Vanessa de Jesus and the Duke women’s basketball team have paused all team-related activities indefinitely due to two positive COVID-19 tests.
School officials said they are taking precautionary contact tracing measures among individuals within the travel party.
The Blue Devils’ upcoming contests are against North Carolina State on Dec. 20 and University of North Carolina Wilmington on Dec. 22, and they have all been postponed.
Duke, with Filipina-American freshman player de Jesus, is adhering to the outlined protocols within the Atlantic Coast Conference Medical Advisory Group report.
The Blue Devils currently hold a 3-1 record in the ACC team standings of the 2020 National Collegiate Athletic Association first division, with former US Olympic national women’s cager Kara Lawson in her first year as head coach at Duke.
Lawson, who helped the US women’s quintet win the gold in the Beijing Olympics, recently became the first NCAA Division I Power Five head coach to win her first three games by 25 or more points.
In their previous game last week, De Jesus tallied 11 points for the Duke women’s basketball team, which took a 49-73 loss to second-ranked Louisville on Wednesday evening at the Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.
De Jesus, an 18-year-old Fil-American prospect for the Gilas women’s national team took charge for the Blue Devils as they went on a 7-2 run in the third quarter, and tried to catch up from an 11-point halftime deficit.
A total of three games involving the Blue Devils have been scratched, including Sunday’s encounter at Coral Gables, Florida against Miami.
