WSU Track Team Cut

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COMMENTARY: ‘This is never what college sports were meant to be’

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The Washington State track and field team was about to be cut in half and its coach was out of a job.

WSU athletic director Anne McCoy said the program would shift to a “distance- first approach” The move was to cut field events such as throwing and pole vaulting and significantly scaling back sprints and hurdles.

The optics of a 10-minute Zoom meeting, in which 18-24-year-olds learn that their athletic pursuits will no longer be supported by WSU , followed by little communication or dialogue, could have been easily avoided.

Track and field was the first WSU sport affected.

It almost certainly won’t be the last.

College sports may never be the same again and no one should be spinning it into a positive or spending any energy not attempting to fix what is clearly broken.

“College sports are meant to build a spirit and community within the universities,” Brooke Lyons said.

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