YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Jap Gateway Group Faculty Board of Trustees has introduced the cancellation of the autumn sports activities season, and the discontinuation of the varsity’s collegiate sports activities program.

The varsity plans so as to add a extra inclusive-based sports activities program for the 2020-2021 college 12 months.

Jap Gateway Group Faculty will work with the 24 student-athletes to launch every to discover choices to play at one other faculty or college.

EGCC had been fielding a baseball staff and deliberate to launch a girls’s volleyball program this fall, each competing as members of the Nationwide Junior Faculty Athletic Affiliation (NJCAA).

“The transition to a club-based athletic program will present extra college students with a possibility to take part in extracurricular actions, in addition to make our sports activities packages extra tailor-made to every campus,” stated Jap Gateway Group Faculty Interim President Michael Geoghegan. “We’re significantly excited to introduce esports to Jap Gateway Group Faculty as a approach to get our on-line college students concerned.”

The faculty will rent coordinators for every bodily campus, in Steubenville and in Youngstown, to coordinate membership sports activities.

“We’ve heard from college students that they have been keen on having extra campus-based actions, and we are going to interact the scholars on campus and on-line to find out what kinds of membership sports activities we are going to create,” stated Geoghegan