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The Daily OrangeGross says swimming cuts a financial decision
Women's hockey will replace swimming in 2008
By Matt Gelb
Posted: 6/5/07, 12:46 AM EST Section: Sports
Gross said the search for a women's hockey coach will begin immediately.
A determination has not yet been made where the team will play. The two rinks in the Syracuse area are Tennity Ice Pavilion on South Campus and War Memorial Arena in the city, where the Syracuse Crunch minor league hockey team plays.
Syracuse has already begun conversations with hockey conferences. Calls to three Northeast women's college hockey conferences-the Eastern College Athletic Conference, Hockey East, College Hockey America, conferences Syracuse might join-were not returned.
Gross estimated the women's hockey team would carry 32 players with 18 scholarships to be dispersed. Last season, the SU swimming program comprised 31 members-18 on the men's team and 13 on the women's. The women's team did not use its full allotment of 14 scholarships.
The 2007-08 season will be the 89th and final season for men's swimming, which started competition in 1915. The women's program has competed at the NCAA level since the 1976-77 season.
"We're going to do anything we can to save it, but I don't know how much can be done," Ryan Corcoran, a rising sophomore on the men's team, said early Friday.
Lou Walker has been the coach of the women's program since its inception 31 years ago and the men's since 1979.
"This is certainly disappointing and sad news," Walker said in a statement released by the Syracuse athletic department. "This is disappointing for our current student-athletes who after the 2007-08 season will lose their opportunity to represent their University. This is a disappointing day for our alums who take great pride in the years they competed for the Orange and the continued relationship that they have through following the current team. This is a sad day for the Walker family, who has dedicated their lives to Syracuse University and the swimming and diving program."
Corcoran said he talked to an apologetic Walker for the first time Friday morning.
A determination has not yet been made where the team will play. The two rinks in the Syracuse area are Tennity Ice Pavilion on South Campus and War Memorial Arena in the city, where the Syracuse Crunch minor league hockey team plays.
Syracuse has already begun conversations with hockey conferences. Calls to three Northeast women's college hockey conferences-the Eastern College Athletic Conference, Hockey East, College Hockey America, conferences Syracuse might join-were not returned.
Gross estimated the women's hockey team would carry 32 players with 18 scholarships to be dispersed. Last season, the SU swimming program comprised 31 members-18 on the men's team and 13 on the women's. The women's team did not use its full allotment of 14 scholarships.
The 2007-08 season will be the 89th and final season for men's swimming, which started competition in 1915. The women's program has competed at the NCAA level since the 1976-77 season.
"We're going to do anything we can to save it, but I don't know how much can be done," Ryan Corcoran, a rising sophomore on the men's team, said early Friday.
Lou Walker has been the coach of the women's program since its inception 31 years ago and the men's since 1979.
"This is certainly disappointing and sad news," Walker said in a statement released by the Syracuse athletic department. "This is disappointing for our current student-athletes who after the 2007-08 season will lose their opportunity to represent their University. This is a disappointing day for our alums who take great pride in the years they competed for the Orange and the continued relationship that they have through following the current team. This is a sad day for the Walker family, who has dedicated their lives to Syracuse University and the swimming and diving program."
Corcoran said he talked to an apologetic Walker for the first time Friday morning.
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Robert Kohnken
posted 6/18/07 @ 4:33 PM EST
The Athletic Director does notsay why new facilities for swimming are needed or why the cost is so high. Is he going to build a 50 Meter pool/
Who knows. (Continued…)
Kevin Roberts
posted 8/20/07 @ 2:56 PM EST
Matt Gelb is a noob. I pwn him in Wolfenstein ET every time we play. Get good noob.
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