Back home in Boise, Idaho, she worked out with a small group of friends in the summer, and all of them were trying to be careful. But one of them tested positive, so she left home for the sake of her family and to self-isolate in Fort Collins. Once that was over, she went to campus to get tested as the basketball team reported, and when one of her teammates came up positive, the entire team went into a 14-day quarantine per the Colorado State Pandemic Preparedness Team following CDC guidelines. She had one day of freedom before one of her roommates, a CSU athlete from another sport, tested positive.
Weathers’ story is similar.
She landed in quarantine the first time because an athlete from another team she had been around tested positive. That was July 6. It was a teammate testing positive that led to the second and third time. In all, half of the volleyball roster has been placed in quarantine at some point.
She never really had a chance to get her college volleyball career up and running. She wasn’t able to make new friends, get to know her new teammates and coaches.
It’s was a nasty cycle for both of them. They are the poster children for the ripple effects of the pandemic, the example of the measure’s Colorado State University is taking to mitigate the spread of the virus.
“We’ve had a few student-athletes with some really challenging circumstances,” said Terry DeZeeuw, CSU’s senior associate athletic director for health and performance. “I think that in itself really illustrates the challenges of us trying manage COVID-19 from both an isolation and quarantine as well as prevention of spread and transmission. These are two individuals basically had an inadvertent close contact exposure through no fault of their own, which resulted in a 14-day quarantine due to public health guidelines.
“It presents a lot of challenges, and you certainly felt for those two young ladies, because they were excited to be here working out as part of the team, and they weren’t able to do that this summer.”
The first time for Brocke, it was her way of doing her part. She didn’t want to take chances, least of all with her team. Colorado State’s athletic department has tested every student-athlete before starting any kind of workouts. If a student-athlete is put into quarantine, they are tested on the back end before being allowed to return.
She spent her self-imposed isolation in her apartment, as well as all of her first quarantine. During the second stint, she had to move to a hotel, as the lease at her apartment ended. She spent a lot of hours on FaceTime with her family and became an expert on the Netflix catalog to pass the time.
In every sense, her life was up Schitt’s Creek for a good month, so she spent some time getting to know the Rose family. She learned a lot about the high-end reality market through Selling Sunset. She probably qualifies for an interior design degree, too, comparing and contrasting styles of multiple series. She set roots in Tree Hill, N.C., with Nathan and Lucas breaking her heart multiple times.
She’s gone from being completely bored and making up ways to stay active to being completely busy. She is taking on a big academic task, but she knows the alternative.
It’s easy for her to pick which route to take.
“Senior year we’re kicking it off strong with 18 credits. It’s been a heavy load,” Brocke said. “Then practicing and lifting every single day … It’s just been nice to get back in that routine again. I feel with COVID it for so long didn’t feel like there was any type of routine. It’s just been nice to feel like I’m in a routine again, back up and in shape and doing things basically normal again.”
Normal, to a point. Because that now means cautious to the extreme.
Her coach, Ryun Williams, is absolutely sure he wouldn’t have handled the situation with such grace.
“I felt awful for Lauren,” Williams said. “To arrive on campus ready to train and then get shut down 35 days, that’s hard for any athlete. I felt awful that happened to that young lady. But her attitude was so mature and so good during that time. I’m really proud of her for that.
“I told her, I can’t imagine what I’d be like. I’d be a grumpy grizzly bear. That’s the thing about Lauren. First of all, she’s a wonderful teammate and her attitude is always upbeat, always positive. It’s challenged her mental toughness, I’m sure, but she’s prevailed.”
Since returning to practice and class, Brocke has been tested four additional times, all of them negative. Naturally, she has made friends with the nurse who administers the test.
And each time, Brocke gets nervous waiting for the results.
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