Multiple Early-January NCAA Swim Meets Canceled Due To COVID-19 Concerns | SwimSwam

By Ben Dornan on SwimSwam

The Florida State Seminoles’ home meet against Texas A&M, which was scheduled to take place on January 6th, has been canceled due to COVID-19.

In a press release regarding the decision, FSU wrote that “with the postseason on the horizon, Thursday’s meet has been canceled due to the recent spread of COVID-19 around the country.”

Additionally, the dual meet between Florida State and the University of Florida, scheduled for January 8th has been canceled. That January 8th meet was scheduled as a make-up meet, which was originally scheduled to take place in November. The meet was canceled in November due to non-Covid-19 related illness.

Texas A&M and the University of Florida were also set to compete on January 8th, but that meet has also been canceled.

On January 3, 2022, NBC Miami reported that the state recorded over 85,000 cases of Covid-19 over the new-year weekend. The week prior, Florida reported more than 50,000 cases of the virus for 4-straight days including 75,902 on December 30, 2021. Florida reported 32 Covid-19-related deaths between December 24 and December 30, 2021.

Nationally, there has been an incline in Covid-19 cases over the past few days, including a total of 1,017,376 reported cases on January 3, 2022, according to the New York Times.

In addition to these 3 meets between Florida State, Texas A&M, and the University of Florida, another few NCAA meets have been canceled this week. Penn State vs Army and Auburn vs Georgia Tech, and the FIU Sprint Invite, which were scheduled for January 7 and 8, respectively, were both canceled.

The Penn State v Army meet was canceled due to a positive COVID-19 result from a Penn State swimmer. According to the press release from the team, the meet will not be rescheduled. The school also wrote that any contacts of that positive athlete have been put into isolation.

With just over a month to go until conference championship meets, any outbreaks within a team now could mean a loss of several days of training for multiple swimmers.

As cancelations grow within the NCAA, USA Swimming made a similar call recently when they canceled the first stop of the 2022 TYR Pro Swim Series. The first meet was set to take place in Knoxville, Tennessee from January 12 – 15, 2022.

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