UTEP athletics set to move forward after positive coronavirus tests

UTEP to end tradition of fall camps Wochit

When so much of the sports world was shut down, UTEP athletics was busy coming up with a plan for a summer reopening that assumed some student-athletes would contract the coronavirus.

That happened late last week when five football players tested positive for COVID-19, starting the clock on a two-week halt in the Miners' offseason programs that will conclude July 16 and causing UTEP to put into action plans it worked hard to create.

"It wasn't a matter of would we ever have any, it was a matter of when," athletic director Jim Senter said, adding that none of the five players who tested positive have required hospitalization. "Now that we have had…