For Tulane Athletics, the seasons never started. A mandatory evacuation was issued for the city, scattering the athletes to Jackson State in Jackson, Mississippi. Subsequent storms created power loss and isolated friends and family.
"I think the hardest thing about 10 years ago was watching it all unfold on TV and knowing we can't go home," Executive Associate Athletic Director Brandon Macneill said. "There was no blueprint. This has never happened to anyone before."
Now, 10 years after the hurricane, much has changed for the sports teams that play during the waning weeks of hurricane season. With so much destruction left in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, new policies were in order.