STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers’ executive order Friday closing all public and private schools also suspends all school spring sports activities extending from Wednesday until April 6.

The executive order is to prevent, suppress and control the potential spread of the disease COVID-19.

Consistent with Evers’ announcement Friday, all school training, practices, scrimmages and contests are suspended. In addition, schools and coaches may not bring students together or be involved with students during this time period for any extracurricular or athletic purposes, which includes practices and other instructional/organizational purposes.

Coaches may provide individual workouts virtually but can’t encourage or organize their team assembling to practice.

For more details, the WIAA has updated its athletic participation limitations on the Infectious Disease option on its Health web page, https://www.wiaawi.org/Health/Infectious-Disease.

To read the executive order, go to https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/EO/SignedSchoolClosure.pdf.