Athletic Director Kim Ensing said Allan Hancock College is all in when it comes to a Spring 2 sports season.
“In fact, we just sent in our opt-in paperwork for all our Spring 2 sports, and we’re excited,” Ensing said. “It’s been good just to get out there again. We’re having an intrasquad soccer scrimmage right now, and it’s been fun to watch.”
Men’s and women’s soccer are Spring 1 sports, while the Spring 2 sports include baseball, softball, men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s swimming, and men’s golf.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Community College Athletic Association created a two-season sports calendar that has all sports being conducted in the spring.
Community colleges had until Friday to declare whether they’re opting in to compete in the Spring 2 season, which runs from mid-April to June.
“We will have the entire statewide list of schools that have opted in for Spring 2 sports next week,” Ensing said.
She acknowledged that Hancock’s Spring 2 sports schedule most likely will look much different than the tentative one that is on the school’s website now.
“I don’t know anything definitive yet, but we have heard that some of the schools that were on our Spring sports 2 schedule have opted out,” she said.
Santa Barbara City College announced earlier in the week that it was opting out of the Spring 2 season. Cuesta appeared to be a guaranteed opponent for Hancock baseball and softball teams.
The Hancock women’s and men’s basketball teams are set to take on Cuesta’s squads at Hancock’s Joe White Memorial Gymnasium on March 5. The women’s game is set to tip off at 3 p.m and the men’s game at 6 p.m.
Ensing said football games appear out for the Spring 1 season.
“We’re hoping for a couple of scrimmages, but that’s it,” she said.