Rules for Rink Return

What to expect at OBM

GUIDING PRINCIPLE ⚠️ 

Anyone (e.g., player, parent, sibling, coach, spectator)
with a risk factor or illness should not attend in-person trainings, 
ice sessions or any SYHC related events.

 COVID-19 — NEW & REVISED RULES:

• State issued social distance requirements will at times limit the number of people allowed on the ice at a time. This number can change based on context and on one activities as well in general as part of ongoing revisions to health orders and guidelines.
• You cant enter the building until 15 minutes before your scheduled ice time.
• Stretching should be completed outside before entering
• All the locker rooms will have doors propped open. Please leave your valuables in the car.
• No showers or use of the locker room bathrooms. These spaces are locked.
• No spitting or “clearing your nose” (in or out of the rink)
• There is absolutely NO FOOD allowed in the building.
• Players should keep a hockey stick distance between them and the nearest player while in the locker rooms.
• All players should bring their own labeled water bottle, and water bottles must not be shared.
• Entrance and exits for OBM are different allowing for a 1-way flow of traffic. Follow the exit and entrance signs posted in the rink. If it says exit only – and the entrance is blocked that means you are not able to enter. Please do not just walk around the sign.
• When on ice, the players that are waiting on the boards for a drill need to practice social distance a remain a stick length apart.
• The cafe will be open for gatorade, water and pre-packaged snacks, however the the grill will not be available.
• Vending machines will be open, and like all surfaces and touch-points, are cleaned every 2 hours
• Please limit one parent to player in the building; wear a mask; and remain 6 ft from other people.
• Players need to wear to enter and exit the building as well as when in the common areas. If is not advised to wear a mask during on-ice activities.
• Coaches and on-ice volunteers must wear a mask at all times.
• Before getting on the ice, coaches will read players a symptom and risk checklist and ask any player answering yes to any of the criteria to raise their hand. That person will then be excused from practice that day.
• If a player begins to feel ill during practice they should tell the nearest on-ice volunteer and immediately exit the building.
• Coaches will be responsible for requiring players exhibiting signs and symptoms of sickness to exit the ice.
• Players or immediate household members confirmed with COVID-19 are to notify the SYHC Registrar and self-quarantine.
• If players or their immediate household members travels to, or hosts persons from, a State with a positivity number of 15% or greater must self-quarantine for 14 days before returning to SYHC sponsored activities. As of the week of August 1st this includes:
  • From the Week of August 1
    • Florida
    • Alabama
    • Mississippi
    • South Carolina
    • Arizona
    • Kansas
    • Idaho
  • From the Week of July 22
    • Alabama
    • Arizona
    • Florida
    • Georgia
    • Idaho
    • Mississippi
    • Nevada
    • Puerto Rico
    • South Carolina
    • Texas