Unfortunately, UNCG is not the only college with its wrestling program in trouble.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha, which just won its 6th NCAA D2 National Championship in the last 8 years.
The school is moving from D2 to D1 and wants to invest more resources in basketball.
University of Sious Falls is migrating from NAIA to D2 and doesn't believe the program is sufficiently funded to compete in the new conference.
The National Wrestling Coaches Association(NWCA) is actively pursuing strategies to help 4 other programs in California. UC Davis and Fresno State, whose programs were recently dropped and Cal State Backersfield and Fullterton whose progams are in jeopardy.
Update
Liberty wrestling drops their program and moves to the club level.
They state the reasons being 100% Title IX compliance issues. Despite the school being in complience with prong 2 of the Title IX laws, they voted to move within prong 1 by eliminating the wrestling program.
click here for interviews with the Director of Athletics and the Associate Athletic Director/SWA. As well as an interview with one of the 133lb wrestlers on the team
*Division III Morrisville State cuts wrestling program, citing 'decline' in high school numbers and lack of conference affiliation*
Morrisville State College will be discontinuing its sponsorship of men’s wrestling as an intercollegiate sport effective the 2011-2012 academic year, according to Greg Carroll, the college’s director of athletics.
Carroll said the decision to drop wrestling came after careful consideration of all aspects of the sport’s place within the colleges’ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Department. “We have seen a general decline in the popularity of wrestling at the high school level, and as a result colleges at all levels have been forced to look at the sport’s place in their own programs,” he said.
“Many of those schools who were traditional rivals of Morrisville State in years past have discontinued their programs and we have found it difficult to transition the sport to the four-year level,” Carroll said.
Since Morrisville State’s main conference affiliation does not sponsor wrestling (North Eastern Athletic Conference), the Mustangs were a member of the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference along with RIT, Brockport, Cortland, Oneonta, Ithaca, Lycoming, and Messiah College.
Morrisville State will continue to offer football, soccer, cross country, ice hockey, basketball and lacrosse for men at the intercollegiate level, fielding a total of 15 sports for the athletics program
The University of Nebraska at Omaha, which just won its 6th NCAA D2 National Championship in the last 8 years.
The school is moving from D2 to D1 and wants to invest more resources in basketball.
University of Sious Falls is migrating from NAIA to D2 and doesn't believe the program is sufficiently funded to compete in the new conference.
The National Wrestling Coaches Association(NWCA) is actively pursuing strategies to help 4 other programs in California. UC Davis and Fresno State, whose programs were recently dropped and Cal State Backersfield and Fullterton whose progams are in jeopardy.
Update
Liberty wrestling drops their program and moves to the club level.
They state the reasons being 100% Title IX compliance issues. Despite the school being in complience with prong 2 of the Title IX laws, they voted to move within prong 1 by eliminating the wrestling program.
click here for interviews with the Director of Athletics and the Associate Athletic Director/SWA. As well as an interview with one of the 133lb wrestlers on the team
*Division III Morrisville State cuts wrestling program, citing 'decline' in high school numbers and lack of conference affiliation*
Morrisville State College will be discontinuing its sponsorship of men’s wrestling as an intercollegiate sport effective the 2011-2012 academic year, according to Greg Carroll, the college’s director of athletics.
Carroll said the decision to drop wrestling came after careful consideration of all aspects of the sport’s place within the colleges’ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Department. “We have seen a general decline in the popularity of wrestling at the high school level, and as a result colleges at all levels have been forced to look at the sport’s place in their own programs,” he said.
“Many of those schools who were traditional rivals of Morrisville State in years past have discontinued their programs and we have found it difficult to transition the sport to the four-year level,” Carroll said.
Since Morrisville State’s main conference affiliation does not sponsor wrestling (North Eastern Athletic Conference), the Mustangs were a member of the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference along with RIT, Brockport, Cortland, Oneonta, Ithaca, Lycoming, and Messiah College.
Morrisville State will continue to offer football, soccer, cross country, ice hockey, basketball and lacrosse for men at the intercollegiate level, fielding a total of 15 sports for the athletics program
