There were no confirmed positive tests at the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships last week, and as of 2 P.M. Eastern Time on Thursday, there had been no confirmed positive tests at the NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships.
That’s a huge victory for the sport, especially after many teams struggled with positive tests early in the season.
This doesn’t mean that no student-athletes tested positive before departing for the championships at their home institutions, as there is still at least one unexplained absence from the men’s meet this week.
Testing Data:
- At the DI Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships over 1,800 tests administered with no confirmed blue protocols.
- As of 2 p.m. Thursday at the DI Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships 1,289 tests completed with no blue protocols.
The NCAA enters a participant into its “blue protocol,” which would essentially remove that individual from the meet, with a positive antigen test and a positive PCR test.
Antigen tests return results more quickly, but are less sensitive and more frequently return false negative results. A PCR test is more sensitive and better at detecting the virus on a swab, but takes longer to return results.
As of last Thursday, the NCAA reported 8 confirmed COVID-19 cases among Tier 1, 2, and 3 individuals at the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship in Indiana among 9,100 tests, and just 1 confirmed COVID-19 case among 2,600 tests at the women’s D1 basketball tournament in Texas.
Positive test from the kid from Iowa 🙁
That test must have come before leaving home. The NCAA data is only from on-site testing.
The only thing I’m positive for is prelim induced mania. What a morning for the horns!
No meteors have struck Greensboro in the past five days!
the best news of the day. Perhaps all of that chlorinated water has something to do with it??
Are you paying attention, USA-S, FINA, and IOC?
Steve… are you a fellow bro?
Niceeee
How often are they required to test at the meet? Coaches, officials, and swimmers.
Swimmers and coaches are tested before arrival, and then again Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
Great news for teams. coaches, and supporters!
Yeah I guess. Hopefully they keep the athletes away from the 30 or so Texas family members who have gathered in a hotel room in Greensboro (probably without masks) to watch the meet together.
I guess if it spread to the swimmers it wouldn’t show up on a test until they were back in Austin anyay?
The horror!!!
Perhaps they have been immunized!