It’s my understanding that NCAA Div 3 sports at UCSC are struggling for funding. Two Years left. The students were to vote next month on a change and additional fee structure for funding athletics, but the administration pulled the scheduled student vote. Sure hope they get this ironed out.
UPDATE:It was recently announced ,that what we were told about athletics, has been taken off the table. Our Chancellor has decided that we do not have a guaranteed 2 years of Athletics, as announced earlier. There is an “Opinion Poll” during the student voting period, in 5 weeks, that is essentially a vote on athletics. The Chancellor is saying that if the students don’t vote to support athletics, then next year is the last year and the entire department will be cut-All sports!!! If the opinion poll is positive, then the chancellor will let the students vote on a referendum, next year, that must pass at 66% , which is highly unlikely. We are being set up.
We are beginning to organize, ASAP, to fight this and believe we will win in the long run, but all athletes need to take this into consideration. Two months ago I was very encouraged that we were headed in the right direction, before the Chancellor made this decision.
If UCSC is your first choice, this is what I recommend. You need to keep your options open. Send in your intent to register , “ITR” , to keep you option open to attend UCSC when/if we straighten this mess out, and keep you option open for your second choice. Once we know more you can make your final decision.
It never seems to be easy, but things are at a tipping point and we will know a lot more by the middle of May. I am asking all our recruits to try and hang on until then.
All our coaches are keeping the faith, and once we move forward, we should never have to deal with this again.