{"id":437863,"date":"2020-06-29T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=437863"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:07:20","slug":"the-week-that-was-university-of-connecticut-to-cut-mens-swimming-and-diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-university-of-connecticut-to-cut-mens-swimming-and-diving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was: University of Connecticut to Cut Men’s Swimming and Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take hold of most of the world, many colleges in the United States have had to make financial adjustments to lessen the fallouts from the pandemic. The University of Connecticut had to cut men’s swimming and diving this week in order to erase a $10 million deficit brought on by the disease. UConn was the second school in the American Athletic Conference to cut men’s swimming and diving after East Carolina did so a few weeks ago as well.<\/p>\n

In positive news,\u00a0Torri Huske<\/strong>, one of the top high school recruits in the class of 2021, verbally committed to Stanford on Monday for the fall of 2021. She will be a huge boost to the Cardinal, who won three NCAA titles from 2017 – 2019, but were unable to continue that into 2020 with the COVID cancellations.<\/p>\n

Read below the five biggest stories in The Week That Was sponsored by\u00a0Suitmate<\/a>.<\/p>\n