{"id":3026,"date":"2020-08-12T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/2020\/08\/12\/umass-cancels-2020-descend-soccer-as-covid-19-casts-shadow-on-college-season\/"},"modified":"2020-08-12T00:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T00:09:27","slug":"umass-cancels-2020-descend-soccer-as-covid-19-casts-shadow-on-college-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/umass-cancels-2020-descend-soccer-as-covid-19-casts-shadow-on-college-season\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass cancels 2020 descend soccer, as COVID-19 casts shadow on college season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The Faculty of Massachusetts canceled its 2020 soccer season on Tuesday, citing the COVID-19 outbreak, nonetheless left launch the possibility of competitors later throughout the tutorial calendar. <\/p>\n<p>The Division-I school, which performs as an self enough, stated it supposed to non-public a \u201caggressive schedule for our descend sports activities throughout the spring semester\u201d and that members throughout the soccer program would stay enrolled fulltime \u201ceach shut to or in-person.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe persevering with challenges surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic posed too grand of a chance, and we reached the conclusion that making an attempt to play a season must no longer acquire positioned the members of our program throughout the most secure drawl that that you just simply could maybe properly maybe take into accounts,\u201d Faculty of Massachusetts Athletic Director Ryan Bamford stated in a written commentary. <\/p>\n<p>The Amherst, Massachusetts, school stated that soccer pupil-athletes have been on campus since slack June for group actions, with one certain COVID-19 case reported out of bigger than 600 assessments taken over seven weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Walt Bell referred to as the recordsdata \u201cdevastating.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fully heartbroken for our players, our quaint players, our alumni and our UMass Soccer neighborhood,\u201d Bell stated. \u201cOur job as coaches and mentors is to execute alternate options for our players, and enact each little factor in our power to not spend them away.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The announcement adopted various opinions that the  U.S. school sports activities\u2019 \u201cVitality 5\u201d conferences, comprised of the nation\u2019s high soccer applications, had met to concentrate on in regards to the viability of a 2020 season. <\/p>\n<p>The Ivy League stated final month that intercollegiate sports activities would not resume throughout the descend semester, and the Faculty of Connecticut stated final week it turned as soon as canceling \u201call competitors for the 2020-21 school 12 months\u201d for its soccer program. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has referred to as for the faculty soccer season to modify ahead as scheduled.  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Reporting by Amy Tennery; Enhancing by Howard Goller<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-ncaa-idUSKCN257299\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read Extra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The University of Massachusetts canceled its 2020 football season on Tuesday, citing the COVID-19 outbreak, but left open the possibility of competition later in the academic calendar. 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