Stanford to Cut 11 Varsity Sports at End of Academic Year
- Programs include fencing, squash and synchronized swimming
- ‘This is heartbreaking news to share,’ school officials say
Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Stanford University, one of the richest U.S. colleges, is cutting 11 varsity sports teams at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year in an effort to “create fiscal stability.”
The teams are men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, and men’s volleyball and wrestling, according to a statement Wednesday by the school’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, provost Persis Drell and Bernard Muir, director of athletics.