Lee Flames soccer, volleyball delayed by a month

Lee Flames soccer, volleyball delayed by a month

The lee flames soccer and volleyball seasons will now be delayed by about a month due to the coronavirus.

The gulf south conference is joining the slew of conferences pushing back start dates.

Right now, practice can start on august 27 -- with the first day of competition september 24.

Schedules will be reduced to conference games only.

Lee athletic director larry carpenter says this will give the school time to prepare for hosting teams on campus amid the pandemic.

Larry carpenter: "i wasn't in favor of postponing all fall sports.

Several conferences in division ii have already done that.

They just said, 'we're not having fall sports.'

So for me, this is the right decision.

I don't think we would've been ready to start on time."

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