Saturday, March 14 7 p.m. |
In what turns out to be the final competition of the 2019-20 athletic year, the Viking rodeo teams take part in night three of the Arkansas-Monticello rodeo. The mens team wins the rodeo, while the womens team place second.
Thursday, March 12 5:08 p.m. | Baker (Kansas) becomes the first school in the Heart of America Athletic Department to cancel games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but will only do so until April 5, with plans to resume competitions after that date. Viking baseball was scheduled to play at Baker March 14-15, and Viking softball was scheduled to play at Baker March 29.
Friday, March 13 2:29 p.m. | In accordance with the measures taken by the Heart and KCAC, Missouri Valley announces the suspension of all athletic-related activities until March 30.
Friday, March 13 10:05 a.m. | The KCAC announces that all spring sports will be suspended
Monday, March 16 10 a.m. | President and CEO of the NAIA, Jim Carr, announces the decision to cancel the remainder of the 2020 spring sports season. The decision effectively ends the 2019-20 athletic year.
until further notice. This
impacts Missouri Valley men’s and women’s lacrosse.
Thursday, March 12 3:42 p.m. | Missouri Valley College announces that spring break will be extended for an additional week, and all graduate and undergraduate courses will be moved to online learning. Teams currently in-season at Missouri Valley are still allowed to compete and practice at this time.
Thursday, March 12 5:55 p.m. | Softball, playing games in Phoenix, Arizona, learn their final games have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team now has to figure out if traveling back to Marshall is possible.
Wednesday, April 8 12 p.m. |
The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association announces the cancellation of the 2020 College National Finals Rodeo in June. Typically, the CNFR is the final athletic event in the Missouri Valley athletic calendar, and this announcement officially brings an end to the 2019-20 athletic year.
Friday, March 13 12:25 p.m. |
Other spring sports not under the NAIA umbrella were also impacted. The shooting sports team had its national competition set for late April and it was canceled.
The Heart of America Athletic Conference announces that all spring sporting competitions will be suspended until March 30.
The lifting teams also had their national competitions canceled.
There were some positive stories to come out through the months of March and April. The Viking rodeo teams were both named Ozark Region champions. The men’s team captured the program’s tenth regional championship since 2008, and fourth-straight overall, while the women’s team earned a fourth regional title in the past six seasons. Four members of the men’s volleyball team were recognized on the Heart All-Conference Team, led by Freshman of the Year, Libero Joao Vitor Bonanoni (Itajai, Brazil). Men’s wrestling student-athletes, Senior Richard Pocock (Plano, Texas) Sophomore Elias Vaoifi (Independence, Missouri) and Freshman Blake Bills (Platte City, Missouri) earned NWCA Scholar All-American Awards. shooting sports student-athlete Freshman Evan Baker was named an Academic All-American. Also, Junior Miyu Shito (Kitakami, Japan) became the first dance student-athlete in program history to earn All-American honors from the NAIA.
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