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Gordon Nesbitt
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Gordon Nesbitt
How are schools dealing with taking temperatures?
Gordon Nesbitt
My email - gnesbitt@millersville.edu
Gordon Nesbitt
Does no travel include clubs like bowling?
Shadeed
VCU haven’t announced their plans yet. Varsity fall sports are cancelled.
Drew Devore
to make it easier on sharing info, share your info in the NIRSA Comp Sports Google Drive.
Drew Devore
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0AEwjsSoqCmSDUk9PVA
Jonathan Elliott
At Arkansas, we check temperatures for our student staff who work inside the facility, and users have to agree to an attestation form and complete a waiver (once) before coming inside to work out.
James Alexander
Loyola Chicago has cancelled all travel and competition. Looks like practices will be conditioning only, but no decision on that yet.
Jordan Mehl
Pete- You said no practices are allowed. I'm curious, is your school planning on having the rec/fitness center open still? what about Intramurals? Or are you all online?
Billy Willis
Gordon - you mention Bowling, the USBC cancelled all Fall Tournaments.
Jay Gallagher
@Jordan yes we are planning to have fitness facilities open following City and CDC guidelines. All intramurals will be virtual for Fall. Classes are not 100% online. (I'm also at Temple)
Jordan Mehl
Thank you!
Crystal Durham
is anyone making requirements/cancellation decisions on a club by club basis based on risk level? Or is it pretty much all or nothing for most institutions?
Landon Wolfe
@Crystal Durham - I am hoping to do club-by-club rather than some of these broad cancellations
Cindy Tse
Wondering if anyone has considered this: NCAA classified the following as high-risk sports (basketball, field hockey, football, ice hockey, rowing soccer, wrestling, rugby, squash, and water polo) and therefore must implement protocols to be able to even practice, which in Sport Club programs we can't do. see article:https://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/ncaa-offers-new-protocols-as-data-moves-in-wrong-direction.html?eid=106684664&bid=2661568
Jason James
club by club for now @ UGA
Jay Gallagher
For those following "athletics" guidelines are you under Athletics? We felt that we were not able to meet the "athletic standards" since we do not have FT coaches like Athletics to enforce rules.
Jonathan Elliott
Does anyone have requirements or best practices for non-affiliated volunteers to adhere to (i.e. coaches and instructors) pertaining to protocols, travel, attending practices, etc.?
Jonathan Elliott
Thank you!
Billy Willis
If everyone wouldn't mind - can you list your school/state when you speak?
Heather Kite - UNF
Right now my school (UNF) is requiring face masks to be worn by ALL - even outdoor locations. Does anyone have support for not wearing face masks during sport activities?
Jon Broska
Heather we are in the same boat at UF
Tom Giles- FIU
Same at FIU
Jon Broska
and if the club can't figure out how to use the space while wearing masks they can't practice
Jerrell Kelly - WKU
Heather, at WKU, we've been told that we can go without masks during activity specifically but any other time including transition or group discussion, etc, mask is required
Drew Devore
Here are the reopening considerations we put together for Comp Sports here at Minnesota. Since we submitted it we have cut down on IM offerings and put in more club restrictions, but we will be ready once we have more flexibility hopefuly in the spring
Drew Devore
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KANBdb8NEjboFv8HkuUOAfrdYQZzjVVzBcL14guqIzw/edit?usp=sharing
Jon Broska
you'd need to differentiate indoor vs. outdoor as well
Tom Giles- FIU
Florida International University- Masks required at ALL times when on campus (indoor and out)
Linda Knight
We are requiring mask for everything but water sports.
Nicholas D'Amato
@DrewDevore thanks for sharing!
Jami Brossette
LSUS Masks required, but take off when active, in and out
Jason Darby
At Southern Miss, we currently have our varsity basketball teams using our facility for practices (even though we aren’t allowing open rec on our end), and they aren’t required while practicing and conditioning, but while moving around the facility. We would likely try to same regulation for club practices is allowed
Jon Broska
with respect to the NCAA, student affairs professionals may not pay attention to what the Athletic department does. We also don't have the capability to control/monitor our participants the way the Athletics Department can
Philipp Leyerer
State of Illinois phase 4 guidelines requires to wear masks at all times, unless when exercising.
Drew Devore
are schools going to require a log of practice participants for each practice for contact tracing purposes?
Jay Gallagher
@Jon Broska agreed we were looking more at the youth sports guidelines for direction more than NCAA because we couldn't meet the ncaa standards
Charles Anderson - Ohio State
Right now at Ohio State mask will be required at all times included while working out.
Jason James
UGA masks are required inside or out when social distancing guidelines cannot be met.
Tom Giles- FIU
@ Drew- Yes at FIU
Cindy Wright
Thoughts on enforcement protocol?
Austin Sanderson
@Drew I am trying to work out the logistics of logging practice participants
Billy Willis
@Cindy - that's my greatest issue, Wright State (Dayton Oh), We do not have the staff or funding to be at every practice.
Kristen Sullivan - Penn State
@Drew we do it through IMLeagues at Penn State. You can log each practice into IMLeagues as a game, and they’d check off each participants’ name after each practice
Tom Giles- FIU
@ Kristen- is your staff the ones checking the athletes in?
Kristen Sullivan - Penn State
Not previously - it was solely officers. If we offer practices, we will have staff on-site, but more for COVID-19 policy enforcement
Pat Kennedy
Those institutions that have not canceled club sports, what is your anticipated / goal to have 100%, 80%, 50% club sport organization in person practices this Fall?
Philipp Leyerer
@SIUE, if we are allowed to practice we are thinking about making a requirement of all club teams logging their practices either via IMleagues or our athletic training app DragonFlyMax that we are currently using for our competitive club teams. All club members will have to sign an online health Questionnaire before practices and will have a questionnaire for travel requests (if we are allowed to travel in the fall or for the spring semester).
Hannah Burrichter
What are some ways you’re all trying to keep sport clubs engaged with the program if events/practices are cancelled?
Jay Gallagher
@Hannah That is the million dollar question...lots of trainings, trying to figure out the way to create the "fun."
Kristen Sullivan - Penn State
@Hannah we’ve had some success with trivia through intramurals, so we’re doing a Club Sports Trivia Night to try to engage them
Shadeed
@hannah, the NCDA is planning on doing videos of last year with the different dodgeball teams to keep them engaged.
Landon Wolfe
Agreed, maybe some sort of "club training/workout" competition?
Jon Broska
if your school also has athletic trainers, what about having your AT's work with a club to develop conditioning programs for each individual club?
Landon Wolfe
@Jon Broska, yes, and collaborating with our Fitness Program, give their class instructors a new opportunity
Hannah Burrichter
thank you!
Jay Gallagher
@Jon Broska or utilize your fitness professionals...this is our program Pete was talking about--https://campusrecreation.temple.edu/sport-club-summer-workout-series
Chris Muller
Virtual community service projects
Gordon Nesbitt
Any ideas for clubs to promote themselves to students on campus without being able to play/practice?
Steven Walton
At Creighton, those with more technical smarts than me, are creating an app for our clubs/organizations where they can swipe left or right on clubs/orgs that are interested in/not interested in.
Austin Sanderson
@Gordon we partnered with Admissions. We will be having a round table. New students if interested will complete a form of clubs they are interested. We will then use the break out feature on zoom to put all interested students in a room with the club leaders.
Philipp Leyerer
@Gordon, we told our clubs to create a promo video or powerpoint that we will post on our website and send to admissions for virtual orientations to help with promotion/exposure and recruitment
Megan Guilfoyle
Club Sports Cup - a list of things for clubs to do, zoom workouts, recipes to follow, virtual hangouts, etc. They earn points when posting these activities on social media. Teams with most points at end of quarter/year earn additional allocation. This gives them social media content to keep fans updated, and gives club members access to things they wouldn’t otherwise
Drew Devore
@philipp I like the encouragement of bolstering clubs promotion presence
Megan Guilfoyle
In addition to club sports cup…1-minute videos on website highlighting their sport, this can help with recruitment
Jonathan Elliott - Univ. of Arkansas
If anyone uses Engage, they just unveiled a Virtual Fair offering... could probably be useful for promoting a club sports fair (no, I don't know it works yet... they just rolled it out late last week I believe) :)
Jonathan Elliott - Univ. of Arkansas
Yep, awaiting Legal Counsel review and approval.
Austin Sanderson
At Wichita State all of our waivers are being updated with COVID-19 language
Billy Willis
We were told that we do not need to include COVID
Billy Willis
(wright State university - Dayton OH)
Chris Muller
I think a general waiver covers everything up to and including death
Philipp Leyerer
@SIUE we also want to add a section about covid to our waiver but has to hear back from risk management and the university legal team if we can
Alex Gebers
Utah Valley University did add additional language into our waivers with COVID
Jay Gallagher
For those practicing/playing who is covering additional costs of extra equipment, disinfecting supplies, travel, etc? I am assuming most don't have increased budgets for this year
Tom Giles- FIU
@ Jay - at FIU our operational budget will be covering the cleaning supply material
Shadeed
Any advice for safety guidelines for dodgeball clubs that used rubber dodgeballs over the full length of a basketball court? they’re playing 12 on 12.
Shadeed
from VCU
Allie Bogard
The liability waiver our Legal Counsel has approved for us: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCIYjRyV0uasZRv5t8GZldrVSRgcZyrntcSgOHdPc0Q/edit
Chelsea Watson
what products and policies to schools have in place for shared equipment used at practices?
Jon Broska
there have been more articles and consensus that the virus is not spread through the touching of shared items but through close contact between individuals. If you can show that documentation, you could possibly avoid the need to justify sports that share equipment
Drew Devore
@chelsea by products do you mean cleaning supplies?
Jerrell Kelly - WKU
for WKU, while our travel ban won't allow us to pay for any expenses related to actual travel costs, IF we travel, student-raised funds are still available to be used
Jon Broska
...and i am not a doctor so don't cite me as your reference hahahaha
Chelsea Watson
@Drew I really just mean policies. we have products through our facilities maintenance department
Jay Gallagher
Jon Broska, it would be nice if NGB's update their guidelines to reflect that change
Cindy Wright
in relation to Chelsea's question do you allow shared equipment such as frisbees, basketballs,
Jon Broska
in my eyes, I can't go to my bosses and say "well this NGB says we can play so we don't need to follow University guidelines"
Jon Broska
so i'm not waiting for NGB guidelines
Tom Giles- FIU
^^^^^^
Jon Broska
in some cases the NGB's are waiting for us
Bonnie Hainline
@Jon Broska you’re not wrong
Landon Wolfe
@Jon Broska, yes, that's my problem, NGBs are all asking us for what we are doing first
Pete Vincent
Here are a couple of the things that when into our decision to cancel the fall... Facility Space, Resources( Money), Safety, Travel, Commuting to campus.
Drew Devore
sandy sanderson provides great ngb guidance
Pete Vincent
Some of the facilities could become classrooms
Billy Willis
issues with ColClubSports in general
Chris Muller
August committal to the Spring is unreasonable given the pandemic
Bonnie Hainline
NCBA needs us more than we need them. Don’t cave to their “demands”
Jon Broska
NGB's are businesses....no offense but their guiding force is to play in order to avoid a shutdown
Jon Broska
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Crystal Durham - NAU
^^^^
Tom Giles- FIU
NGB Ambassador Form can be found on NIRSA connect! Super helpful to see where certain NBG's stand
Tom Giles- FIU
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IVfMHnHcE-eAVg4DwuobROJ-Oa6dX4-CSOBBHcqX-60/edit#gid=844526237
Bonnie Hainline
Just saying, if no one signs, they will have to move their deadlines
Jon Broska
Amen
Charles Anderson - Ohio State
I agree with Bonnie 100%
Dexter Shorter - Penn St.
Mission critical purchasing...
Kathryn Hutchings
Kathryn here - Santa Clara University - Budgets are frozen right now. I am also thinking about putting a cap on membership dues. Depend on if we are going to allow them to operate. Right now, Club Sports are suspended. We can roll over budgets so no worries about loosing funds.
Cindy Wright
Excellent- thank you.
Heather Kite - UNF
This has been helpful. Thanks!!
Kathryn Hutchings
than you
Jill Siegfried
this has been great - thank you all
Erin Sanders
Thank you all!
Chris Muller
Thank you!
Dexter Shorter - Penn St.
Thanks so much
Jay Gallagher
Thanks all
Jonathan Elliott - Univ. of Arkansas
Thx!
Jaron Rider
tank you
Alex Gebers
Thank you all!
Megan Guilfoyle
Thank you!
Hunter Hartley
Thank you everyone
Colton Scott
Thank you,
Austin Sanderson
Thank you everyone
Allie Bogard
Thanks y’all!
sylvain Tchaptchet
Thank you very much
Demetria Young
Thanks
Aaron Croce
Extremely helpful! Thank you!
Pete Vincent
Pete.vincent@temple.edu
Sheena Harvey
Thank you!
Amanda Bray
amanda.bray@usu.edu
Charles Anderson - Ohio State
thank you all and stay safe
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gnesbitt@millersville.edu
Valerie McCutchan
thanks
Samantha Wary
warys@cwu.edu