@GKUnion technically, Trinity has said “We will have significantly fewer, if any, competitions in the fall, but we are aiming for physically distanced practices for in- and out-of-season sports and activities to engage our athletes.”
https://www.trincoll.edu/reopening/
https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2020/06/schools-call-it-off-for-fall
Just saw this (sorry if it’s a repost): https://www.boston.com/sports/college-sports/2020/07/03/umass-dartmouth-cuts-8-athletic-teams-not-virus-related
Not sure if it was mentioned upthread but at Uconn Women’s Rowing dropped and the coach found out about 24 hours before the announcement, mens cross country, in addition to swimming. Mens golf raided 900k and was spared as well as men’s track and field raised 1.5 million and was spared, the cut sports were given one year but if they are cancelled this year I assume they would just shut down.
I just read that Stanford is cutting several varsity sports including fencing, rowing (mens and women’s lightweight), men’s volleyball, sailing, squash, wrestling and synchronized swimming. Financial stain due to Covid was cited.
@mamom2018 I was surprised to read that Stanford was carrying 36 sports! This part seems key:
“The financial model supporting 36 varsity sports is not sustainable. The average Division I athletics program sponsors 18 varsity sports. In fact, only one university at the Division I FBS level sponsored more varsity sports than Stanford prior to this change, and that institution does so with a significantly larger budget.”
I agree! I just counted and my D20s school (Big 10) has 23 varsity sports. Such a shame though, but club sports can be very competitive too.
@mamom2018 I just checked all the schools on my son’s list too. One is in the ACC and has 25 sports (12 men’s, 13 women’s).
My daughter’s ACC school has 26 (14 women’s, 12 men’s). Harvard has the most of any D1 in the country at 40 (20 women’s, 20 men’s). I’m very surprised by Stanford’s decision to have men’s volleyball as one of the 11 sports they will drop. It is one of the top ranked programs in the country.
No Ivy League sports in fall 2020. Whether any of those will be pushed to spring tbd. Winter sports still possible but nothing before Jan 1. Teams are being informed today, official announcement coming later.
Given the title IX implications, I am very surprised by Stanford’s decision to drop field hockey. It balances out a lot of football scholarships.
This article gives an interesting perspective on sports at elite colleges:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/10/college-sports-benefits-white-students/573688/
According to twitter (can’t link but you can search Nicole Auerbach) the Big 10 is going to announce conference only for football.
Dartmouth the latest with cuts:
“In an email to the Dartmouth community, college President Phil Hanlon said the Ivy League school was cutting the men’s lightweight crew, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs immediately, reducing the school’s varsity lineup to 30 teams. The school closed the century-old golf course on Route 10 north of downtown Hanover in March as part of a campus-wide response to the pandemic.“
But so do the other women’s sports that Stanford fully funds for scholarships - gymnastics, rowing, lacrosse. I was surprised by men’s volleyball because there are west coast schools with teams, but most of the other ones either didn’t have NCAA championships in that sport or other PAC 12 schools don’t sponsor teams in those sports. There aren’t enough field hockey teams on the west coast so the team has to travel far to find competition. $$$ travel costs plus time out of school for players.
Now that’s huge, if true.
The statement reads that if there’s a Fall season, then all B1G sports will be conference only. Wow.
https://bigten.org/news/2020/7/9/big-ten-statement-on-2020-21-fall-season.aspx
The most surprising one to me also was Stanford men’s volleyball. There are so very few men’s D1 programs already , and now this cut of a major program.
Press release is already out:
https://bigten.org/news/2020/7/9/big-ten-statement-on-2020-21-fall-season.aspx
Pac 12 rumored to follow, also per Nicole Auerbach
Oh no -we know people in Dartmouth’s swimming programs. How devastating.
Maybe colleges are taking this COVID-19 opportunity to clean house. After Operation Varsity Blues, Harvard fired their fencing coach for corruption and retired the athletic director. Yale replaced their athletic director during FBI’s ongoing investigation of the soccer coach before the announcement of OVB indictments. Shortly after, Yale forcely retired their fencing coach of 49 years. Maybe the more niche the sport, the easier it was for corruption to take place. Don’t know enough about fencing, but those kids always act more privileged and better than everyone else because they play “physical chess”. According to NCAA and Ivy League records, Stanford was always at the bottom 10 in NCAA and Brown at the perpetual bottom of the Ivy. Dartmouth never had fencing.
COVID-19 is the perfect excuse/reason to get rid of under-performers, some might even be corrupt. It is Div1 after all.