As the number of COVID-19 cases gradually heads downward and the winter, at least according to the calendar, is down to its final month, things appear increasingly positive for many high school athletes whose seasons were pushed back from the standard fall or winter seasons or whose spring seasons a year ago were lost.

On Feb. 19, New Jersey State Intersch0lastic Athletic Association Chief Operating Officer Colleen Maguire provided an update on several things during a video message posted to the…