UMaine Pauses Winter Sports After COVID-19 Positives In Athletes

Maine Public | By Robbie Feinberg

Published November 24, 2020 at 5:00 PM EST

Maine teammates celebrate after scoring a goal during an NCAA college hockey game against Quinnipiac, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Hamden, Conn.

The University of Maine is pausing its winter athletics season through at least Dec. 8 due to the number of positive COVID-19 tests on campus.

Those cases include people associated with varsity sports programs.

The school says games will be canceled, and any traveling teams will return to campus and follow public health guidance. Practices will also be altered.

The school says it will “re-evaluate the situation” on Dec. 8.

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Robbie Feinberg

Robbie grew up in New Hampshire, but has since written stories for radio stations from Washington, D.C., to a fishing village in Alaska. Robbie graduated from the University of Maryland and got his start in public radio at the Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Before arriving at Maine Public Radio, he worked in the Midwest, where he covered everything from beer to migrant labor for public radio station WMUK in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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