Ivy League Cancels Sports Until 2021 Due to COVID-19

The Ivy League has canceled all sports including football for the fall semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The President of the Ivy League Council said there would not be any sports this fall semester.

About the Ivy League.

The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference. Eight private universities of the Northeastern United States are under the league. The University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Cornell University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University are members of the Ivy League. It is one of the most popular universities throughout the globe. All the eight-universities that the Ivy League includes rank top in the World Report national undergraduate university rankings.

The Ivy League Canceling Fall Semester Sports.

The Ivy League’s member universities are the ones that are considered the pillars of the college athletics, which has come forward with this staunch stance of calling off all the sports including football until 2021 in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jabbed by the state politicians, and the alumni most athletic conferences are preparing for beginning sports in September, the Ivy League is the only first Division I athletic conference to have postponed all sports for the fall semester. And, a number of other lower-division athlete conferences have already opted-out including Division III Centennial Conference and other schools in Maryland & Pennsylvania.

With this, it is evident that whether and how the spring and winter sports or when the fall sports will be played — will all be decided at a later date given the incessantly increasing COVID-19 tension. The league officials have indicated that the student-athletes training will happen with strict implementation of the state regulations & safety measures as required. This major step taken by the Ivy League, which includes some top universities will definitely show up implications on other athlete conferences. Like what happened in March with the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. All the lower division athlete conferences followed the Ivy League after it canceled its basketball tournaments for its women and men athletes.

The league’s Stance on the cancellation of fall-Semester Sports.

The Ivy League, the top college athletic conference that includes eight of the top universities include Yale Universities, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth College, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University is not confident about competing before the fall semester. It is not confident about making sports happen for real given the strict social distancing norms and travel restrictions.

The league has been maintaining since this announcement surfaced in, the practices and training would continue given the government guidelines along with the individual university rules are taken care of properly. It has also said there will be separate guidelines for resuming such practice & training activities which will begin only in a phased manner.

The league released a statement which reads, “With the information available to us today regarding the continued spread of the virus, we simply do not believe we can create and maintain an environment for an intercollegiate athletic competition that meets our requirements for safety and acceptable levels of risk, consistent with the policies that each of our schools is adopting as a part of its reopening plans this fall.”