The news means no WCU baseball, softball, swimming. In fact, since the last pandemic in 1918, the only seasons WCU missed was in 19 due to World War II. West Chester has fielded a football team every season for the last 65 years – until now. “The decision was made in the fall that if we weren’t inviting all of our students back to campus, that any population would not be given any special treatment – and athletes fall under that category.”Īs a result, high profile sports like Golden Rams football and basketball are in the same predicament as all of the others: the season is lost, and there really isn’t any way moving forward to make it up. “With the university’s announcement (Wednesday morning) that we are going to continue remote instruction, and that the policy and practices that were put into place for the fall semester are going to continue, that means that we will not be participating in any competitions for the remainder of the academic year,” said West Chester Athletic Director Terry Beattie.
We are just giving them time to digest it.”Īs first reported by the Daily Local News and later confirmed in a two sentence WCU release on its website, the announcement means that the entire slate of athletic competition for the 2020-21 academic year has now been cancelled for the school’s 22 varsity programs – one of the largest NCAA Division II programs in the nation. “We all just kind of stared at each other. “I cried through the whole Zoom meeting today with the team,” said WCU softball coach Diane Lokey. The fall season sports were already postponed in mid-July due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. But on Wednesday it became official: West Chester University is pulling the plug on the rest of its sports programs through the 2021 spring semester. It’s been a serious possibility for many months.
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