October 7th, 2020 

We, the student athletes of West Chester have been informed that our spring season has been finalized in favor of not happening. From the time we enter into travel sports as little kids, day in and day out we devote our lives to this path we have chosen, to get to the point where a university takes a chance on our abilities. Now we are here and our athletic careers are being put to a firm halt, without any consideration of us athletes, without any respect to time, without any room for improvement of the virus, without any alternatives discussed. Our ALL has been given to the sport that we love, and we will not let the most important time of our athletic career, and one of the few years we have left, be thrown away without a fight. Other schools are figuring it out, why can’t we? There are ways to make this work; reduction in spectators, masks, frequent covid testing, and proper sanitation. On behalf of West Chester Athletics, us athletes are relying on West Chester University to make this work, as well as continuing the goal of West Chester University’s mission statement. We ask that this decision be reexamined at a later date. We would like to have a voice in our circumstance. Please reconsider your decision to terminate spring athletics, thank you.