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Free sports physicals for Haywood youth

Student athletes can get free sports physicals Tuesday, May 29 at the MedWest Health & Fitness Center on the campus of MedWest-Haywood.

More than 60 volunteers and 30 physicians and health care specialists will offer these free sports participation physicals for Haywood County middle and high public school students for the upcoming school year.

The sports physicals will be held at the following times:  

• 5:45 p.m. for Canton Middle School and Bethel Middle School students

• 6:30 p.m. for Pisgah High School students

• 7:15 p.m. for Waynesville Middle School, Bethel Christian Academy and Haywood Christian Academy

• 8 p.m. for Tuscola High School students

Health information packets will be available in the front offices of each school. These packets need to be filled out by parents prior to the physicals. Parental attendance during the physicals is needed in case there are health-related questions or findings by MedWest’s team of physicians and health care specialists.

828.452.8077.

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