Axewomen basketball head coach Len Harvey (’06) on the Alternate Sport Model: “safe opportunities for fun, socialization and fitness.”
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ACADIA BULLETIN FALL 2020
Photo: Peter Oleskevich
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cadia University’s Department of Athletics unveiled in September a plan to offer its student body an opportunity to engage in sport and fitness during a COVID-19-altered setting on the Acadia campus. Referred to as the Alternate Sport Model, the project is a collaboration of several groups on campus to utilize the skills of Acadia Athletics’ coaches and student-athletes by offering sport and fitness opportunities to the Acadia campus and Wolfville community. “We began discussing an alternate sport model in anticipation of Atlantic University Sport canceling the fall season,” says Executive Director of Athletics, Kevin Dickie. “At first, it was around how can our varsity studentathletes compete at the sports they love, but quickly became how we can incorporate all students, club and intramural. Now, on behalf of Acadia, we have created a campus ‘super-league.’”
