May 28, 2004

Wrestling Advocates Lose Another Round in Challenge to Title IX

By VINCENT KIERNAN

A federal appeals court has dismissed a challenge by groups representing coaches, athletes, and alumni of collegiate wrestling programs to federal rules on gender equity in college sports.

The court ruled this month that the groups had failed to prove that colleges had eliminated or reduced their athletics programs for men because of an Education Department policy, put in place in 1979 and clarified in 1996, that set forth how the department planned to enforce Title IX of the Education

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