SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - The impact of the budget override vote continued Wednesday in South Hadley, with students and families now coming to grips with the possibility of a school year without sports, and with other programs on the chopping block, including AP classes and extracurriculars.

The fallout continued in South Hadley, and athletes and their parents are coming to grips with a school year without sports.

After a walk out last week, South Hadley students tried to contend with the sudden reality, the loss of athletic teams, AP classes, and other extracurricular activities.

Like Kate Phillips, a junior girls basketball player, who is touring colleges with her mother this week, and said that it’s been hard to deal with the fact that South Hadley won’t have a team for her senior season, “I think everything that’s been told to us so far is that we’ll have no sports next year. So, for everybody who’s been playing the sport that they love their whole life, that means no senior nights. For a lot of us, we’re working towards thousand-point goals, hundred-point goals, anything like that. And we’re not going to be able to accomplish that.”

Phillips and her team won the Division 4 State Championship last year, but even off the court, Phillips said that she and her classmates are losing some of their favorite teachers, and the arts programs like theater and music, “it’s sort of everything that we’ve loved about South Hadley, our community, is all of a sudden being ripped away in the most important year for a lot of us.”

As much as the loss of athletics hurt, it went beyond that for those trying to position themselves for the next step in their education, “every single college, we’re on college seven today, has said, extracurricular activities, AP classes, music, arts, highlight yourself when you apply to college. And we have yet to meet anybody else, and we’ve met hundreds of people who are potentially going to a high school next year that will have nothing,” Phillips said.

The town held a meeting last night to hear from parents that were concerned over the impact of the budget vote, like Mark Zraunig who led the “Save South Hadley” movement that was in favor of the override. He told Western Mass News that the decision would have a huge impact not just athletes, but the entire student body. No drama, no band, no music. It will drive students and families out of this town. My hope us that the community can come together and fix this problem,”

The town is holding a select board meeting on May 5th, where they will decide on a new potential vote on the town’s budget.