UTEP to end tradition of fall camps Wochit
When so much of the sports world was shut down, UTEP athletics was busy coming up with a plan for a summer reopening that assumed some student-athletes would contract the coronavirus.
That happened late last week when five football players tested positive for COVID-19, starting the clock on a two-week halt in the Miners' offseason programs that will conclude July 16 and causing UTEP to put into action plans it worked hard to create.
"It wasn't a matter of would we ever have any, it was a matter of when," athletic director Jim Senter said, adding that none of the five players who tested positive have required hospitalization.