The new year is off to a good start for administrators and athletes at California State University at Fresno, which in 2007 battled three separate sex-discrimination lawsuits brought a former athletics official and two former coaches.

The athletics director, Thomas Boeh, announced on Monday that Fresno State was adding two women’s sports teams as part of its long-range plan to maintain compliance with Title IX, the federal gender-equity law. In the 2008-9 season, Mr. Boeh said, Fresno State will reinstate its women’s swimming and diving team, which has not competed since 2004, and add the new sport of women’s lacrosse.

The past six months were rocky for Fresno State as it grappled with a trio of Title IX lawsuits. In early December, a California jury awarded a record $19.1-million to a former women’s basketball coach who had sued the university over alleged sexual discrimination.

In October the university settled another sex-discrimination lawsuit, brought by a former athletics official, for $3.5-million.

And in July a different jury awarded $5.85-million to a former women’s volleyball coach who had alleged sex discrimination, though a judge later reduced that amount to $4.5-million. —Libby Sander