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Post by shooter on Apr 14, 2020 21:45:12 GMT -5
UPDATED 2/11/21
programs get cut all the time, and schools have been closing their doors for a few years now, but I'm keeping a running tally of what's been happening since the virus hit. So far, and there is surely much more to come:
**SEE PAGE 7 FOR CANCELLED FALL SPORTS SEASONS**
-Division I-
Old Dominion cut wrestling
Cincinnati cut men's soccer
Green Bay cut m/w tennis, now at D1 minimum 6 men's sports
FIU cut men's indoor track & field, now at D1 minimum 6 men's sports
Akron cut men's golf, men's cross country and women's tennis
Bowling Green cut baseball, now at D1 minimum 6 men's sports **REINSTATED 6/2/20**
Furman cut baseball and men's lacrosse
Central Michigan cut men's indoor and outdoor track & field, now at FBS minimum 16 sports, but 5 men's sports is below D1 minimum.
East Carolina cut men's/w tennis and men's/w swimming & diving, now at FBS minimum 16 sports **WSWIM & WTEN reinstated 1/7/21**
Appalachian State cut men's soccer, men's tennis and men's indoor track & field
Brown drops 11 8 6 sports to club status: men's/w fencing **WOMEN'S FENCING REINSTATED 9/18/20**, m/w golf, women's skiing, m/w squash, equestrian **REINSTATED 9/18/20**, men's cross country, men's indoor/outdoor track & field **REINSTATED 6/10/20**
Wright State cuts m/w tennis and softball, now 3 sports below D1 minimum, needs to ask NCAA for waiver.
Hampton cuts men's and women's golf
Arkansas-Pine Bluff suspends men's and women's tennis for 2020-21 school year, to return in 2021-22? Maybe, maybe not.
Winthrop cuts men's and women's tennis
Southern Utah cuts men's and women's tennis
Connecticut drops men's cross country, men's swimming/diving, men's tennis and women's rowing
Northern Colorado cuts men's and women's tennis
Western Illinois suspends drops m/w swimming & diving, to return in 2021-22? See UAPB above. CUT 12/18/20
Chicago State cuts baseball, replaces it with men's soccer to avoid minimum sport noncompliance.
Boise State cuts baseball and women's swimming & diving
Dartmouth cuts m/w swimming & diving, m/w golf and men's lightweight rowing **REINSTATED 1/29/21**
Maryland-Eastern Shore suspends/cuts women's tennis
EFFECTIVE 2021-22
Stanford cuts m/w fencing, field hockey, women's lightweight rowing, men's rowing, co-ed/women's sailing, squash, synchronized swim, men's volleyball, wrestling
George Washington cuts co-ed sailing, m/w squash, men's rowing, men's tennis, men's indoor track & field and women's water polo
Iowa cuts men's gymnastics, men's tennis, men's and women's swimming/diving **WSWIM restored by court order 12/23/20
William & Mary cuts men's/w gymnastics, men's indoor/outdoor track & field, men's/w swimming & diving, volleyball **WGYM/WSWIM/VB reinstated 10/19/20, men's teams reinstated 11/5/20**
Minnesota cuts men's tennis, men's gymnastics, men's indoor/outdoor track & field **MOTF reinstated by Board of Regents**
La Salle cuts baseball, softball, volleyball, men's swimming/diving, men's water polo, m/w tennis
Fresno State cuts men's tennis, wrestling and women's lacrosse; now at FBS minimum 6 men's sports
Michigan State cuts m/w swimming & diving
Clemson cuts men's cross country, men's indoor and outdoor track & field; now at FBS minimum 16 sports
San Diego State cuts women's rowing
McNeese cuts men's and women's golf
North Carolina Central cuts baseball
-Division II-
Alabama-Huntsville cuts m/w tennis and men's ice hockey (Division I) **hockey saved for at least 2020-21.**
Concord (Concord, W.V.) cuts men's and women's tennis
Concordia Portland (Portland, Ore.) closes
Fayetteville State (Fayetteville, N.C.) cuts women's tennis
Florida Tech (Melbourne, Fla.) cuts football
Holy Family (Philadelphia, Pa.) cuts women's tennis
Lincoln (Jefferson City, Mo.) cuts women's bowling (Division I)
New York Tech (Old Westbury, N.Y.) closes down athletic department for at least 2 years (14 varsity sports)
Notre Dame College (South Euclid, Ohio) cuts women's tennis
Notre Dame de Namur (Belmont, Calif.) won't enroll new students, discontinues varsity athletics, plans to close for good in Spring 2021
Nova Southeastern (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) cuts women's rowing
Roberts Wesleyan (Rochester, N.Y.) cuts m/w tennis and men's golf
Rollins (Winter Park, Fla.) cuts m/w cross country
Seattle Pacific cuts women's gymnastics (Division I)
Sonoma State (Rohnert Park, Calif.) cuts m/w tennis, women's water polo - now at D2 minimum 4 men's sports
Staten Island cuts men's and women's tennis
St. Edward's (Austin, Texas) cuts men's soccer, m/w golf, m/w tennis - now at the D2 minimum 10 sports
Tiffin (Tiffin, Ohio) cuts m/w equestrian, m/w swimming & diving
UNC Pembroke suspends (cuts) women's golf for at least 2 years **REINSTATED 1/20/21**
Urbana (Urbana, Ohio) closes
EFFECTIVE 2021-22
Alaska-Anchorage cuts men's ice hockey (Division I) and women's gymnastics (Division I) men's and women's skiing (one NCAA division) (cutting alpine, keeping nordic, by NCAA definition this is only cutting a discipline, not a full sport/team) **SKIING REINSTATED 1/15/21**
Oklahoma Baptist (Shawnee, Okla.) cuts men's golf, men's soccer, women's lacrosse, m/w swimming & diving, m/w tennis
Missouri S&T (Rolla, Mo.) cutting men's and women's golf
Azusa Pacific (Azusa, Calif.) cuts football
Concordia New York (Bronxville, N.Y.) closes, selling campus to Iona
-Division III-
MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Ill.) closes
Pine Manor College (Brookline, Mass.) merged into BC **UPDATE: PMC will sponsor sports through 2020-21 and then discontinue.** **9/20 update: PMC closes down athletics permanently.**
Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio) cuts women's rowing
Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.) cuts m/w golf & m/w tennis **golf programs restored through major donor gift**
Elmira College (Elmira, N.Y.) cuts m/w cross country (also dropped women's golf, but that team had not competed since 2017-18 anyway.)
Russell Sage College (Albany, N.Y.) cuts men's tennis (non-COVID, also adding baseball, women's golf and esports in 2021-22.)
Delaware Valley University (Doylestown, Pa.) cuts m/w tennis
Becker College (Worcester, Mass.) cuts field hockey and men's lacrosse
Greenville College (Greenville, Ill.) cuts men's volleyball
Johnson & Wales (Denver, Colo. campus) to close in summer '21, athletics discontinued immediately.
Fontbonne University (St. Louis, Mo.) cuts men's and women's tennis
Blackburn College (Carlinville, Ill.) cuts men's and women's tennis - MTEN was 1st year program that never actually played a match.
Centenary College (Shreveport, La.) drops men's and women's tennis
Illinois College (Jacksonville, Ill.) cuts men's volleyball (would have began play spring '21)
UMass Dartmouth (Dartmouth, Mass.) cuts men's golf, men's/women's tennis, men's/women's swimming & diving, men's lacrosse, coed sailing, equestrian
Alfred State (Alfred, N.Y.) cuts men's lacrosse and women's equestrian
Johnson & Wales (Providence, R.I. campus) cuts m/w cross country, m/w golf, m/w tennis and men's volleyball
Maine Maritime Academy (Castine, Maine) cuts football
North Park University (Chicago, Ill.) cuts women's rowing
Rutgers-Newark (Newark, N.J.) cuts men's and women's tennis
SUNY Morrisville cuts men's golf
Keuka (Keuka Park, N.Y.) cuts men's volleyball, m/w cross country and m/w golf
Occidental (Los Angeles, Calif.) cuts football
LaGrange (Ga.) cuts women's lacrosse
Mount Holyoke College (Holyoke, Mass.) cuts golf (women's college)
EFFECTIVE 2021-22
Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Va.) cuts men's and women's golf
Monmouth College (Monmouth, Ill.) cuts men's and women's water polo
Houghton College (Houghton, N.Y.) cuts men's and women's lacrosse
Austin College (Sherman, Texas) cut men's and women's cross country and track
-NAIA-
Taylor University (Upland, Ind.) drops m/w tennis, women's lacrosse (WLAX 1st year program, only played 3 games ever)
Johnson & Wales (Miami, Fla. campus) to close in summer '21, athletics fate for 2020-21 unknown discontinued immediately.
University of Providence (Great Falls, Mont.) drops women's ice hockey
Briar Cliff University (Sioux City, Iowa) cuts men's volleyball
-NJCAA-
Eastern Gateway CC (Steubenville, Ohio) discontinues varsity athletics (just baseball)
Mercyhurst North East (North East, Pa.) closes 1 year ahead of schedule (would have ended Summer '21)
Spartanburg Methodist College (Spartanburg, S.C.) drops m/w tennis and wrestling
Broward College (Davie, Fla.) discontinues varsity athletics (8 sports)
Gillette College (Gillette, Wyo.) discontinues varsity athletics (5 sports)
Sheridan College (Sheridan, Wyo.) discontinues varsity athletics (6 sports)
-Other-
Holy Family College (Manitowoc, Wis.) closes
Nebraska Christian College closes
Maine-Machias discontinues varsity athletics (MBB, WBB, MSOC, WSOC, VB)
Unity College (Unity, Maine) to divest itself of physical campus (MBB, WBB, MSOC, WSOC, MXC, WXC, MOTF, WOTF, VB)
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Post by fox94 on Apr 15, 2020 17:41:03 GMT -5
What’s next Ohio State cutting football?
Duke cutting MBB?
I didn’t think so.
Those are the professional sports.
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Post by shooter on Apr 18, 2020 11:25:21 GMT -5
the official vote and announcement will be on Monday, but the chancellor of the Vermont State College System has recommended the immediate closure of both campuses (Johnson and Lyndon) of the recently merged Northern Vermont University as well as the residential Randolph campus of Vermont Tech. Tech's satellite campus in the Burlington suburbs will stay open and take on some but not all of Randolph's programming. The resources of NVU-Johnson and NVU-Lyndon are to be redirected to Castleton University, which would become the only fully 4-year university in the system.
Johnson and Lyndon are/were NCAA Division III; Vermont Tech only had 8 sports and was a member of the USCAA.
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Post by shooter on Apr 21, 2020 15:33:33 GMT -5
Division II Urbana University (Urbana, Ohio) is closing at the end of the semester. Owned and operated since 2014 by Franklin University, Franklin no longer has the ability to subsidize UU's operations. They had 17 varsity sports including football with 2 new teams slated to start in 2020-21.
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Post by oldfox on Apr 21, 2020 16:44:59 GMT -5
Division II Urbana University (Urbana, Ohio) is closing at the end of the semester. Owned and operated since 2014 by Franklin University, Franklin no longer has the ability to subsidize UU's operations. They had 17 varsity sports including football with 2 new teams slated to start in 2020-21. Urbana is where Kristina Danella unexpectedly got her first head coaching job when the head coach left immediately prior to the start of the season. |
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Post by shooter on Apr 24, 2020 13:23:03 GMT -5
the official vote and announcement will be on Monday, but the chancellor of the Vermont State College System has recommended the immediate closure of both campuses (Johnson and Lyndon) of the recently merged Northern Vermont University as well as the residential Randolph campus of Vermont Tech. Tech's satellite campus in the Burlington suburbs will stay open and take on some but not all of Randolph's programming. The resources of NVU-Johnson and NVU-Lyndon are to be redirected to Castleton University, which would become the only fully 4-year university in the system. Johnson and Lyndon are/were NCAA Division III; Vermont Tech only had 8 sports and was a member of the USCAA. these closures are no longer happening, at least not right now, due to tremendous backlash and negative response to the chancellor's plan. He still says the system is unsustainable without some form of consolidation. Adding today that Green Bay, one of WBB's 2019-20 OOC opponents, has dropped men's and women's tennis. Oh yeah, and furloughing 227 employees. |
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Post by shooter on Apr 29, 2020 10:36:26 GMT -5
last week Sonoma State, a D2 in Northern California, pulled the plug on both tennis teams and women's water polo. Only affected a grand total of about 20 students and none of the 3 sports had existed at the school for more than 17 seasons, but still a bummer. Marist used to play SSU in water polo from time to time when they would travel out there, including a 14-3 win over the Seawolves in January 2019.
list updated.
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Post by shooter on Apr 30, 2020 21:13:32 GMT -5
LIU announced they're adding men's ice hockey, so at least someone is swimming upstream with some good news! Good for them.
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Post by shooter on May 4, 2020 20:59:35 GMT -5
Holy Family College (Manitowoc, Wis.) is closing down this summer. Sports-wise they were a dual member of the NAIA and USCAA. The school was actually known as Silver Lake College for nearly 50 years before changing its name just last September.
Note this is not the D2 school in Philadelphia that WBB played in an exhibition game a couple years ago, that's Holy Family University.
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Post by shooter on May 11, 2020 20:49:40 GMT -5
Florida Tech (NCAA Division II) drops football. Despite only fielding a team for 7 seasons, the Panthers made the NCAA playoffs twice (2016, 2018).
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Post by shooter on May 12, 2020 20:14:51 GMT -5
an entire NCAA Division II league, the CCAA, has called off fall sports already. All of its members (besides UCSD, which is moving to Division I on July 1) are in the California State University System, which will be online only for the fall semester. goccaa.org/news/2020/5/12/general-ccaa-suspends-ncaa-competition-for-fall-2020.aspxA few D1 conferences such as the Big South and Big Sky have altered certain sport schedules and conference tournament sizes, but none so dramatic as the MAC which will be axing its conference tournaments in 9 sports for the next 4 years and cutting the hoops tourney fields from 12 teams to 8. The MAAC posted a story on its website about principles and procedures for returning to play, but has yet to say anything concrete. |
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Post by rfalum on May 12, 2020 21:22:47 GMT -5
Very hard for me to see how fall sports proceed, especially ones that involve a lot of travel like football. The drumroll of schools maintaining online education for the fall is only going to increase and once schools in the northeast start doing it, I imagine Marist/the MAAC will go that route as well. I think some of the smaller schools are going to try to hold out as long as they can though because that lack of financial income could make them go under entirely.
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