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The NCAA announced on Friday that Division I student-athletes in all sports may participate in voluntary athletic activities on campuses beginning on June 1.
The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to reinstate on-campus activities with the current ban set to expire on May 31. The 40-person committee was widely expected to permit schools to allow voluntary workouts as stay-at-home orders have eased around the United States.
The voluntary workouts for student-athletes are to be held without coaches present. The committee was considering allowing student-athletes to return to the required training needed for each sport, which would allow coaches to attend, but opted against that at this time.
Voluntary athletics activities allowed in all Division I sports starting June 1: https://t.co/mFHQOder3w pic.twitter.com/aWpOKFJgdO
— Inside the NCAA (@InsidetheNCAA) May 22, 2020
Sports like football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball are among those that were hoping to move forward to allow training in June. Under guidelines for required training, student-athletes are permitted eight hours per week in the summer for activities.
With student-athletes set to return to campus, every player will be screened while school officials will sanitize equipment and limit workouts to smaller groups.
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