ANN ARBOR, Mich. ā Sports on University of Michiganās campus came to a sudden halt Saturday after a handful of athletes tested positive for the COVID B.1.1.7 variant.
Student athletes and staff from sports including tennis, track and field, wrestling, hockey, volleyball and gymnastics all must quarantine for two weeks as suggested by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
āI want to commend the University of Michigan for taking the actions that they did.
He started a petition Monday on behalf of the Coalition of Student Athletes and it garnered thousands of signatures in a few hours.
āWe were frustrated that we really didnāt have a voice on the matter, and weāre doing all the right things going into that mandate, doing things the right that was still kind of taken from us very abruptly,ā Hubaker said.