Update: Stick It Media tells that the programs are “de-funded effective upon completion of the upcoming 2011 season”. … Does that mean they could self-fund for 2012?
… The campus will honor existing scholarship … for those student athletes whose teams have been eliminated, and the campus will support students wishing to transfer to other schools to compete. …
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Both Men and Women’s teams.
UC Berkeley will eliminate its baseball, men’s and women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse teams after this year and will stop fully funding the national-champion men’s rugby team.
The move, announced today, is part of the school’s attempt to trim a nearly $13 million athletics-department deficit. The cuts will save $4 million in 2011-12, the school said.
The decision will affect 163 athletes, and 13 coaches will lose their jobs. University leaders hope to lower the department deficit to $5 million by 2014, …
read more – Matt Krupnick
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