Fort Hays State head football coach Chris Brown is urging everyone to follow health and safety guidelines. Brown made the statement on his twitter account Monday.

It comes after a report from the Ellis County Health department showed a dramatic increase of COVID-19 cases since the return of students to the FHSU campus.

Brown's statement...

"These are very challenging times for so many people and we pray for those who have lost so much because of this virus. I urge everyone in our community to follow the necessary hygienic, masking and social distancing guidelines to help overcome this virus. The opportunity to have students back on campus and for our student-athletes to be able to work to improve to the best of their abilities is a privilege. This privilege is at risk if we cannot make the necessary sacrifices to keep everyone in our community safe."

"As a staff, we will continue to work to educate and hold our student-athletes accountable to those guidelines to ensure the safety of our athletes, university and our community. We will overcome the challenge of this virus together. We are facing very unique adversity but adversity can either bring you down or make you stronger. We will respond to this adversity and our student-athletes and coaching staff will come back stronger than ever."

"Be safe and Go Tigers"

Chris Brown
Head Coach
Fort Hays State Football

FHSU football coach urges everyone follow health and safety guidelines