I taped this and watched last night....ALMOST didn't catch the very end which would have been TRAGIC, I tell you!!! Great tennis, and glad she is coming back!
Cal Men's Tennis stopped play due to COVID at the end of January and never played another match this season. There were some rumors (a Daily Cal article) about them starting back up a few weeks ago, but that match was then also canceled.
The COVID protocols were all designed to keep teams apart to limit any potential outbreak. So it's "good" that only men's tennis was impacted then and not the rest of the student-athletes. The entire team can come back and compete next year because everyone gets an extra year of eligibility. Due to HIPAA, the details of who got the disease, etc. are made available, although I think more info would probably be known when we preview the team next school year in the fall.
Cal Softball is the other team that's been impacted by COVID. They have canceled their last 10 games and counting. Hopefully, they will be able to play again before the season is over. You sometimes see a team cancel a weekend series but then can play the next week (like UCLA softball cancelling their trip to Berkeley a month ago), that's likely just losing players to quarantine after they have been exposed to someone who tested positive. A longer stoppage like this likely means that student-athlete(s) did get the disease, unfortunately.
Go Bears! Congratulations!
Great writeup Ruey! Go Bears!
According to the broadcast, senior Julia Rosenqvist will be back with the Bears next season.
Rain delay (in San Diego!?!?!) so the start has been pushed back to (maybe) around 2 PM PT https://twitter.com/Pac12Network/status/1386755510586675202
The new expected start time is now 3:30 PM PT...maybe the delay will somehow work in Cal's favor.
I taped this and watched last night....ALMOST didn't catch the very end which would have been TRAGIC, I tell you!!! Great tennis, and glad she is coming back!
Cal Men's Tennis stopped play due to COVID at the end of January and never played another match this season. There were some rumors (a Daily Cal article) about them starting back up a few weeks ago, but that match was then also canceled.
The COVID protocols were all designed to keep teams apart to limit any potential outbreak. So it's "good" that only men's tennis was impacted then and not the rest of the student-athletes. The entire team can come back and compete next year because everyone gets an extra year of eligibility. Due to HIPAA, the details of who got the disease, etc. are made available, although I think more info would probably be known when we preview the team next school year in the fall.
Cal Softball is the other team that's been impacted by COVID. They have canceled their last 10 games and counting. Hopefully, they will be able to play again before the season is over. You sometimes see a team cancel a weekend series but then can play the next week (like UCLA softball cancelling their trip to Berkeley a month ago), that's likely just losing players to quarantine after they have been exposed to someone who tested positive. A longer stoppage like this likely means that student-athlete(s) did get the disease, unfortunately.