{"id":410843,"date":"2024-07-09T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410843"},"modified":"2024-07-09T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:04:48","slug":"illinois-high-school-cancels-varsity-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410843","title":{"rendered":"Illinois high school cancels varsity football season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no high school football season at Riverton High School (Ill.) in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Activities director Katie Nichols <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/07\/Football-July-2024-Press-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a statement<\/a> saying the decision was made &#8220;after low participation numbers and for the safety of our student-athletes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While there will be no varsity team in 2024, there will be a JV program. The goal is to build from there and have a varsity team again in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Riverton High School Cancels Its 2024 Varsity Football Season\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpEb2RJ5xx4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Riverton High School is a member of the Sangamo Conference in the Springfield area. It has gone 1-17 over the past two seasons. In a winless 2023, it was outscored 485-73.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related shortcode shortcode--related\">\n<h2 class=\"related__header\">Related<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/investigation-continues-fatal-crash-khyree-jackson\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Investigation continues into fatal crash of Khyree Jackson, two high school football teammates<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/hawaii-top-2025-qb-jaron-keawe-sagapolutele-picks-cal\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Hawaii&#039;s top 2025 recruit QB Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele commits to Cal<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/georgia-football-lands-overtime-elite-hoops-star-6-foot-10-330-pound-jahzare-jackson\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Georgia football lands Overtime Elite hoops star 6-foot-10, 330-pound Jahzare Jackson<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Riverton High School has won one of its last 17 football games. The school will build the program from the JV level and not have a varsity (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410845,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410843\/revisions\/410845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}