NCAC, Home of Kenyon & Denison, to Cancel Conference Championships For Winter Sports

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The North Coast Athletic Conference, home of Division III swimming powers Kenyon & Denison, has announced it has cancelled conference championships for winter sports, as well as conference play. Institutions may make individual decisions regarding outside competition during the winter season, according to a release sent out by the conference. Many students will not be returning to their schools for the spring semester until late January or early February.

The nine institutions in the NCAC will not return student-athletes to campus for practices or other athletically related activity between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.

From the release:

The NCAC will continue to explore all options and plan for a safe return to intercollegiate competition, with the health and well-being of students, faculty, staff, and our broader communities our foremost concern. As the pandemic evolves, we will continue to monitor changing federal, state, and local guidance, and we will consult with each other as well as public health authorities and the NCAA as we plan for our eventual return to conference competition.

The NCAC is the second Division III conference to cancel its winter sports season, after the NESCAC on the east coast did the same thing earlier this week.

North Coast Athletic Conference members:

Allegheny
Denison
DePauw
Hiram
Kenyon
Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan
Wabash
Wittenberg
Wooster

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Kris Kohl

3 years ago

We’ve become a ‘throw-your-hands-up and give up’ society. What a shame. They could hold the championships responsibly if they wanted to. So much for America exceptionalism.

Julie Tellier

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

I have been looking for the words, “give up society”. You have it described it perfectly. What happened to “never give up” or “where there is a will there is a way”. This pandemic has made us weak and lazy

Maddie Taylor

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

Julie Tellier this pandemic is real and still happening and we cannot ignore that. we still do not know the long term effects and people are trying to keep healthy athletes safe and make a way for them to compete safely!!!! it’s not “giving up” it’s called being responsible and safe…

Greg Simmon

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

Maddie Taylor ??

Jessica Bauer

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

Maddie Taylor there’s a way to do it safely. Club teams have been doing so for months with no issues.

Irene Robins Viola

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

Maddie Taylor How is canceling the meet “making a way for them to do it safely” College football is being played, there is a march on Washington today, people are flying all over the country elbow to elbow, they can certainly find a way for swimmers to swim safely.

Julie Tellier

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

Maddie Taylor to my point!! As you say-Make a way for them to compete safety. What is that way? Society is too comfortable doing nothing to think of a way or just gave up trying.

Jim Venn

3 years ago

Reply to Kris Kohl

Kris Kohl Agreed 100%. Complete bullshit.

Andy Gallion

3 years ago

This is BS to throw in the towel right now. Zero courage or commitment. Why can’t they have the conference meet in April?

Lisa Reinke Hyde

3 years ago

Reply to Andy Gallion

Andy Gallion , yeah literally, why decide now?

They train year around anyway, so pretty much pick any month you’d like to hold it and actually try to do it!

Andy Gallion

3 years ago

Reply to Andy Gallion

Lisa Reinke Hyde exactly. Plenty of time. My son swims in the PSAC who is planning to have a champs meet in April. No need to pull the plug now.

Lisa Reinke Hyde

3 years ago

Reply to Andy Gallion

Andy Gallion Great- very glad for your son!

Doug Schack

3 years ago

No sense of risk versus reward. Letting that be defined for us.

Ryan Connell

3 years ago

One year to flatten the curve!

Joseph Glenn

3 years ago

Gutless

Michele Snyder-Willis

3 years ago

So it’s ok to have football games this fall with all that contact but no swimming with literally zero contact

Andy Gallion

3 years ago

Reply to Michele Snyder-Willis

Michele Snyder-Willis swimming is very low risk. This is ridiculous.

Lori Goldberg Mennitt

3 years ago

Reply to Michele Snyder-Willis

Michele Snyder-Willis this whole thing makes no sense to me. Harming our kids across the board.

Dennis Page

3 years ago

This is total BS….who ever is in charge needs to be replaced!

Charlene Tallen

3 years ago

Thanks for the memories. We will surely miss our friends at the pool. Tigers never quit ?DPU

Katy Bateman Brown

3 years ago

Terrible. These swimmers keep getting walls put up in front of them ? soccer…sure! Football…sure! Volleyball…sure! Swimming….nope. Why??

John Piatt

3 years ago

Reply to Katy Bateman Brown

Katy Bateman Brown ?

Lisa Bendall

3 years ago

Absolutely ridiculous. The NCAA deems football safe to play, which has far more close contacting than swimming. So unfair for the athletes

Devin Rummelhoff

3 years ago

Reply to Lisa Bendall

Lisa Bendall …don’t even get me started with these “guidelines”, “non-standards”. I just want some damn consistency. It’s Like a damn guessing game every event we go to.

Lisa Bendall

3 years ago

Reply to Lisa Bendall

Devin Rummelhoff exactly. My children are swimming at the their club under strict rules and have had two successful intersquad meets. No parents allowed, but can watch on Facebook live. It can work if people try hard enough and use common sense

Devin Rummelhoff

3 years ago

Reply to Lisa Bendall

Hockey games are hit or miss here. One rink is this, other is that. Had one rink where parents couldn’t even stay in the parking lot!

Devin Rummelhoff

3 years ago

Reply to Lisa Bendall

We’ve got rinks that require a waiver signed to be signed online within 12hrs of game time. No earlier.

Lisa Bendall

3 years ago

Reply to Lisa Bendall

Devin Rummelhoff yikes

Joe Gerzema

3 years ago

Boo & dumb. Let the swim if they want to.

Ryley Pearson

3 years ago

So many of these decisions are so rushed and haphazard, with zero thought towards how it affects these athletes mentally. Being a swimmer back in the day I couldn’t imagine preparing for a meet all year only to have it pulled from under me

Lisa Greenberg

3 years ago

Reply to Ryley Pearson

Ryley Pearson Agree. There is no reason not to hold their conference championships.

Laura Steward

3 years ago

Personally I’m glad. The season is a bust…no real meets, training and pool access has been completely off for so many kids. Why waste an eligibility year for a few “virtual dual” meets.

Evelyne Diedre Gilbert

3 years ago

Reply to Laura Steward

Laura Steward sadly most of these kids will not get this year back. I know my son is. D3 swimmer. Parents cannot afford to pay tuition for another year, and academic scholarships are lost if they take a “ gap” year. My son will sadly only swim 3 years in college.. for what? A virus that 99% are fine from and one that the D1 swimmers will still have a season for??

Andy Gallion

3 years ago

Reply to Laura Steward

Evelyne Diedre Gilbert same situation here with a two sport athlete (swimming/polo) with academic and athletic scholarships. Why pay another year when he can graduate with an ME degree and make big $$$?

Laura Steward

3 years ago

Reply to Laura Steward

My point was that unlike a lot of other sports…they aren’t getting to practice or have anything that resembles a season. ?

Evelyne Diedre Gilbert

3 years ago

Reply to Laura Steward

Your right! It’s very sad?

Tony Trefoil

3 years ago

Idk but….I bet some of you people on here don’t believe in vaccinations either. JS

Thomas Richner

3 years ago

What a shame- there are ways they could have made this happen. Maybe it didn’t look exactly like it has in years past, but don’t believe it needed to be canceled. With NCAAs still scheduled, what are their plans? Couldn’t NCAA offer some guidance for qualifying meet?

Andy Gallion

3 years ago

Ridiculous to pull the plug at this point. Show some courage and commitment.