There have been 16 positive tests as a result, 11 of them on the football team. Six of those players are still considered active cases. For Parker, none of them are viewed as a negative result, but part of the process.
“Positive tests, in my opinion, are affirmations we’re being successful with our protocols. I don’t view them as failures,” he said. “We’re interested in detecting viral spread. We want to identify it, isolate it and protect as many people as possible. We did have creeping up in our positives, and that’s what necessitated the pause in football last Wednesday.”
Each positive result has led to contact tracing, conducted by CSU’s Public Health Department. Parker noted those results may lead to self-isolation or quarantine situations for individuals who have been within 6 feet of a positive-result patient for at least 15 minutes without a mask. Lori Lynn, the executive director of CSU’s Health Network, said the campus has plans in place for all students – on or off campus – to transition them from a residence hall to a designated quarantine area, with meal delivery to their door and services for counseling and academics.
Lynn said the current recommendations for a known positive is for a 10-day quarantine starting from the onset of symptoms. For a person who has been in close contact with a known positive, it is 14 days.
Colorado State has had 54 student-athletes who completed a 10- or 14-day quarantine, with four doing both. There were 26 who did 10-days, 24 who completed 14. The time frame for those in quarantine ranged from June through the end of July.
For the student-athletes involved, they still have concerns, no matter what protocols are in place by the athletic department.
“The biggest concern is getting started. We’re starting right now, but then getting our season wiped from us, and it feels inevitable at this point,” senior soccer captain Bailyn Furrow said. “I know everyone says to train like you’re going to play, but watching all the other conferences cancel and schools cancel, it’s really hard mentally right now to get in the drive for season. We’re all worried we’re going to put in a ton of work and get our season stripped away.”
Some of her teammates, she said, are worried about travel, especially when it comes to hot spots in Northern California or Texas, both places the Rams’ soccer team is currently set to visit. As the director of operations for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Furrow said other concerns have come to light, some of which she noted have been addressed.
For instance, she said some student-athletes felt they were being left in the dark about who has tested positive, but it was then explained to them – and reiterated by Parker in a conference call with the media on Monday – HIPAA regulations do not allow to make public those results.
Still, additional transparency is a request. For instance, the soccer team regularly holds captain’s practices before the official start of training, but those were nixed without advanced warning.
“I would like to see them be more straight forward and sometimes explaining why certain rules are in place,” Furrow said. “I feel sometimes we’re just told this is what we’re doing and there’s not really an explanation. I think it’s helpful if they give you a purpose in why it’s happening and why it’s the procedure and why we’re doing this way. I think it will be easier for athletes to comprehend why I may be out this long. Just more transparency of why rules are being decided.”
When the additional testing was announced for Monday, it provided another layer of reassurance for Jackson, Furrow and senior quarterback Patrick O’Brien, who said he and others are concerned about teammates who may be symptomatic but still exposing teammates to the virus. Parker said it was planned in advance for football before heading into more intense workouts, but if the players had been told prior, they would have felt better about being kept informed.
For someone who wants the season to take place, keeping the players healthy is his ultimate concern, and with the recent outbreak, O’Brien believes the players have a better understanding of the role they ultimately play.
“We did a great job, then we kinda fell apart before we got shut down. If we can get back to where everyone is healthy and we can play and practice, then we should do it,” he said. “That’s how I feel. I think they’re doing all they can really do. You can’t really control all aspects of everyone’s lives. What they can control, I thought they were doing a good job at it.”
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