"The NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group has updated its recommendations for COVID-19 testing for college sports, noting fully vaccinated student-athletes and other Tier 1 individuals with no COVID-19-like symptoms may be exempt from routine testing.
Tier 1 individuals are those with the highest risk of exposure at championships and include team travel parties and officials. Student-athletes and other Tier 1 participants who are not vaccinated must continue to undergo testing at NCAA championships.
This new policy will be effective starting May 1 for NCAA Championships that have not started, or the next round of competition for those championships that are already underway.
If there is evidence of substantial or high transmission in the community, or if there are COVID-19 variants that escape the effect of the vaccine, then testing may need to resume for fully vaccinated individuals. Such decisions will be made in conjunction with local public health authorities and/or federal guidance."
>> The Big Picture: "Further, fully vaccinated student-athletes and other Tier 1 individuals with no COVID-19-like symptoms do not need to quarantine, be restricted from work or get tested after exposure to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. The updated testing guidance also applies to Tier 2 and 3 individuals who may be subject to testing protocols at member schools and championships. Tier 2 individuals are considered at moderate risk to exposure and may include administrators, security, event staff and league staff. Tier 3 individuals make up the lowest tier of risk to exposure and may include housekeeping, catering, sanitation, transportation, media and broadcast workers."
>> Reality Check: "As the logistics of differentiating vaccinated from nonvaccinated individuals at events remains challenging, the NCAA will continue its policy of universal masking and physical distancing for championships with the exception of student-athletes and officials during competition or practice."
The championship fields for women's lacrosse and men's and women's golf will be announced on Monday. Here is what to you need to know.
Lacrosse (W) Field Size (37 teams) - 33 AQ, 1 Pool B, 3 Pool C Who's In: Notre Dame, Md. (CSAC), George Fox (NWC), Rhodes (SAA)
Championship Games
Atlantic East: Cabrini vs. Marymount
Centennial: #1 F&M vs. #5 Gettysburg
C2C: #4 Salisbury vs. #20 Christopher Newport
CCIW: Carroll vs. Chicago
CCC: Endicott vs. Roger Williams
GNAC: Emmanuel vs. Johnson and Wales
HCAC: Hanover vs. Transylvania
Landmark: #6 Catholic vs. Scranton
Liberty: #7 Ithaca vs. #19 William Smith
Little East: Plymouth State vs. Western Connecticut
MAC Commonwealth: #12 Messiah vs. #13 York
MAC Freedom: FDU Florham vs. Stevens
MASCAC: Framingham vs. Westfield
Michigan: Saint Mary's vs. Hope
MWLC: Hamline vs. Northwestern
NECC: Becker vs. Elms
NESCAC: #3 Tufts vs. #11 Wesleyan
NEWMAC: Babson vs. Springfield
NJAC: #15 TCNJ vs. #23 Montclair State
NAC: Cazenovia vs. Husson
NCAC: #9 Denison vs. Wooster
NEAC: Lancaster Bible vs. Morrisville State
NACC: Aurora vs. Concordia Chicago
Ohio: John Carroll vs. Mount Union
Presidents: Thiel vs. Washington & Jefferson
Skyline: Farmingdale State vs Merchant Marine
SUNYAC: #14 Brockport vs. #17 Cortland
USA South: Meredith vs. Piedmont
Semifinals (Fri.), Final (Sun.) - Empire 8, ODAC
Golf (W) Field Size (25 teams) - 22 AQ, 1 Pool B, 2 Pool C, 6 individuals Who's In: Dubuque (American Rivers), #8 Texas-Dallas (ASC), Marymount (Centennial), #16 Illinois Wesleyan (CCIW), Rose-Hulman (HCAC), Catholic (Landmark), #25 Saint Mary's (Michigan), #5 George Fox (Northwest), #12 W&L (ODAC), Westminster (Presidents), #3 Centre (SAA), #1 Redlands (SCIAC)
Ranked Teams Looking for Pool B Bid: #2 Methodist, #4 Carnegie Mellon, #9 UC Santa Cruz, #10 Emory Ranked Teams Looking for Pool C Bid: #7 Mary Hardin-Baylor, #14 Rhodes, #15 Cal Lutheran, #17 Berry, #18 Chapman
Golf (M) Field Size (37 teams) - 31 AQ, 3 Pool B, 3 Pool C Who's In: PSU Behrend (AMCC), #18 Mary Hardin-Baylor (ASC), F&M (Centennial), Rosemont (CSAC), Western New England (CCC), Utica (Empire 8), Albertus Magnus (GNAC), York (MAC Commonwealth), Stevens (MAC Freedom), #25 Aurora (NACC), Penn College (NEAC), Whitworth (NWC), #1 Guilford (ODAC), Westminster (Presidents), Sewanee (SAA), Chapman (SCIAC), Webster (SLIAC), #6 Piedmont (USA South)
Ranked Teams Looking for Pool B Bid: #4 Emory, #7 Carnegie Mellon, #8 Trinity (Texas), #16 Christopher Newport Ranked Teams Looking for Pool C Bid: #2 Methodist, #3 Huntingdon, #9 W&L, #10 Pfeiffer, #11 Greensboro, #13 McMurry, #14 Averett, #15 LaGrange
As colleges look toward the fall-2021 semester, they’re grappling with whether to require — or just strongly encourage — students to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Here’s a chart of institutions that have decided to issue blanket vaccination requirements of all students, students living on campus, and/or employees.
California: Caltech, Claremont-M-S, Pomona-Pitzer
Colorado: Colorado College
Connecticut: Wesleyan
DC: Trinity Washington
Georgia: Emory
Indiana: DePauw, Saint Mary's
Iowa: Grinnell
Massachusetts: Amherst, Brandeis, Bridgewater State, Emerson, Fitchburg State, Framingham State, Lasell, MCLA, Massachusetts Maritime, Mount Holyoke, Salem State, Smith, Tufts, Westfield State, Williams, Worcester State
Maine: Bowdoin
Maryland: Johns Hopkins, Salisbury
Minnesota: Carleton, Macalester
Missouri: Washington U.
New Jersey: Drew, Fairleigh Dickinson, Montclair Sate, NJCU, Rutgers, Stevens
New York: Hamilton, Ithaca, Manhattanville, NYU, Rensselaer, Rochester, Sarah Lawrence, Vassar
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