Lauderdale High School Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Impact on high school football across north alabama.

We begin with waay 1's breken terry live at brooks high school after the lauderdale county's school superintendent confirmed the football player tested positive over the weekend.

Breken?

>> yeah, that's right, guys.

The superintendent told me the football player did not have any symptoms when he played in their first football game last thursday and has not been at school since he tested positive over the weekend.

Guys, i can tell you it is packed here.

I mean, i fully expected to be able to pull upright here at the gate entrance and to just park there quick and do this live shot but when i got here this entire parking lot around here is already packed with people.

I have seen several people walking up to the gate over here.

Some of them are wearing masks, some are not wearing masks.

The superintendent, however, did tell me that they're only allowing 50% capacity into the stadium but i truly do not see how that is possible with the amount of cars and people that are already here an hour were this game even starts.

Now, i can look over here into the stands just a little bit and i see a lot of people already sitting in there.

I can't tell if they have masks on but the superintendent told me to come into this game you have got to wear a mask.

But a police officer was actually directing traffic here.

I asked him, is the school not limiting capacity in here?

And he said we have no way to do that.

Because we're just helping people park and directing parking right now.

So once again, i'm about to go into this game right now but i truly don't know how they're going to handle this inside with this many people here because they're playing sheffield.

That is obviously a school that's just right across the river.

So going to be a big hometown game and everything.

As you can see, a lot of people are packing into this stadium.

We've still got, what, 45 minutes, 50 minutes before the game starts.

It will be interesting to see how many people show up here and how and if social distancing and wearing of masks inside of the