After more than a year without Ivy League athletics due to the coronavirus pandemic, the league is expected to resume a full competition schedule in fall 2021, the Ivy League Council of Presidents announced in a joint statement Tuesday.
The presidents convened last week to finalize their shared aim of returning to regular competition for the upcoming fall season, “barring any extraordinary circumstance” surrounding the pandemic, according to an emailed statement Harvard’s Athletics Director Erin McDermott sent to student athletes on Tuesday.
The presidents cited marked improvements in infection case numbers nationally as well as vaccination rollouts as drivers of their decision.