List of college sports eliminated due to coronavirus-related budget cuts

With revenues at Division I colleges across America plummeting due to the lack of an NCAA Tournament this year, and the potential of a limited or shorter football season in 2020, schools across America are beginning to cut some of their non-revenue teams, or “Olympic sports” in industry parlance.

We’ll keep a list of Division I collegiate teams that won’t be returning after the Covid-19 crisis is over here, with some details on each.

Old Dominion Wrestling

The Monarchs have ended their program after 63 seasons. Despite having 23 All-Americans in team history, they were the only school in Conference USA competing in wrestling, and were in the Mid-American Conference for this sport only.

Cincinnati Men’s Soccer

UC had played soccer since 1973. The Bearcats were 5-11-1 in the American Conference last season, and leaves the league with just six active teams.

FIU Men’s Track

This was part of a larger purge that included the furlough of 22 athletic department employees and athletic director Pete Garcia deferring his salary for a year.

Akron Men’s Cross Country, Men’s Golf, and Women’s Tennis

Bowling Green Baseball

Furman baseball and men’s lacrosse

Wisconsin Green-Bay men’s tennis and women’s tennis

Cutting both programs is expected to save $330,000 in operations expenditures and tuition.

Central Michigan men’s indoor track and outdoor track

The Chippewas will also release two full-time assistant coaches, and 36 total athletes will be affected by the change.

East Carolina men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s swimming and diving

A school that had 20 NCAA sports, which was the most in the American Conference, gets much closer to in line with the rest of their league. 68 student-athlete’s and nine coaches are affected.

Alabama-Huntsville men’s ice hockey

The Chargers were just 54-230-22 since 2011, and with seven teams leaving the Western Collegiate Hockey Association after next season, a move makes sense. UAH also dropped their D2 men’s and women’s tennis teams.

Winthrop men’s and women’s tennis

The Eagles had total operating expenses of $813,000 for both programs. The women had won 21 conference titles, and the men were the Big South representative in the NCAA Tournament last in 2015.

UConn men’s cross-country, men’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, women’s rowing

The Huskies are looking to save at least $10 million per year over the next three years. It might have been worse, but alumni from the golf and track teams combined to raise $2 million to save their respective programs.

Boise State baseball, women’s swimming and diving

The Broncos are expected to save about $3 million from the changes. The baseball team had only been re-constituted at the beginning of the 2019 season after a 39-year absence, and 14 games later the program is shut down again.

Stanford men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling

This is the biggest stunner of them all. The most successful intercollegiate athletics program of the last 25 years is cutting 11 of their 36 varsity sports. The Cardinal have won the Learfield Directors Cup every year for the past 25 years.

Dartmouth men’s and women’s golf, men’s lightweight rowing and men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs

The Big Green also closed a university-owned country club that was projected to lose $1 million per year. The cuts will decrease incoming student-athlete head count by 10%, which was requested by the administration.

George Washington men’s indoor track, men’s tennis and women’s water polo

GW also canceled the non-NCAA sports of men’s rowing, sailing, men’s and women’s squash to go from 27 to 20 varsity teams.