COVID-19 (coronavirus) impact on Women's Lacrosse

[laxorangebookworm]

Ivy League cancels M/W BB tournament

Ok, let me get this straight. They're going to cancel their ILT, but...they're going to send said regular season winner teams to the...wait for it...NCAAT, where there will be more exposure to people?

Logic, I hardly knew ye...

[Badlands]

So are these schools essentially leaving it up to the conferences to decide if there’s going to be a spring athletic season, unlike some of the D3 schools that just called off the seasons themselves?

[laxorangebookworm]

So are these schools essentially leaving it up to the conferences to decide if there’s going to be a spring athletic season, unlike some of the D3 schools that just called off the seasons themselves?

Sounds like it. Such a weird situation.

[Delco Transplant]

"Columbia spring sports teams will continue to compete in home contests as scheduled; however, attendance will be limited to essential staff. Parents/guardians, family, student and spirit groups, and general public shall be prohibited. Columbia Athletics will continue to cover events via ESPN+ and/or live statistical/social media feeds, pending the availability of technical personnel."

https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2020/3 ... pdate.aspx

[seacoaster]

From Bucknell (daughter has a very good friend there):

"Classes are cancelled Monday, March 16, through Wednesday, March 18, 2020, so that faculty and staff can plan for delivering remote educational activities. Classes will resume remotely on Thursday, March 19.

Students are instructed to move out of on-campus housing by 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. Students who feel they must remain on campus may complete an online petition form sent to them by Dean Amy Badal.

Division I athletes will be contacted by Athletic Director Jermaine Truax.

Campus will remain open and all staff and faculty should report as normal."

[Dr. Tact]

Loyola MD. has cancelled face to face instruction until April 1. I have heard, but cant confirm that UMD and Hop have done the same. Waiting for D to get out of practice to hear how that affects Lax.

At this moment in time (AFAIK), no cancellation of Lax activities at Loyola.

[NuttyRipper12]

Loyola MD. has cancelled face to face instruction until April 1. I have heard, but cant confirm that UMD and Hop have done the same. Waiting for D to get out of practice to hear how that affects Lax.

At this moment in time (AFAIK), no cancellation of Lax activities at Loyola.

Fingers crossed for you!

[NuttyRipper12]

https://usctrojans.com/news/2020/3/10/w ... celed.aspx

USC vs Stony cancelled

[seacoaster]

https://usctrojans.com/news/2020/3/10/w ... celed.aspx

USC vs Stony cancelled

Bummer. Can we assume that this will cascade? Must be really disappointing for the kids.

[urgettingwhatuaxed4]

Does anyone know how many 70-year-old smokers go to college or play college sports?

[Dr. Tact]

I have heard that Loyola is considering reduced attendance to its games. Not sure what that means yet.

[Bart]

Does anyone know how many 70-year-old smokers go to college or play college sports?

Age is but 1 factor. Other underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, other cardio vascular disease, diabetes ect......seem to play a larger role for the real severe cases. While there may be less incidence of these conditions among the students, what is the likely hood of faculty or staff having such conditions?

[Delco Transplant]

Middlebury has announced it is suspending all spring sports until further notice and Tufts just cancelled the rest of the regular season for their spring sports. https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... dule/56141

I realize that this is a D1 women's lacrosse forum but those schools are both in New England and Boston is one of the hardest hit areas in the US, with 70 cornonavirus cases related to single conference of the pharmaceutical company Biogen held in Boston at the end of February. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/health/c ... index.html

Obviously, there are a number of D1 women's and men's lacrosse teams in the greater Boston area.

[urgettingwhatuaxed4]

Does anyone know how many 70-year-old smokers go to college or play college sports?

Age is but 1 factor. Other underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, other cardio vascular disease, diabetes ect......seem to play a larger role for the real severe cases. While there may be less incidence of these conditions among the students, what is the likely hood of faculty or staff having such conditions?

What did we cancel for the over 61,000 people who died from the flu in the US last flu season?

[Bart]

Does anyone know how many 70-year-old smokers go to college or play college sports?

Age is but 1 factor. Other underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, other cardio vascular disease, diabetes ect......seem to play a larger role for the real severe cases. While there may be less incidence of these conditions among the students, what is the likely hood of faculty or staff having such conditions?

What did we cancel for the over 61,000 people who died from the flu in the US last flu season?

Good question that I have no answer to with certainty. I would imagine there were isolated closures of schools and what not but that is pure speculation.

What I do know is that this is not the flu. It is highly contagious and the literature suggests you can be infected by people who are asymptomatic. As for the flu, we have a better understanding of the flu, it is not "new" to us. We see that average flu seasons has a mortality rate around 0.1% while COVID-19 is running in a best case scenario of 0.5%. Does not seem like much but it will depend on what the denominator is wont it? This thing spreads quicky, how many cases were there last week in the US? We now have over 1000. Italy was doing just fine until a week ago and how many cases are there now? It all depends on the denominator and there are epidemiologists who paint a picture with a large denominator.

It will be interesting to see what happens in China now that the social distancing rules are being relaxed and people are beginning to move about the country. If we see it flare up again, as several epidemiologists expect, the question becomes what now?

Are we overreacting? I have no idea. Should we cancel games, classes ect? Good question. I certainly hope not but I can understand why if colleges decide to go that route.

[seacoaster]

Does anyone know how many 70-year-old smokers go to college or play college sports?

Age is but 1 factor. Other underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, other cardio vascular disease, diabetes ect......seem to play a larger role for the real severe cases. While there may be less incidence of these conditions among the students, what is the likely hood of faculty or staff having such conditions?

What did we cancel for the over 61,000 people who died from the flu in the US last flu season?

The colleges are facing difficult choices, in which it is best to err on the side of safety, not only for their own specific populations, but for the communities in which they reside. It is not about whether 70 year old men and women play college sports, and not about how we've dealt with regular flu in the past; it is about the exceptionally high rate of infection from this virus crossing the globe now and the virus reaching into communities in which it can still be abated. We are, umm, all in this together. And college sports and commencements are a small price to pay to stave off further social, health and economic dislocation and disruption.

[ProudPapa]

Decisions around the NCAA basketball tournament are tough...decisions about non-revenue sports are not. The risks far outweigh the rewards. I wouldn't make non-refundable travel plans for Memorial Day weekend.

[Lax247]

Does anyone know how many 70-year-old smokers go to college or play college sports?

Age is but 1 factor. Other underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, other cardio vascular disease, diabetes ect......seem to play a larger role for the real severe cases. While there may be less incidence of these conditions among the students, what is the likely hood of faculty or staff having such conditions?

What did we cancel for the over 61,000 people who died from the flu in the US last flu season?

The colleges are facing difficult choices, in which it is best to err on the side of safety, not only for their own specific populations, but for the communities in which they reside. It is not about whether 70 year old men and women play college sports, and not about how we've dealt with regular flu in the past; it is about the exceptionally high rate of infection from this virus crossing the globe now and the virus reaching into communities in which it can still be abated. We are, umm, all in this together. And college sports and commencements are a small price to pay to stave off further social, health and economic dislocation and disruption.

Yes it’s a difficult choice. But let’s not pretend universities are worried about student and Professor health more than potential litigation and lawsuits if they don't cancel/close

[laxorangebookworm]

Here's the problem with shutting everything down. We're a service economy, we've been that way for a few decades now. We don't have much manufacturing (particularly in the area of antibiotics because we thought it was a GREAT idea to send all of that over to China) so we don't actually produce things. We're not an agrarian society anymore so we can't just hunker down on our farms and rely on subsistence farming for our food. But yeah, let's tank the economy because of a relatively mild virus that has not even remotely closely had the actual impact that the flu has. People are going full herd mentality with this thing and not actually thinking. We're human beings with reasoning capabilities. As far as I know, we're the only species on the planet with that ability. Let's start using that and not giving in to pure animal reaction instinct.

[Nigel]

Middlebury has announced it is suspending all spring sports until further notice and Tufts just cancelled the rest of the regular season for their spring sports. https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... dule/56141.

In other news, alcohol and funnel sales around each respective school expected to jump...