Evan Frondorf ’14, a risk analyst in San Francisco, writes frequently about sports for the magazine. Mark Alden Branch ’86 James Casemore ’24 and his teammates on the lightweight crew moved their rowing machines outside for workouts in the fall. View full image During an uncertain summer for universities across the country, the Ivy League was among the first to provide some clarity. By early July, the conference definitively announced that no athletic competition would take place in the fall semester. On the Yale campus, as the effects of the pandemic continued to ripple across daily life, stadiums went silent and many student-athletes chose to take time off.