But when the time came to start planning for practices, there were just too many unanswered questions. On July 16, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference officially canceled the fall sports season. You just feel horrible for your student athletes, Jenkins said. Since the majority of college athletic programs have canceled their volleyball season, the possibility still remains of conference teams playing a shortened season this spring. It would basically be a year and a half if we had to wait until the fall of 2021.