The NCAA Sport Science Institute released its latest "return-to-sport" guidelines on Thursday.
The guidelines are "designed to inform schools in responding appropriately based on their specific circumstances," per the NCAA. Thursday's guidelines including recommendations for daily self-health checks, the use of face coverings and test results within 72 hours of competition in high contact risk sports.
“When we made the extremely difficult decision to cancel last spring’s championships it was because there was simply no way to conduct them safely,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement. “This document lays out the advice of health care professionals as to how to resume college sports if we can achieve an environment where COVID-19 rates are manageable.