The majority of athletes in Michigan are forced to wear a mask while participating in an athletic game due to the virus. There are a lot of people who are bothered when wearing a mask while playing. 

Alex Wassel, a WMS seventh-grade basketball and baseball player, said, “I do right now because I feel safer but usually I would not if everything was normal.”

Cooper Buck, a WMS seventh-grade soccer player, said, “ It doesn’t really bother me personally but I know people who it does bother.”

 Tyler Regner, a WMS seventh-grade football and baseball player, said, “I do not like to wear a mask while playing sports because it can distract you and it makes it hard to breathe. It’s just not fun in general.”  Tyler added, “ I was doing a workout and I had to do ladder runs and I was running and I felt like I was gonna pass out because I was just breathing in all the air I just breathed out and I wasn’t getting enough fresh air.

Cooper, however, said, “It depends on the material if it’s thin, it’s fine, but if it’s a thick fabric it makes it harder to breathe.”