Western Kentucky has paused activities within its women's soccer program for two weeks, the school announced in a release Friday.
The school announced Monday one women's soccer player tested actively positive for COVID-19, and the decision to pause activities came in consultation with the Barren River Health Department and WKU Athletics' medical partners following additional acute PCR swab COVID-19 testing, according to the release.
The women’s soccer program had a regularly scheduled break from activity planned for this week, and had already extended that break to begin Monday as a precautionary measure.
Women's soccer is the first program to be suspended by WKU due to COVID-19 since teams began returning to campus in June, but several other schools across the country have been forced to have programs break from planned activities.