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48-511: In 2017, a Glendale Raptors team was accepted into the professional Major League Rugby competition and the amateur Glendale teams changed their mascot from the Raptor to the Merlin , transitioning to the new brand before the inaugural season of Major League Rugby in 2018. The Glendale teams play at Infinity Park . The men's squad won the 2011 Division I Championship. They were 2014 runners-up in

96-479: A further review of the school's sports offerings in spring 2021. The most extensive rollback of plans to drop sports came at the College of William & Mary . In early September 2020, W&M announced it would drop seven sports effective in 2021–22—men's and women's gymnastics, men's and women's swimming & diving, men's indoor and outdoor track & field, and women's volleyball. The fallout from this move led

144-516: A professional rugby union team based in the municipality of Glendale in Colorado . The team plays in the transcontinental Super Rugby Americas competition. Established as the amateur "Glendale Raptors" in 2006, the team became a professional club upon joining Major League Rugby as a founding member in 2017, but they played there only three years, competing as the "Colorado Raptors" in their final shortened season of 2020 before withdrawing from

192-434: A proposal to have qualification be dependent on performance in the 2021 world championships (whose top teams will automatically qualify) and a final qualification tournament, as opposed to the previous plan of having qualification determined by both the 2020 and 2021 world championships. Qualification for the women's hockey tournament was to be determined by IIHF World Rankings after the 2020 Women's World Championship . As

240-408: A week later. Similarly, Bowling Green State University announced that it would drop its baseball team , but also had a successful fundraising effort that led to the team being reinstated. The University of Minnesota, which had announced plans to drop four men's sports effective in 2021–22, announced that one of these sports, namely outdoor track & field, would be spared discontinuation, pending

288-627: The 2020 Diamond League , scheduled to be held in Qatar in April, followed by two events in China in May, were postponed until later in the year. On 12 May, a revised schedule was issued, but no points will be awarded for the events. The 2020 Boston Marathon , originally scheduled for 20 April, was postponed until 14 September before being canceled completely on 28 May. On 28 October, organisers announced that

336-486: The 2021 Boston Marathon would not be held on Patriots Day (19 April) as usual, to be rescheduled to sometime in the fall. Organisers cited an ongoing ban on road races in Massachusetts. The race was finally held on 11 October, another fedearal holiday, Columbus Day . The race returned to its original date in 2022. The 2020 London Marathon , scheduled to take place on 26 April, was postponed until 4 October and

384-701: The Pac-12 Conference doing the same the next day. Both conferences later chose to hold abbreviated conference-only football seasons, with the Big Ten starting play on the weekend of 24 October and the Pac-12 on the weekend of 7 November. In August, the NCAA announced that the Division II and Division III Presidents Councils decided to cancel national championships in all fall sports. In September, it

432-757: The Pacific Rugby Premiership in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, the Raptors were accepted into the professional Major League Rugby competition. The amateur Glendale teams were renamed the Glendale Merlins before the inaugural MLR season in 2018. The Raptors finished the MLR regular season in first place in 2018, but lost the Championship final to Seattle . In 2019, the Raptors finished the regular season in sixth place and did not play in

480-725: The Rugby World Cup , and therefore chose to withdraw from the league to better focus their efforts on the development of American players who could compete on an international stage. In June 2022 Raptors played in the "Challenge Cup of the Americas" against Canadians UBC Old Boys Ravens and South Americans Peñarol Rugby and Jaguares XV . The American Raptors squad for the 2024 Super Rugby Americas season is: Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality. The team plays at Infinity Park ,

528-759: The University of New Mexico , the football team moved its first two home games to the sites of their opponents and the last two to Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada , in Clark County near Las Vegas ; while the men's basketball team moved to Lubbock, Texas and played home games at Lubbock Christian University . New Mexico State moved its men's basketball program to Phoenix, Arizona and used Arizona Christian University as its home court. San Jose State University 's football team played its regular-season finale and championship game at Sam Boyd, while

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576-525: The Women's Premier League in 2012. They placed third in 2013, won back-to-back national championships in 2014 and 2015, and placed second in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Five of Glendale's women's players - props Jamie Burke , Sarah Chobot, Sarah Wilson, hooker Kittery Wagner, and flyhalf Hannah Stolba - represented the U.S. team for the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup . Two of Glendale's men's players — hooker Zach Fenoglio and scrum half Niku Kruger — were named to

624-701: The men's basketball team played home games at Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz . The same venue hosted early-season home games of the Stanford University and Santa Clara University men's basketball teams. The financial fallout from the pandemic was specifically cited by the following schools in their decisions to drop certain sports programs: Additionally, the New York Institute of Technology suspended its entire athletic program for two seasons, after which it will reconsider

672-449: The women's basketball tournament , would be conducted behind closed doors with "only essential staff and limited family attendance". The following day, in respect of the suspension of the NBA season and other professional sports leagues, the NCAA announced that all remaining championship events for the 2019–20 academic year would be canceled entirely, resulting in the first cancellation in

720-520: The 81-year history of the NCAA basketball tournament. This created a de facto mythical national championship situation. Other American multi-sports organizations—the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) —also canceled their seasons. Additionally

768-830: The Community College level sports governing bodies restored the season of eligibility to athletes who had already participated in the 2020 spring season. On 12 May 2020, because the California State University system announced that in-person classes would remain suspended through the fall 2020 semester, the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA)—a 12-member NCAA Division II conference consisting entirely of CSU campuses —announced that it would also suspend its fall athletics season. The Patriot League , an NCAA Division I conference that competes in

816-551: The Games. This included both ticketed spectators and the supporters of athletes. While there were initially plans to allow venues to operate at half capacity (to a maximum of 10,000 spectators), it was ultimately announced that nearly the entirety of the Games would be held behind closed doors . Furthermore, the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics that were held in Paris , France on 26 July and 28 August 2024 respectively as onto

864-582: The Japanese government had taken extra precautions to help minimize the outbreak's impact in the country , qualifying events were being canceled or postponed almost daily. According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK , Tokyo 2020 organizing-committee chief executive Toshiro Muto voiced concerns on 5 February, that COVID-19 might "throw cold water on the momentum toward the Games." The traditional Olympic flame lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece , to mark

912-557: The NCAA announced that 2021 Division II championship events in winter and spring sports would also have a 25% overall reduction in participants (individual sports varied from 17 to 34% based on logistics) to mitigate costs of testing and health protocols, as well as lost income. Programs located in the state of New Mexico and in Santa Clara County, California had to relocate practices and games because of legislative bans on any competitive sport requiring physical contact. At

960-853: The U.S. team for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Additionally, Iniki Fa'amausili played for the US U-20 national team that won the 2012 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Three of Glendale's men's players represented the US national team at the 2011 Rugby World Cup : James Paterson , Nese Malifa , and Nic Johnson . Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality. Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality. American Raptors The American Raptors are

1008-590: The UK organisation for university sport, announced that all fixtures from 17 March to 1 April would not take place. Some individual events, like the orienteering and windsurfing championships were canceled entirely, while others were postponed indefinitely. On 6 March 2020, in the first round of the NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament , a game played at Johns Hopkins University between Yeshiva University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute became

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1056-552: The academies are full members of the Patriot League, their football teams play outside the conference in the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The days following the Ivy League's cancellation of fall sports saw two of the major "Power Five" conferences of FBS announce that if fall sports were played, only in-conference matchups would take place. The Big Ten Conference made this announcement on 9 July, with

1104-458: The cost of maintaining the unused venues. The organizing committee published various planned safety protocols for athletes, spectators, and members of the press. It was recommended that athletes be vaccinated , but they were not required to do so. On 20 March 2021, citing international travel restrictions and the need to ensure the safety of athletes, it was announced that no spectators or guests from outside of Japan would be allowed to attend

1152-421: The decision. Similarly, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff announced that it was "suspending" its men's and women's tennis teams for the 2020–21 school year, citing the pandemic, but did not officially eliminate the tennis program. UAH initially dropped men's ice hockey alongside both of its tennis teams, but a successful fundraising drive by alumni and team supporters led the school to reinstate hockey

1200-546: The development of American players who can win the World Cup for the United States ." Asked to explain how the Raptors withdrawing from the league would help to develop American rugby players, Glendale City Manager Linda Cassaday said that MLR had been founded with a core mission of developing American rugby players and originally had limited teams to three foreign players, although this expanded to five players before

1248-753: The earliest. In the Philippines, NCAA Season 95 and UAAP Season 82 were both indefinitely suspended. NCAA Season 95 was terminated on 19 March after the then community quarantine in Luzon was upgraded to an "enhanced community quarantine", in effect a lockdown. UAAP Season 82 was canceled on 7 April, after the enhanced community quarantine was extended to 30 April. On 1 May, the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) have decided to cancel their 2020 season. On 16 March 2020, British Universities and Colleges Sport ,

1296-409: The fall academic term) would not begin play until after the end of the fall term. It left open the possibility of shifting its fall sports, including football, to the spring. The Patriot League would later cancel its fall sports season entirely on 13 July, but gave the two federally operated service academies among its membership, Army and Navy , the option to play fall sports as they saw fit. While

1344-624: The fall semester of the 2020–21 academic year, including Canadian football (the first time the Vanier Cup was not contested since its inception), cross-country , field hockey, women's rugby, and soccer. On 15 October 2020, U Sports announced it would do the same thing for the winter 2021 portion of the 2020–21, once again cancelling all winter national championships as well. Atlantic University Sport , Canada West , and Ontario University Athletics followed suit, suspending all university athletics programs initially through to 31 December 2020, but

1392-549: The finals. The team was renamed the Colorado Raptors ahead of the 2020 season  but the season was shortened and eventually cancelled due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic . On April 9, 2020, the Raptors announced that they would withdraw from Major League Rugby, effective May 2, 2020, the first team to do so. Their announcement explained their withdrawal by saying that "our greater responsibility lies in

1440-520: The first U.S. sporting event to be played without fans in attendance, after a student at Yeshiva University tested positive for COVID-19. On 11 March 2020, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) — the main U.S.A. sanctioning body for college athletics — initially announced that its winter-semester championships and tournaments, including its popular "March Madness" men's basketball tournament and

1488-592: The first rugby-specific, municipally-owned stadium in the United States. ° = Preseason game °° = Playoff Semifinal °°° = Final at Torero Stadium in San Diego, California On March 12, 2020, MLR announced the season would go on hiatus immediately for 30 days due to fears surrounding the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic . It was cancelled the following week Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports#Rugby union The COVID-19 pandemic caused

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1536-433: The first season began in 2018. MLR had expanded from seven teams in 2018 to 12 in 2020 without having enough American players to fill out rosters and had raised the ceiling on foreign players to 10 per team. The Raptors believed that both this overall number of foreign players and the higher proportion of foreign to American players no longer best served the goal of developing American players who could compete successfully in

1584-509: The first time in the history of the modern Olympics that an Olympiad has been postponed. The opening ceremonies of the Games were officially rescheduled to 23 July 2021, 4 years, 11 months and 2 days or 1,797 days from the most recent Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. The cost of postponing the Olympics to 2021 was estimated to be US$ 5.8 billion, which included

1632-602: The inaugural season of the Pacific Rugby Premiership losing to the San Francisco Golden Gate RFC 39-38 on the last play. The team won the Pacific Rugby Premiership in 2015, defeating San Francisco Golden Gate by 25-11. They repeated the feat in 2016, winning the Pacific Rugby Premiership title by 44-20 against San Francisco Golden Gate at their home field, Infinity Park . The women's squad advanced from USA Rugby's Division I into

1680-412: The league. Following withdrawal from Major League Rugby , the team renamed themselves the "Colorado XOs" turning their attention to player development of players originally playing other sports, before becoming the "American Raptors" in 2021. The Glendale Raptors were founded as an amateur rugby club in 2006. They won the national Division I Championship in 2011, and were back-to-back winners of

1728-720: The most significant disruption to the worldwide sporting calendar since World War II . Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events were cancelled or postponed. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. At the time, spectators had no games to watch and players no games to play. Only a few countries and territories—such as Hong Kong , Turkmenistan , Belarus , and Nicaragua —continued professional sporting matches as planned. The 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were scheduled to take place in Tokyo , starting 24 July and 25 August, respectively. Although

1776-515: The normal 4-year Olympiad schedule, were also impacted due to shorter duration (2 years, 11 months and 18 days or 1,083 days) between the last Olympics. Although the 2022 Winter Olympics hosted by Beijing, China kept their original start date of 4 February 2022 and went ahead as scheduled, the pandemic has already impacted qualifying in specific sports such as curling —where the World Curling Federation announced

1824-415: The organisation announced on 28 October. On 12 January 2021, it was announced that the 2021 Games would scheduled for 13–29 May 2022. It was postponed to 2026. X Games Chongli 2020 was postponed. X Games Minneapolis 2020 was cancelled. U Sports curtailed its men's and women's ice hockey championships on 12 March 2020. On 8 June, U Sports announced that it had cancelled all national championships for

1872-649: The pandemic—effectively ending the entirety of their athletics programs. In August 2020, officials at the University of California, Riverside , a Division I member, publicly announced that shutting down the school's entire athletic program was one possible option to address pandemic-related financial challenges. As of mid-October, no decision on the program's future had yet been reached. The 2019–20 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup ended two weeks earlier after World Cup races in Sweden , Slovenia , and Italy scheduled for March were canceled. An earlier February World Cup race

1920-477: The school's athletic director to resign a month after this announcement. W&M eventually reversed course completely, restoring the three women's sports on 19 October and announcing on 5 November that the four men's sports would continue to be sponsored through at least 2021–22. MacMurray College , Notre Dame de Namur University , and Urbana University announced that they would wind down operations and close due to economic issues brought upon or exacerbated by

1968-581: The second level of D1 Football, the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), initially announced on 22 June that while it would hold its fall sports seasons, its teams would not fly to any competitions, and overnight travel would only be allowed on a case-by-case basis. Another FCS conference, the Ivy League , announced on 8 July that it was canceling all fall sports, and that winter sports (whose seasons normally begin during

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2016-476: The start of the 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay was held on 12 March without spectators. On 23 March, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain announced that they would withdraw from the Games unless they are postponed to 2021. On 24 March 2020, the IOC and Tokyo Organizing Committee announced that the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics would be "rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021", marking

2064-1376: The tournament was cancelled, the existing rankings going into the tournament were used instead. The World Games in Birmingham , Alabama , were scheduled for July 2021, but because of the rescheduling of the 2020 Summer Olympics , the eleventh World Games went ahead in July 2022 instead. The 2020 Arctic Winter Games were cancelled. Additionally, the 2022 Arctic Winter Games was postponed to 2023. The 2020 ASEAN Para Games were cancelled and 2021 SEA Games in Hanoi were postponed. The 2021 ASEAN Para Games in Hanoi were postponed to 2022 and moved to Surakarta mid-preparation. The 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu, China were postponed to 2023. The 2021 Winter Universiade in Lucerne , Switzerland were first moved from 21 to 31 January to 11–21 December, then on 29 November, this event were cancelled. The 2021 World Masters Games , originally scheduled to be held in Japan on between May 14–30, were indefinitely postponed after 2022,

2112-452: Was announced that 2020 Division I championships administered by NCAA in fall sports (cross country, field hockey, football soccer, women's volleyball and men's water polo) would be rescheduled to spring 2021, and conducted with a 25% reduction in championship participants. Matches played in fall or spring would count toward qualification. The Football Bowl Subdivision was not included as it is not an NCAA-administered championship. In December,

2160-510: Was announced that the 2020 Archery World Cup would be cancelled. The 2020 World Athletics Indoor Championships were scheduled to be held from 13 to 15 March in Nanjing , China, but were postponed until March 2021. The 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships was scheduled to be held on 29 March in Gdynia , Poland, but was postponed until October 2020. The first three events of

2208-726: Was later extended through to 31 March 2021, as announced on 15 October 2020. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland had a significant impact on the conduct of sports , affecting both competitive sports leagues and tournaments and recreational sports. The Gaelic games of football , hurling , camogie , and ladies' football saw all competitions suspended from 12 March 2020. The National Hurling League , National Football League , National Camogie League and Ladies' National Football League were suspended, with competitions not intended to resume until 29 March at

2256-867: Was moved from China to Austria . The 2020–21 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup also saw a number of races in January rescheduled from Wengen to Kitzbühel to Flachau. The opening three stages of the 2020 Archery World Cup were postponed. Other events postponed include the Pan American Archery Championships , which were scheduled to be held in Monterrey , Mexico, from 23 to 29 March, and the European Para-Archery Championships , which were scheduled to be held in Olbia , Italy, from 18 to 26 April. On 15 July it

2304-574: Was restricted to elites only. The 2021 and 2022 editions of the London Marathon were also held in October to maximise the chances of a mass participation event. The 2023 edition of the race returned to its normal spring date. The 2020 Berlin Marathon was prohibited from being held on its originally scheduled dates. It would be cancelled on 24 June. The 2020 New York City Marathon

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