Commentary: High School Track Coach Fired After Going Scorched Earth on Decision To Force Masks on Competing Teen Athletes

In a pandering display of wokeness from yet another school attempting to get on culture’s good side, New Hampshire track and field coach Bradley Keyes was fired after he had his fill of leftist nonsensical policies.

Keyes told WBZ-TV he was informed that athletes attending Pembroke Academy in New Hampshire would be required to wear masks during most field events and all races throughout the upcoming spring season, based on guidelines set by the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association.

The outlet reported that in an April 3 blog post, the coach encouraged his readers to reach out to the school to combat the “senseless, irrational, cowardice b***s***” that threatened his student-athletes.

Keyes shared an email in the blog post that he reportedly sent to the school’s athletics director, Fred Vezina, writing, “I’ll come straight to the point. I will not put kids on the track and tell them to run any races while wearing masks.”

“I will not stand up in front of the kids and lie to them and tell them that these masks are doing anything worthwhile out in an open field with wind blowing and the sun shining,” the four-year coach added in the email.

His athletes told WBZ that they were concerned about their performance in the upcoming season with the new masking guidelines — as track and field events, of course, require an abundance of oxygen.

“It gets you really tired especially when it gets up to 80 degrees soon and it’s going to be really hard for us to keep doing what we live to do,” one track team member, David Testerman, said.

Keyes was at a loss to understand why masks were necessary for the wide-open outdoors.

“These insane policies are robbing kids of once in a lifetime opportunities for no valid reason other than irrational fears and going along with the sheep,” he wrote to the athletics director.