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YSU Athletics to Add Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Lacrosse Teams
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--- Quote from: peteonastick on February 26, 2019, 05:56:08 PM ---I look at YSU as a local university that supports local programs - especially in the olympic and non revenue sports. Please, someone tell me how many men's swimming and women's lacrosse teams there are in the Northeast Ohio area? There are not enough student athletes in those sports to locally support those programs. Wrestling on the other hand is supported by numerous schools in the area with some of the best wrestling in Ohio - besides the Catholic Cleveland schools. Who from this area is going to go support women's lacrosse? Men's swimming? Someone please send me a pic of the crowd at the first home women's lacrosse game and men's swimming meet. If YSU had a wrestling program, I can guarantee it would be supported by local wrestling programs - from youth to high school. Canfield, Austintown, Boardman, Girard, West Branch, Beaver Local, etc...all have top notch wrestling programs. That does not include the rest of the EOWL (Eastern Ohio Wrestling League) that goes from Ashtabula to Lousiville to Wellsville. Those schools alone could supply enough wrestlers to have a program. Title IX has destroyed wrestling programs throughout the country. It has increased women's programs, no doubt, but at the expense of wrestling. Another big mistake by the YSU athletic department that is out of touch with the local area athletes.
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You ever think it's not necessarily about the 'local' recruits? But more so about getting more 'national' and 'international' recruits?
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Again, the point is they wanted to add men's swimming and diving to match with women's swimming and diving. We are the only women's only team in the Horizon League. Next issue? You add a men's team, you HAVE GOT TO OFFSET IT WITH A WOMEN'S SPORT FOR TITLE IX. Lacrosse can use existing facilities so it becomes a relatively now cost to men's swimming. This is NOT about lacrosse vs wrestling, it is about Title IX
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Yes, which is why we wanted women's Lacrosse. You brought up a good point there go guins. There are at least 4 or 5 member schools that do not have S&D (men). I am interested in how many teams are required to stay NCAA sanctioned in Swimming. We lost 2 and picked up one. We do not have S&D or Soccer, which are HL sports. We do have all of the women's sports the conference offers. I noticed that the MAAC, SoCon and several other conferences allow WLAX-membership only. UDM and Central Michigan just joined the SoCon (a new conference for women's lacrosse). It will be interesting either way.
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