September 5, 2003

U. of Minnesota-Morris Drops Men's and Women's Wrestling

So who needs a women's wrestling team anyway?

Not the University of Minnesota at Morris, apparently. The first college in the country to sponsor women's wrestling as a varsity sport is dropping the squad, along with the men's wrestling team, after this academic year. A women's swimming team will be added in 2004-5.

Samuel Schuman, the chancellor, said the wrestling teams graduated only about 30 to 40 percent of their athletes, about half the proportion of other Morris students

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