Ayinde Bankole is ready to play a bigger role for the Centaurs in his senior year. Last year, Bankole ran for 394 yds on 40 carries and caught 10 passes for 128 yards.
Junior Kylee Owens is ready to step up this next season as the team's go-to outside hitter.
As a junior last year Emari Pait caught 18 passes for 377 last season and ran for 76 yards on five carries. He is ready to make his mark this year for the Centaurs.
The coronavirus continues to dictate what's going to happen in sports and life in general and high school sports is no exception. The 2020-2021 season will turn to a different format because of COVID-19.
There will be no fall sports in 2020. Instead of three seasons of high school sports, fall, winter and spring, there will be only two seasons, fall and spring. The fall season will start in December instead of August and September, with the first games being played in December and January. Spring sports will start in February and March and finish in June.
Culver City Athletic Director Tom Salter is just happy that the student athletes at Culver City will have an opportunity to play. "I am glad we are going are going to play full schedules," said Salter during a telephone interview last Tuesday. "The Athletic Directors of the Pioneer, Ocean and Bay Leagues had a Zoom meeting last week and we redid all of the league schedules for the next two seasons. Now we are trying to finish the pre-season schedules."
The main problem with having two seasons instead of three is, which sport will the athletes play. "I think the difficult thing for the players is they are going to have to make tough decisions," said Salter. "Now that they have made three seasons into two it's going to be hard for some athletes to play two sports. For example girls' basketball and track and field will both be in the spring." In the past girls basketball was in the winter season and track and field was a spring sport.
"Another good example of how hard it's going to be for some athletes who play multiple sports is the best girl athlete in the school last year, Sierra Chabola played three sports for four years during the fall, winter and spring," said Salter. "Next season all three of those sports are in the same spring season but all least we are going to have a season."
Here is a breakdown of the seasons and the new league configurations.
2020-2021 FALL SPORTS
Boys/Girls Cross-Country
Field Hockey
11-Man Football
8-Man Football
Gymnastics
Traditional Competitive Cheer
Boys Volleyball
Girls Volleyball
Boys Water Polo
Girls Water Polo
2020-2021 SPRING SPORTS
Badminton
Baseball
Boys/Girls Basketball
Competitive Sport Cheer
Boys/Girls Golf
Boys/Girls Lacrosse
Boys/Girls Soccer
Softball
Boys/Girls Swimming/Diving
Boys Tennis
Girls Tennis
Boys/Girls Track and Field
Boys/Girls Wrestling
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