Elementary schools consider winter sports

Clancy and Montana City Schools plan to move forward with winter sports, but Boulder Elementary School may opt for intramural boys basketball due to low student participation.

While Montana City passed the motion to start the basketball season on Jan. 2 with little fanfare, the Clancy meeting was more divided, with COVID-19 concerns front and center. 

Clancy athletic director and teacher Ryan Fetherston, as well as a group of parents in attendance, championed the sports program as a way to improve students’ mental and physical health. Board member Carrie Lindsay also called for allowing the basketball season to proceed. “My eight grader has had everything taken from her,” Lindsay said tearfully as she voiced support for allowing students some sense of normalcy.