DailyIllini: No plans to add more men's varsity sports

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2008-11-12 08:00

Article here. Excerpt:

'But between baseball at Wisconsin, cross country and track and field at Northwestern, and men's soccer and swimming and diving at Illinois, there are many cases throughout the Big Ten where otherwise common sports are absent.

Illinois has been without men's swimming and diving since the 1990s, when the University eliminated it, along with men's fencing, in favor of picking up women's soccer and softball.
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The NCAA has tried to help universities comply with Title IX by creating "emergent sports," which are exclusive to women. An emergent sport is a NCAA-recognized sport that is not part of Division I, II or III. They are a means to test a sport to determine whether it is competitive and appealing.

Women's rowing, ice hockey, water polo and bowling are emergent sports that have already achieved Division I status. Seven Big Ten schools offer at least one of those sports, though Illinois is not among them. There are currently seven emergent sports, the only one offered at a Big Ten school being synchronized swimming at Ohio State.'

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If Title IX was around during the first olympics, Greco Roman wrestling would have never existed.

Whats next? A guy with a 95mph fast ball will lose out on a NCAA scholarship in favor of 'Muffy', the water polo girl?

'We'll meditate, communicate, escalate.

[Bad Brains]

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Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2008-11-18 00:06