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NMSU: In Las Cruces, the New Mexico State volleyball team held a practice session at the Pan American Center on Thursday, becoming the school’s first program to hold an on-campus workout since Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham amended the state’s COVID-Safe Practices for Intercollegiate Sports guidelines this week to allow college teams to practice in state. Both basketball programs are on COVID-19 related pauses, and the Aggies football team begins practice Friday.

TENNIS: In Melbourne, Australia, Paula Badosa, a 23-year-old Spanish player ranked in the top 70 who was forced to quarantine in her hotel room after potentially being exposed to the coronavirus on an Australian Open charter flight, says she tested positive for COVID-19.