While COVID stunted participation rates across the sport, numbers are finally starting to tick up again
On the eve of the high school girls' basketball season in the Okanagan, coaches across the region are still feeling the long-standing impact COVID-19 had on the sport.
"I think volleyball is a lot easier to get into, because there's not as much contact, right,” Faust explained. “With basketball, there is physical contact, and so perhaps that's part of it, and this is my own bias coming in, but I think that volleyball has less cardio, so it is not quite as hard.” “I continued to coach all the way through , and likely spent more time in the gym with kids during COVID-19, because they had nothing else,” he said. “It really wasn't even about basketball. There was nothing else going on, but we were lucky enough to keep practicing. I know that there were many, many schools that did nothing and so there was nothing for those kids."
Gurasci feels that basketball has leaned into more of a club-based business model, where clubs and academies try to keep kids invested all year. “There is this push now that we have to practice and use the same skills all the time. I've got three or four girls who do basketball on their own six days a week. They're either pumping weights, shooting shots, or working on their skills. They are unbelievably dedicated to this, and I would have never had that in the past, because kids were doing multiple sports, right? So that's the good part.
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