has meaning during these times of the COIVD-19 pandemic. That goes for high school sports in Iowa. The baseball and softball postseason are over for the Greene County Rams, with Fall sports starting in early August.

Head football coach Caden Duncan enters his second season at the helm with a lot of positions to fill on the field from last season’s Class 2A top 10 ranked team that went 9-2 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the playoffs.

In addition to personnel, the coach has to figure out a number of things related to practices and games when it comes to dealing with the pandemic. “There will be definite changes to the preparation. The only problem is nobody is 100% sure what that will look like. We’re preparing for everything because we know there’s going to be changes to busing, to using locker rooms, to not being able to have 50-60 guys in a big huddle at the same time, so organizing practicing is going to have to look different. We’re brainstorming different ways we can spread kids out and exploring ways we can get the same things accomplished, but in a different way.”

Football camp is set to begin in two weeks with August 10 the first official practice date for all Fall sports in Iowa.