By LORENZO RECUPERO
It’s the first week of May, it’s just after 2:30pm, the sun is shining and ballparks around the city are filling with young athletes waiting to stretch their muscles and show their stuff on the diamond.
Longtime Crimson Tide softball coach Stacy Schiavo is rolling ground balls to the infielders while her assistants toss balls to batters standing ready at home plate stationed just steps below the main entrance of Everett High School.
Outfielders call to each other to recover the balls battered by contact while Schiavo shouts a reminder of form to a group of girls taking swipes at the balls rolling their way.
That scene was common last year.
This year, there’s no such scene to be seen.
Instead of softball and sunshine on the diamond, the spring of 2020 is sport-less as playing fields remain closed to the public.
Athletes and coaches alike are being forced to remain apart while remaining active.
In essence, coaches are not coaching this season. At least not in the traditional ways that we consider normal.
Coaching on the field this spring has forcibly taken a benching to coaching from afar. Something coach Schiavo and her staff have tried their best to do at a time when being close is hard.
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