NCAA Division III championships in fall sports for 2020/21 are canceled.
With the health and safety of the division’s student-athletes, coaches, athletics administrators, and communities as its priority, the Division III Presidents Council made the decision to cancel the championships due COVID-19 and related administrative and financial challenges.
The Board of Governors directed each division to make a decision on its fall sports championships. It also agreed to require all members institutions to apply the resocialization principles to fall sports and set a 50 percent sponsorship threshold for a fall sports championship to be conducted.
“Looking at the health and safety challenges we face this fall during this unprecedented time, we had to make this tough decision to cancel championships for fall sports this academic year in the best interest of our student-athletes and member institutions,” said Tori Murden McClure, chair of the President’s Council and president of Spalding University, a private Catholic university in Louisville, KY.
“Our Championships Committee reviewed the financial and logistical ramifications if Division III fall sports championships were conducted in the spring and found it was logistically untenable and financially prohibitive. Our Management Council reached the same conclusion. Moving forward, we will try to maximize the championships experience for our winter and spring sport student-athletes, who unfortunately were short-changed last academic year,” said McClure.
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