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Akron drops 3 sports as pandemic inflicts financial pain | Sports

Jacque Colbert by Jacque Colbert
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With its athletic funds being stretched and future funding unsure, Akron dropped three sports activities on Thursday in a cost-cutting transfer necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ohio faculty introduced it’s going to discontinue males’s cross-country and golf and girls’s tennis on the finish of the tutorial 12 months. Akron plans to cut back monetary help to the athletic division by roughly 23% ($4.Four million), painful actions necessitated by the virus outbreak.

“These choices are very tough however they’re essential and needed at the moment,” Akron athletic director Larry Williams stated. “This motion aligns us with our Mid-American Convention friends within the whole variety of sports activities and is a part of the continuing effort to revamp the College to make sure that UA continues to put money into high-demand, high-quality tutorial applications.

“It is a tough day for all of us,” Williams continued. “We’ve devoted student-athletes, coaches and athletics workers who’ve embraced being a Zip and make super contributions to campus life at school, in competitors and in our better neighborhood.”

Akron’s determination will probably be adopted by different faculties attempting to remain afloat financially through the pandemic.

The lack of the three sports activities at Akron impacts 23 male and 9 feminine student-athletes, three coaches and one graduate assistant coach. The varsity will now have 17 sports activities — seven males’s, 10 ladies’s — and the Zips will stay a member of the Mid-American Convention, which earlier this week introduced it’s eliminating postseason tournaments in eight sports activities, together with baseball and softball.

As well as, the MAC is scaling again its postseason basketball tournaments due to the monetary disaster triggered by the coronavirus.

The Southern Convention introduced Thursday it’s going to reduce on faculties qualifying for a number of championships, trim its league baseball collection from three video games to 2 and maintain digital media days for soccer and basketball.

Williams stated the timing of Akron’s announcement was made to permit student-athletes as a lot time as potential to search out new faculties in the event that they wish to proceed of their sports activities.

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