College sports programs’ quest to re-start on-campus activities for athletes idled by the coronavirus pandemic has to start somewhere. At Iowa State, it started in the mind of associate athletics director for sports medicine Mark Coberley.
More than a month in the making, the plan that Coberley and his staff of 13 developed launched last week under what the athletic department is terming a pilot return project — although that’s a bit of misnomer, given that Coberley said all of the athletes involved had been living off-campus in Ames.
“We have not asked anybody to come back” from elsewhere around the country, Coberley said.