{"id":114086,"date":"2014-11-10T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=114086"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:58:48","slug":"passing-two-legends-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passing-two-legends-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of Two Legends on The Week That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX – It started as a possibility, then 24 hours later, the news came that the College of Charleston was cutting swimming and diving from its athletics program. The athletic director, Joe Hull, published a letter announcing the end of the teams after this season, adding that the pool the teams use would also be closed at the end of the school year. Hull wrote that the Stern Center pool was in need of major repairs and would cost more than $1 million to do, insinuating that the cost of updating the pool was the major reason for cutting the teams. The Division I team was in Columbia, South Carolina, on the day the announcement was made, competing in a tri-meet against the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University. No matter whether it\u2019s financial or otherwise, we never like reporting on the slashing of collegiate swimming and diving, and we hope the athletes affected by this news the best as they try to figure out their next steps.<\/p>\n