{"id":14028,"date":"2020-11-02T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/02\/newmac-suspends-competition-for-winter-season\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:10:51","slug":"newmac-suspends-competition-for-winter-season","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/02\/newmac-suspends-competition-for-winter-season\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWMAC suspends competition for winter season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><body><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clark University President David Fithian has joined the presidents and athletic directors of the New England Women&rsquo;s and Men&rsquo;s Athletic Conference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmacsports.com\/general\/2019-20\/releases\/20200717i4wrr2\">announce<\/a> that due to the continued risks presented by COVID-19 the NEWMAC will not compete in a traditional conference schedule this upcoming winter season.<\/p>\n<p>While there will be no regular-season or postseason competition within the conference, Clark will continue to pursue opportunities for competition for its winter teams before the end of the academic year. No decision has been made for the Spring 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkathletics.com\/general\/2020-21\/releases\/20201102ezyo75\">here<\/a>.<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Clark University President David Fithian has joined the presidents and athletic directors of the New England Women&rsquo;s and Men&rsquo;s Athletic Conference to announce that due to the continued risks presented by COVID-19 the NEWMAC will not compete in a traditional conference schedule this upcoming winter season. While there will be no regular-season or postseason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14029,"template":"","meta":{"story_color":"#525250","story_headerImg":14029,"section_label":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[223],"displayed_author":[324],"featured":[],"topic":[236],"class_list":["post-14028","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clark-community","displayed_author-clark-news-and-media-relations","topic-athletics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NEWMAC suspends competition for winter season | ClarkU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/02\/newmac-suspends-competition-for-winter-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEWMAC suspends competition for winter season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Clark University President David Fithian has joined the presidents and athletic directors of the New England Women&rsquo;s and Men&rsquo;s Athletic Conference to announce that due to the continued risks presented by COVID-19 the NEWMAC will not compete in a traditional conference schedule this upcoming winter season. 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