GW Cuts 25% of Its Athletic Teams

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A headline that could have only been written by someone in PR.

"University Efforts Streamline GW Athletics"

gwsports.com/news/2020/7/31/general-university-efforts-streamline-gw-athletics.aspx

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Per WaPo:

Four sports that had spanned a combined 328 years at the University of Iowa suffered discontinuation on Friday, trimmed from another athletics budget ailing from the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

In an open letter, the university president and athletic director of a program in an especially stormy year announced the end of the men’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s swimming and men’s tennis programs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. It signaled the end of programs that had begun, respectively, in 1922, 1917, 1974 and 1939, according to Iowa media guides. It happened on the same day some Big Ten football parents, including those of some Iowa players, marched at the Big Ten headquarters in Rosemont, Ill., hoping to restore an autumn football season the conference canceled last week after recommendations from a medical advisory board.

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