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Canadian universities are rolling out plans to restrict student access to campuses and increase online learning for the fall semester in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But what does that mean for the roughly 20,000 student-athletes at U Sport's 56 schools across Canada?Josiah Joseph is prepared to live a monk's life to quarterback the University of Calgary Dinos this year.
"If U of C is kind of shut down for the fall and we're in online courses, maybe we put the players in a residence, maybe sign contracts and restrict outside access to prevent the spread," Joseph mused. "Everyone's been impacted financially. What that is, I don't think we're aware yet," U Sports chief sport officer Lisette Johnson Stapley said.
The football schedule will be reduced from eight regular-season games to five. In other sports, schools will compete against others within their province or geographical area. "Our team is ready to defend the championship no matter how many games, or if we had to do it with flags on in a parking lot," he said."We kind of got word they were looking at doing in-province," she said."The main attraction of Canada West, why I chose UBC, is because of the 17 teams you get to play.
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