The Ivy League will not have sports this fall due to concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an athlete on an Ivy team confirmed…
The Ivy League will not have sports this fall due to concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, an athlete on an Ivy team confirmed to USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday. That athlete requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of information. That athlete said team members had been told of the decision.
CBS Sports was the first to report that fall sports would not be played. Ivy League officials have been meeting Wednesday. A formal announcement could come Wednesday evening.
This affects football as well as men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, and women’s field hockey and volleyball.
CBS also said the league will have no winter sports before Jan. 1, which would include men’s and women’s basketball and hockey.
While the major conferences still hope to hold the season on time, it is worth remembering that in March the Ivy League’s decision to cancel its basketball tournaments proved prescient. Other leagues soon followed suit with the NCAA tournament eventually being canceled.
