Per week after Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina, and did immense injury to town and surrounding space, UNC-Asheville launched an replace about getting their athletic groups. Director of Athletics Janet Cone shared that every one student-athletes have been relocated to exterior the quick space.
“We now have been working tirelessly to discover a approach for our fall sports activities groups to observe and compete in Huge South Convention common season and championship competitions. Due to our sister establishment UNC Charlotte, our males’s and ladies’s soccer and volleyball groups can be housed on their campus beginning Monday, October 7…as well as, we now have tentative plans for Males’s and Girls’s Tennis, Girls’s Golf, and Girls’s Swim and Dive to be hosted by different establishments and communities.”
There isn’t any official phrase but on the place the swim staff—which is a ladies’s solely program—will be capable to practice, however as UNC-Asheville used the phrase “tentative” to explain their plans for the staff, they might not be capable to share the precise location till they’ve labored out all the main points.
This isn’t the primary time that college students from colleges affected by hurricanes have been relocated to close by colleges. Throughout Hurricane Katrina, lots of of universities helped college students from Tulane and different New Orleans faculties, together with enrolling them as provisional college students. Pupil-athletes have been usually moved by the staff; swimming and diving, together with males’s and ladies’s tennis, volleyball, and ladies’s soccer have been housed at Texas A&M College.
Full Assertion by UNC-Asheville AD:
Pricey Bulldog Household,
Firstly, we want to thank everybody who has reached out to test on our student-athletes, coaches, and employees. Because the Metropolis of Asheville begins to recuperate from this horrendous pure catastrophe, now we have relocated all of our student-athletes to places exterior of our quick space.
We now have been working tirelessly to discover a approach for our fall sports activities groups to observe and compete in Huge South Convention common season and championship competitions. Due to our sister establishment, UNC Charlotte, our males’s and ladies’s soccer and volleyball groups can be housed on their campus beginning Monday, October 7. These applications will be capable to observe whereas at Charlotte in preparation for returning to motion as early as Friday, October 11.
As well as, we now have tentative plans for Males’s and Girls’s Tennis, Girls’s Golf, and Girls’s Swim and Diving to be hosted by different establishments and communities.
Our subsequent precedence is Males’s and Girls’s Basketball, and work has already begun to search out non permanent areas for these applications to remain and practice.
The security and well-being of our student-athletes, coaches, and employees is on the forefront of our selections to search out non permanent placements for our groups. Having alternatives for our student-athletes to proceed competing whereas our metropolis recovers is a privilege we don’t take frivolously.
We want to thank Chancellor van Noort for permitting our college students to proceed to coach, UNC Charlotte Athletic Director Mike Hill and his employees for welcoming our college students with open arms, and the Huge South for being extraordinarily supportive of our scenario right here in Asheville. We’ll share extra details about the remaining applications as we affirm places and different particulars.
As we proceed to evaluate our wants and restoration efforts, a UNC Asheville catastrophe aid fund has been established. Your contributions will help all the campus group. To provide, go to https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/52762/donations/new.
Sincerely,
Janet R. Cone
Director of Athletics
