A titan season
like no other The pandemic’s effect on Westminster athletics BY NATHAN LARICCIA | SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to publication deadlines, the following story was written in early April, prior to the completion of the spring sports season. In the end, Westminster Titans collected six Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship trophies in 2020-2021: men's basketball, volleyball, football, women's outdoor track, men’s golf and women’s golf.
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top whatever you are doing, leave and come back to New Wilmington. Wilmington. Westminster College All-American pole vault hopefuls Morgan Gossard and Emma Rudolph—who Rudolph —who were in North Carolina preparing to compete at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships—packed up their poles, leaving behind the
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opportunity to compete for their first-ever All-American honor and not knowing if they would ever have this chance again. The Titan baseball and softball teams, both competing in Florida, left the fields immediately with a surplus of questions that not many people in the world even knew how to answer. Other spring sports received the same gut-wrenching
news. Seasons were canceled. Playing careers ended. Dreams were crushed. Unknowns awaited. The day was Friday, March 13, 2020—the day people, especially student-athletes, will remember where they were when they heard the news. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic changed the world, sports and Titan Athletics as everyone knew it.
