Favoritism or following science?

Barry Collier addresses the press last year. The Athletics department has stated their positive case rate was less than 1 percent. Photo by IndyStar.

HENRY BREDEMEIER | SPORTS REPORTER | hbredeme@butler.edu

Certain teams at Butler University are being tested for COVID-19 more often than others, depending on the sports’ inherent contact risk level.

Jack Haywood, a junior midfielder from Nottingham, England, was one of multiple men’s soccer players to test positive for COVID-19. Haywood said that he personally has been tested “six to seven times” since he returned to campus.

In contrast, sophomore swimmer Alexa Vota said she and her team have not been tested since the beginning of the year, when…