Mountain East

Reflections on a Silent Spring

    WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – Earlier this week, West Liberty University and its fellow members of the Mountain East Conference made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel all athletic-related activities for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year as part of the ongoing response to the COVID-19 crisis.
    As was the case with most NCAA conferences, the MEC had already suspended its spring sports for an indefinite period while awaiting further guidance from government officials. The total shutdown merely confirmed what most had been expecting.