U.S. Olympic Committee concerned non-revenue college sports will be cut

If you are a fan of college sports only when you are watching football or men's basketball, you won't likely care about this Yahoo Sports article published today. However, if you are concerned about the future of non-revenue collegiate sports, e.g., swimming & diving and water polo, then you should read the article and become familiar with the challenges facing these NCAA sports. Good to see that USA Swimming plans to take a more active role in promoting college swimming. What do you think can be done to protect and promote the non-revenue Olympic sports at the college level?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/u-s--olympic-committee--candidly-concerned--non-revenue-college-sports-will-be-cut-212917571-ncaab.html

Interesting Commentary on "Last Chance" Meets

Read an interesting analysis from SwimSwam.com today about the impact of the Last Chance meets on Men's Division I NCAA Championships. Out of 5 approved men’s last chance meets, SwimSwam found 11 swimmers whose only invited swim was a swim done at a Last Chance meet.

Of those 11, SwimSwam reports only a single swimmer wound up scoring at the NCAA Championships, with no impact on team placements. 

So...is it worth investing all the resources necessary for hosting those meets? The expenses for the teams to stay an extra day at the conference venue? All the stress and uncertainty on the remaining swimmers who still did not qualify? What about the 11 swimmers who were bumped from the meet for the 11 "Last Chance" swimmers who received the invitations instead?

Food for thought. See the full article at http://swimswam.com/2014-m-ncaa-championships-5-big-things-4-single-last-chance-qualifier-scores-ncaas/.

ASCA Clinic

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Redesigned web site is now up and running

A few months ago, we learned that our (now former) web host would no longer be supporting the language in which our database had been written. We now have had the entire database rewritten, and threw in some design changes to make the site more functional and dynamic as well. We hope you like what you see, and will come back often!

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Debunking Title IX Myths

"Has Title IX hurt men's sports, such as wrestling? The numbers might surprise you." espnW and ESPN The Magazine published an article on April 7 that purports to debunk the myths of Title IX. http://es.pn/Hoe9gG

The article seems to support the contention this writer has made for a number of years that the impact of adding women's sports is not the reason colleges have been dropping a number of the so-called "minor" sports such as men's swimming & diving, wrestling and gymnastics, despite the fact that these are Olympic sports. Instead, it's the ever-increasing money being spent on football and men's basketball that have lead to the demise of the minor sports in intercollegiate programs.