Saw this earlier today (story came out on Tuesday) – Division II Montana State Billings will be dropping both its men’s and women’s programs effective at the end of this year.
Here is the full release that the school put out with the below excerpts pertaining to the tennis program.
“Athletics will see the most visible reductions with the elimination of men’s and women’s tennis. The removal of these sports will mean an annual savings of roughly $230,000 and a complete withdrawal from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tennis is the only sport played by MSUB in that conference – firmly planting the Yellowjackets in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference
“The decision to eliminate tennis was extremely difficult, said Krista Montague, MSUB athletic director. “We have had some solid teams and they are all great student-athletes but the fit isn’t right for the GNAC. We will honor the athletic scholarships to tennis players until the end of their athletic eligibility.
I know that each school has to do what’s right for itself but saving $230K out of a $4.4M budget shortfall is small potatoes. From reading the above part it sounds like getting all athletic programs into the same conference must have been a really big deal and it was great to get out of the RMAC. I guess they have to rationalize it someway.
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