The Waynesville high school athletic programs are on pause until Aug. 31 after two high school students tested positive for COVID-19. The high school will start classes virtually on Aug. 25 as a result. (COVID positives) was not within the sports athletics whatsoever. There was a case where some students in the high school that were participating in some different orientations. That tested positive Tuesday Aug 18th when Waynesville H.S was made aware. The contact tracing was just too widespread for the district be able to centralize it. As a precaution we will push pause and start virtually and crank back up in two weeks and go from there,” Waynesville head football coach Joe Haynes said. The pause means that Waynesville football won’t be traveling to Parkview for Week 1 on Aug. 28 or hosting Camdenton for Week 2 on Sept. 4. West Plains will play Waynesville on Oct 16th.
