Cross Country 2020???

Nope

CoachB wrote:

Nope

Same.

I just don't see how we can go from EVERYTHING being shut down to jumping back into the fall like nothing has happened.

Yes. There is a lot of panic and fear now, but we will get a handle on this thing and get life back to normal. This too shall pass. For right now, some areas like NYC are being hit hard and it impacts people's immediate perspectives.

Keep in mind the numbers we are seeing now are a fraction of the annual Flu deaths and a fraction of the Swine Flu episode. I'll be most people don't remember the swine Flu now, Google it. We have choose to deal with this virus in a more aggressive way and it is disruptive.

This situation certainty sucks for seniors to go out like this. It really sucks for people that have been training for a decade for an Olympic shot and now not sure how they can fund training to hang in for one more year of peak training .

Peace my friend. I hope and expect you'll be racing in the fall.

I’m willing to bet Fall XC will be cancelled.

If it is cancelled, that will be really tough. Like really really bad. Don’t know what I’ll do if my junior year track and senior year XC get cancelled. Just prayin God’s got me

Yes, but some schools like Colombia from high-risk areas will definitely be excluded from participation (same with NYC high school's). The problem will get manageable in the US, but NYC will probably never be the same again and might become totally isolated from the rest.

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

Yes, but some schools like Colombia from high-risk areas will definitely be excluded from participation (same with NYC high school's). The problem will get manageable in the US, but NYC will probably never be the same again and might become totally isolated from the rest.

That's what people were saying after the 9/11 tragedy as well.

This Too Shall Pass.

It will depend on the state.

Here in CA I've heard the peak is forecasted for about May 5th. How bad that peak is will probably determine how severe the response is. It's possible the season could be cancelled. It's possible only summer training would not be allowed as a team, but the season could still be run. Who knows at this point.

There hasn't been a good XC race since 2008 anyway. Nobody cares

merrygent wrote:

LateRunnerPhil wrote:

Yes, but some schools like Colombia from high-risk areas will definitely be excluded from participation (same with NYC high school's). The problem will get manageable in the US, but NYC will probably never be the same again and might become totally isolated from the rest.

That's what people were saying after the 9/11 tragedy as well.

This Too Shall Pass.

9/11 was different. We canceled one xc race to show respect. It had nothing to do with safety. The following week was business as usual. This is different and likely won’t be business as usual until 2022.

Spring sports are one thing. Fall sports are another. The differentiator? Football. No way this country goes without football.

It all depends on how severe the second wave is. The chance that cross country starts and gets cancelled I think is high. This will be area dependent but I would bet that some proactive states don't start school as usual in the fall and some states will end up cancelling later. Unlikely we see any state champions crowned.

The only way this is getting back to normal is a vaccine. Everything will continue to be cancelled until that happens.

The potential 14 day lead time to symptoms all the while you’re contagious is the biggest problem m. No one should be willing to risk that.

I believe college football will be cancelled because college will be cancelled. If you’re the head of Texas A&M where there are 70k enrolled students no way you’re taking a chance opening up the campus.

Maybe the NFL plays with no fans but if one player has it then the both teams will be quarantined. You’ll be seeing teams have to forfeit games.

People still aren’t thinking long term enough about COVID-19. Social distancing is helping but it can’t eradicate it. People in the US are very stubborn and on average very dumb which is a mix for disaster.

RuningManJumpSuit wrote:

The only way this is getting back to normal is a vaccine. Everything will continue to be cancelled until that happens.

Unlikely. Look at the flu epidemics of 1918 and the 50s/60s and notice how without a vaccine things still went back to normal. For some reason people like to go to extremes (this things isn't deadly, the world is ending). Pretty much always the answer is in the middle.

XC season starts in 4-5 months. That is a long time for things like this to play out

The Olympics were 4 months away and are canceled. XC will be cancelled.

There were only 100m people in the US in 1918. It was much easier for things to die down plus once you get the flu you are immune to that strain. No one knows if that’s the case yet with this.

If there is no vaccine you’d be willing to go into a big group? College kids will be willing to fly to meets or ride on buses?

CoachB wrote:

Nope

sure hope they cancel football, soccer and field hockey also.

soccerxc wrote:

If it is cancelled, that will be really tough. Like really really bad. Don’t know what I’ll do if my junior year track and senior year XC get cancelled. Just prayin God’s got me

if he had you he wouldnt have let this happen in the first place

Depends on Football. If the NCAA greenlights the NCAA Football season then all other Fall sports will continue. If there's no NCAA Football......then all the other sports are gone too.