NORMAL — Illinois State director of athletics Larry Lyons said Monday one Redbird football player has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation in off-campus housing.
“We did 160 tests in three groups, 101 student-athletes and 59 coaches and support staff,” Lyons said. “We had one positive. It was an asymptomatic student-athlete, and that individual is isolated off campus.”
Lyons confirmed the positive test came from a member of the football team who was “not living with any other student-athletes. He will isolate at home like a regular person.”
Members of ISU’s football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, soccer, swimming and cross country teams were allowed back on campus in a phased return beginning in mid June.