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BREAKING: Marquette requires athletes to receive COVID-19 tests this week

After Marquette delayed the start of voluntary workouts July 14, the athletics department implemented new protocol that includes mandatory COVID-19 testing for all student athletes who returned to campus and a seven-day monitoring period — Deputy Athletic Director Mike Broeker told Paint Touches, a Marquette basketball analysis and opinion blog.

Broeker said baseline testing with begin this week for every student athlete.

These protocols follow NCAA and BIG EAST regulations relating to non-competition testing. Broeker said the protocol is on a sport-by-sport basis and how the NCAA defines each contact sport at either a low, intermediate or high risk.