DALTON, Ga. – Some day, perhaps next year or the year after when the sports world has returned to some sort of normalcy, Danny Wilson will look back on the 2020 high school football season with a sense of accomplishment.
Right now, though, Coahulla Creek’s first-year head coach is too invested in keeping his team healthy while also trying to be competitive to think about it. If a typical football season is viewed as a marathon, Wilson and the Colts are in the process of sprinting for more than half of it.
Like dozens of prep sports programs in Georgia, Coahulla Creek had its season altered due to positive COVID-19 tests for its athletes. Three players tested positive in one week just more than a month ago, forcing the Whitfield County Health Department to consider it a “cluster,” which basically shut the team down for 14 days.
The Colts had just started play in Region 6-AAA and were set to face North Murray and Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe during those two weeks. With the help of the Georgia High School Association, Coahulla Creek athletic director Chris Woods was able to reschedule the games.
However, to accomplish that meant the Colts would play six times in 23 days. They are halfway through the busy stretch, having lost close games to Murray County, 15-7 on Friday, Oct. 16, and North Murray, 28-14 the next Tuesday, before being blown out against Adairsville this past Saturday.