The conference’s university presidents made the decision to cancel all fall sports – including soccer and volleyball – and explore making them up in the spring season.
The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league competing at college football’s highest level to cancel its fall season because of concerns. “I’m heartbroken we are in this place,” MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said. With the MAC’s 12 schools facing a significant financial burden by trying to maintain costly coronavirus protocols, the conference’s university presidents made the decision to cancel all fall sports — including soccer and volleyball — and explore making them up in the spring season. But Steinbrecher stressed this was first a decision about the health and well-being of the athletes, and the conference’s medical experts were not comfortable that sports could be run safely.
