March 21, 2021
Dear Hinsdale Central Families:
We are excited that sports have resumed at Hinsdale Central. We are wrapping up the winter sports season and have begun our spring sports season. While the IHSA has begun allowing spectators, the numbers are still limited. Given these continued restrictions, the Hinsdale Central Booster Club was able to secure a special offer through NFHS for us to watch our Hinsdale Central home sports events.
If you are interested in using this NFHS Network to watch sports this spring/summer, please follow the link below to join the Boosters Club. Hinsdale Central Boosters is a registered 501©3 charitable parent-run organization. The Club provides financial support to the arts, activities and athletics at Central through our annual grant programs. There are three levels of membership for the Booster Club. Once you join, please email me the snapshot of your membership receipt (with name, address, level of membership and order number) along with your request to access NFHS and I will assign you a key code and provide instructions. Turnaround time can vary so if you plan ahead, we can get you up and ready to view before your next sporting event.
This option is a complimentary benefit of a Booster membership this year, due to COVID and the inability to have full spectator participation. The membership is strictly for the 2020-2021 academic school year but given the uncertainty around “end dates” for the now labeled spring/summer sports, the membership will continue through our last school event for this academic year. Going forward, we will re-evaluate whether we want to continue to offer this to our membership as an add-on gift choice for the 2021-2022 seasons.
If you know of others that may wish to take advantage of this opportunity, please direct them to the Booster Club website to join Boosters. They can then contact me for an NFHS membership, following the same steps of providing their copy of membership status and request to access NFHS.
While I am stating that we, Hinsdale Central, are providing the streaming/recording of the home athletics, it is up to the host school for our away games to participate (or not) in the same NFHS network programming. If those schools do participate, your membership will allow streaming of those events as well. If they do not, there may be Facebook Live streaming with details provided by the team coach prior to the event.
Here is an update on current sports and spectator provisions:
IDPH Mitigations
Outdoor Venues- 20% capacity of each venue maximum
Indoor Venues- 50 spectators total maximum
(All spectators must maintain a minimum of 12ft. away from all playing surfaces & players.)
Hinsdale Central Sports Information
- All Stadium Events are on NFHS
Freshmen, Sophomore, JV and Varsity Football
Poms and Cheer performances during football games
JV and Varsity Soccer, Boys and Girls
Varsity Lacrosse, Boys and Girls
Track and Field All Levels, Boys and Girls, No field events
- All Main Gym events are on NFHS
Sophomore and Varsity Volleyball, Boys and Girls
All levels of Boys Gymnastics
All Levels of Wrestling
- All events in the pool are on NFHS
JV and Varsity Water Polo, Boys and Girls
- All other events not on NFHS will be on Facebook Live
- A few details about NFHS: the NFHS membership is good for one person/device at a time; please plan for your membership purchase and NFHS network access request to allow appropriate turnaround time to get your key code and establish your account.
Questions? Please reach out via email –
Suzanne Austin – suzanneaustin7@gmail.com
Hinsdale Central Booster Club Membership Chair