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Strip Iowa of NCAA Champs Now! Disregard For Eliminated Programs Grows<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the return of Big Ten football, and the subsequent financial boost that will be realized, the University of Iowa has no intention of retaining<\/a> any of the programs it will cut after the 2020-21 school year. A loss of revenue due to no football season was a primary reason given for the cuts, but now it is clear that the administration was using COVID-19 and the loss of football money as an excuse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Given Iowa’s dishonesty, now is an appropriate time to reiterate the need for the university to lose its hosting privileges of the 2021 NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships. The blatant disregard for the soon-to-be-cut programs should not be rewarded with the privilege of hosting an NCAA championship competition and the money that would be earned as host.<\/em><\/p>\n

The University of Iowa made the decision<\/a> recently to cut its men’s and women’s swim teams at the end of the 2020-21 season. It was the fifth time a Division I school axed its swim team this offseason during the COVID-19 pandemic, following decisions from East Carolina<\/a>,\u00a0Connecticut<\/a>,\u00a0Boise State<\/a> and Dartmouth.<\/a> Iowa became the first power five school to make the decision. William & Mary became a sixth school to eliminate its program in following weeks.<\/p>\n

It was a stunning move for the rest of the NCAA, especially those in the Big Ten family<\/a>, as the Hawkeyes are charter members of the conference that was formed more than 100 years ago. Iowa has produced national champions in Artur Wojdat<\/strong> and\u00a0Rafal Szukala <\/strong>among many others in the 1940s and 50s. The Hawkeyes have one of the top natatoriums in the nation, hosting the 2015 men’s NCAAs, as well as the Big Ten women’s championships in 2020.<\/p>\n

Iowa is set to host the men’s NCAA meet<\/a> this coming season, making the national championships the last meet the Hawkeyes would ever host.<\/p>\n

The meet should never make its way to Iowa City.<\/p>\n

By eliminating its program and, therefore showing disloyalty to the members and coaches of the men’s and women’s swim programs, the university should have its hosting rights pulled. Take away the opportunity for the school to benefit financially, and take away the chance for the school to be the focal point of the sport. Remove the benefits that come with spectators eating and shopping in town. No school that takes a hatchet to a program should be given the chance to host that sport’s biggest college event. It makes no sense.<\/p>\n

It is expected that Iowa will see a number of athletes transfer to other schools, where they will have the opportunity to extend their careers and feel a sense of respect from a new athletic department. Already, Iowa has witnessed an exodus, with Millie Sansome announcing on Friday that she was transferring to the University of Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Iowa swim fans. Photo Courtesy: Taylor Brien<\/p><\/div>\n

The college swimming community is a family, and losing one team is like losing your own. When the decision was made to host the 2021 NCAAs at the University of Iowa<\/a> in the spring of 2017, no one could have foreseen a global pandemic would hold the college swim season hostage, and no one could have foreseen a program as historic as Iowa to be cut with no warning.<\/p>\n

Participating schools should force the organization’s hand into finding another locale for the meet. Simply, tell the NCAA that programs will not compete at a school that has shown complete disrespect to the sport and a fellow program.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

What happens to the facility? The Iowa natatorium has been in use since the summer of 2010 and has been host to Big Ten’s, NCAAs and numerous club championship meets, including Juniors West and Speedo Sectionals. The University of Maryland cut its swim team in 2012<\/a>, but the pool is still in use by Nation’s Capital Swim Club and was even a site for the International Swimming League<\/a>. Having a world class facility on a college campus with no supported swim team does not sit right with the swimming community.<\/p>\n

A petition to save the Hawkeye swim and dive team has been started<\/a> and has circulated around the swimming community. Only time will tell if the decision can be reversed by fundraising or any other means. But the fact that Iowa has agreed to host the NCAA championships and then drop its program altogether afterwards is startling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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