Name the college that sponsored 41 varsity sports this year, tying with Harvard for most in the country. The answer is about the last school you’d think of: math and science powerhouse MIT, the university with perhaps the brainiest — and nerdiest — reputation in America.
The Engineers shared the honor with their bigger, wealthier neighbor in Cambridge, Mass., and have long competed in everything from football to fencing, softball to squash.
That’s going to change, though.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Thursday it is eliminating eight teams because of the sputtering economy. Gone are men’s and women’s hockey, men’s and women’s gymnastics, skiing, golf, pistol shooting and wrestling.
MIT joins the list of colleges dropping sports to counteract budget deficits. Northern Iowa and Vermont are nixing baseball. Women’s volleyball and men’s soccer are done at Maine; men’s track and women’s swimming will be out at Pepperdine.
The cuts leave athletes scrambling to figure out what to do with the years they expected to be filled with practices and games.
MIT students say the same intensity that drives them to embrace the school’s brutal academics makes them want to compete in sports at the highest level they can.
The Engineers shared the honor with their bigger, wealthier neighbor in Cambridge, Mass., and have long competed in everything from football to fencing, softball to squash.
That’s going to change, though.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Thursday it is eliminating eight teams because of the sputtering economy. Gone are men’s and women’s hockey, men’s and women’s gymnastics, skiing, golf, pistol shooting and wrestling.
MIT joins the list of colleges dropping sports to counteract budget deficits. Northern Iowa and Vermont are nixing baseball. Women’s volleyball and men’s soccer are done at Maine; men’s track and women’s swimming will be out at Pepperdine.
The cuts leave athletes scrambling to figure out what to do with the years they expected to be filled with practices and games.
MIT students say the same intensity that drives them to embrace the school’s brutal academics makes them want to compete in sports at the highest level they can.
by the associated press
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