ISU officially discontinuing gymnastics

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Iowa State To Reimagine Women's Sports Lineup - Iowa State Athletics

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State University Athletics Department will discontinue its women's gymnastics program and replace it with another sport that provides e...

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"The Iowa State University Athletics Department will discontinue its women's gymnastics program and replace it with another sport that provides equal or additional participation opportunities for women, Endowed ISU Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard announced today."

 

[Sigmapolis]

Women’s wrestling time?

 

[Brockchili]

Women’s wrestling time?

We can only hope! Gotta add another sport to beat Iowa in for the CyHawk.

 

[JP4CY]

I really enjoyed going to the gymnastics events. It was a fun environment.
I am sorry to see it go but at the same time can be excited for a new sport to hopefully succeed.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

It time for Women's rifle so we can take down WVU and TCU.

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Sad....gymnastics meets were always fun.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Rowing has giant rosters and is a great way to get some extra tuition paying students...

 

[Agclone91]

Such a bummer. Have a daughter that is just coming to the age that she is interested in sports and she has really taken a liking to gymnastics. We watched the Utah meet on TV and she was really excited at the prospect of going watch meets.

 

[SCNCY]

Was anyone able to figure out what actually happened?

 

[ackatch]

What a god damned disappointment.

 

[wxman1]

Rowing has giant rosters and is a great way to get some extra tuition paying students...

Gonna be hard on the Skunk...

 

[ClonesFTW]

Won't be the last program to get the axe in the new environment.

 

[pourcyne]

Here comes ISU women's soccer. Iowa State, Home to the Future Mia Hamm...

https://big12sports.com/sports/wsoc

 

[ZorkClone]

Wow actually surprised that they did it and are seemingly going to add another sport. I thought for sure they were just going to discontinue the program and leave it at that.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Was anyone able to figure out what actually happened?

College students partied too hard and didn’t respect the coach. The coach blew up at them and the athletics department is hitting the reset button on the whole thing by getting rid of it.

 

[Darius Bieber]

Wow actually surprised that they did it and are seemingly going to add another sport. I thought for sure they were just going to discontinue the program and leave it at that.

I think they have to add another sport due to Title 9 and/or remain D1 status

 

[ZorkClone]

Here comes ISU women's soccer. Iowa State, Home to the Future Mia Hamm...

https://big12sports.com/sports/wsoc

We already have women's soccer? https://cyclones.com/sports/womens-soccer/schedule

 

[pourcyne]

Here comes ISU women's soccer. Iowa State, Home to the Future Mia Hamm...

https://big12sports.com/sports/wsoc

Oh, wait, it's already here. Time to start covering it, CF.

With my apologies to Lauren McConnell.

Lauren McConnell - Soccer - Iowa State Athletics

Lauren McConnell (9) Midfielder - Awards & Honors Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2022, 2023, 2024) Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team (2021-22) Big 12 Commissi...

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[WIBadger]

That’s really sad

 

[ZorkClone]

I think they have to add another sport due to Title 9 and/or remain D1 status

I though we went over this in the other thread that we already had 18 sports and only need 16 and that ISU's male/female ratio means we already meet the Title 9 requirement. I stopped paying attention to that thread so I could be wrong.