MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — When the COVID-19 pandemic caused college campuses around the world to close, Middle Tennessee's students had to find a way to get home.
For some, that meant finding plane tickets to fly around the U.S. and the world or packing up cars for cross-country adventures. A few more didn't have to go but a few minutes.
"I really just packed my stuff up and went 10 minutes down the road to my parents' house," rising senior basketball player Donovan Sims, a Blackman High School alum, said. "It's a big thing we're going through right now, and I feel fortunate that I have my family right here and I can just go down the street and have their support and everything.