NCAA Releases Next Set of ‘Return to Sports’ Guidelines

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It is a step towards any possibility of seeing college sports this fall. Thursday afternoon, the NCAA released the next set of guidelines for the return to sports. The guidelines are the third set of recommendations released by the NCAA for returning to sports competition.

The NCAA Sport Science Institute states the guidelines are designed to inform schools in responding appropriately based on their specific circumstances and in the best interest of returning college athletes’ health and well-being. Among the recommendations:

–  Daily self-health checks.
–  The appropriate use of face coverings and social distancing during training,              competition and outside of athletics.
–  Testing strategies for all athletics activities, including pre-season, regular season      and post-season.
–  Testing and results within 72 hours of competition in high contact risk sports.

Officials did qualify the release of the latest guidelines by pointing out that “any recommendation on a pathway toward a safe return to sport will depend on the national trajectory of COVID-19 spread,” and that “the idea of sport resocialization is predicated on a scenario of reduced or flattened infection rates.”

The recommendations were developed in collaboration with the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine COVID-19 Working Group, Autonomy-5 Medical Advisory Group, National Medical Association, and NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports Prevention and Performance Subcommittee. The guidance also takes into consideration recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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