{"id":194253,"date":"2020-03-16T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194253"},"modified":"2020-03-16T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:19:51","slug":"naia-ends-spring-sports-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194253","title":{"rendered":"NAIA ends spring sports season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"first-p\">\n<p>Kansas City\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naia.org\/general\/2019-20\/releases\/spring-sports-cancelled\">MO<\/a>) The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has canceled its 2020 spring sports season, including at the University of Jamestown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<p>NAIA President and CEO Jim Carr says the decision was made to immediately cancel the season Monday following a meeting with the NAIA&#8217;s Council of Presidents Executive Committee, which received input from the organization&#8217;s National Administrative Council and National Eligibility Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The NAIA stated no spring sport student-athlete will be charged a season of competition, and any spring sport student-athlete who was enrolled full-time in 2020 will be awarded two additional semester terms of attendance or the equivalent. The NAIA&#8217;s decision to cancel spring sports stems from the current COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Carr says, &#8220;We know this is extremely disappointing, especially for our student-athletes.\u00a0 All possible options for maintaining the spring season were discussed at great length by multiple governance groups. However, the growing state of emergency due to COVID-19, as well as the Center for Disease Control\u2019s recommendation yesterday to limit gatherings to fewer than 50 people for eight weeks, meant we could not in good conscience move forward, possibly putting student-athletes, staff, and fans at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City\u00a0 (MO) The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has canceled its 2020 spring sports season, including at the University of Jamestown. NAIA President and CEO Jim Carr says the decision was made to immediately cancel the season Monday following a meeting with the NAIA&#8217;s Council of Presidents Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194254,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194253\/revisions\/194254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}