The Ivy League’s indecision about spring sports and the looming specter of another lost season has prompted a petition from the Brown men’s and women’s lacrosse teams.

The joint change.org petition uses the hashtag #LetTheLeaguePlay and has nearly 3,500 signatures at the time of this writing. In a letter addressed to Ivy League executive director Robin Harris and posted on Instagram, the teams noted that every Division I conference except the Ivy League is currently playing sports and that similarly elite academic institutions like Duke, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins have found ways to safely resume competition.

“We urge you to reconsider the mental well-being of the Ivy League’s student-athletes,” the letter reads. “Athletes, namely lacrosse, have served as our outlet, consistently supporting us in times of distress.”

The Ivy League fallout started last year with a wave of transfers who left their schools when the league declared it would not accommodate fifth-year players despite the extra eligibility afforded by the NCAA and continued with the preemptive decision by many Princeton men’s and women’s lacrosse players to take leave from the university.

The Ivy League, which canceled winter sports, sent an email to all spring sports student-athletes and coaches last week stating that “there must be significant changes in the state of the pandemic before competition becomes feasible.” A decision on spring sports is expected sometime in February.