MEC Pushes Fall Sports to Spring
Suggestions become rules, impacts are considered, and another collegiate sports conference pushes its fall sports to the spring. That was the case Thursday when the Mountain East Conference’s Board of Directors announced a number of decisions, chief of which was the postponement of fall sports to Spring 2021. “I pledged to our board, administrators, athletics staffs, and most importantly to our student-athletes that we would exhaust every opportunity to stage competition this fall, and I am confident that is collectively what we have done within the MEC,” said Commissioner Reid Amos. “Present public health challenges, combined with the new mandates put forth by the NCAA last week, create too great of a challenge on too short of a timeline to be able to conduct meaningful competition for our fall sports.” Others moves approved by the board include: Suspend competition for winter sports until no earlier than November 1, 2020.Suspend all competition in all sports indefinitely, with MEC board review by no later than Oct. 15, 2020.Suspend the indoor track and field championship for the 2020-21 season.All countable athletically related activities (CARA), excluding the restrictions regarding outside competition, for all MEC sports are permissible (as allowed under NCAA rules and Board of Governors requirements) at the discretion of each MEC member institution. Read the full article