FAYETTEVILLE — Athletes at the University of Arkansas will be able to begin working out on campus on a voluntary basis June 8.
SEC presidents and chancellors approved the date during a vote Friday. The workouts will not include any team practices and will be conducted under “strict supervision,” according to the SEC, and under guidelines adopted by each university.
At the UA, those guidelines have been developed through discussions with Arkansas Department of Health, the university’s environmental health department and doctors at UAMS in Little Rock, UA athletics director Hunter Yurachek told university trustees Wednesday. Yurachek told trustees that only returning athletes in the sports of football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, soccer and men’s and women’s cross country will be brought back to campus initially.