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ACC Says College Sports Will Happen This Fall...But Will That Stick?

Start dates for college sports are pushed back this year to keep students safe during the coronavirus pandemic. But conversations about potential outbreaks continue.
Start dates for college sports are pushed back this year to keep students safe during the coronavirus pandemic. But conversations about potential outbreaks continue.

The Atlantic Coast Conference Board of Directors voted to push back the start of their fall college sports to Sept. 10 and implement new rules to keep student athletes and coaching staff safe. But is that enough to prevent outbreaks?And if sports are canceled, what does that mean for the future of athletics departments — and for the student athletes?

Host Anita Rao talks with UNC Chapel Hill soccer player Rachel Jones and Raleigh News & Observer sports columnist Luke DeCock about the future of college athletics in North Carolina.Host Anita Rao talks with Luke DeCock, sports columnist for the News & Observer, about the future of college sports. Rachel Jones, a junior midfielder for women’s soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, shares how her team’s training has changed under coronavirus-related rules.

 

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Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
Josie Taris left her home in Fayetteville in 2014 to study journalism at Northwestern University. There, she took a class called Journalism of Empathy and found her passion in audio storytelling. She hopes every story she produces challenges the audience's preconceptions of the world. After spending the summer of 2018 working in communications for a Chicago nonprofit, she decided to come home to work for the station she grew up listening to. When she's not working, Josie is likely rooting for the Chicago Cubs or petting every dog she passes on the street.