LOWER OXFORD, Pennsylvania -- Athletic Director Dianthia Ford-Kee confirmed this week that Lincoln University is dropping men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s bowling, for the upcoming 2013-14 academic year.
The move raises the number of discontinued sports at LU to four in the last two years, as men’s soccer was axed following the 2011 season. Lincoln now offers a total of 11 intercollegiate sports: men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, football, men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s cross country, women’s soccer and volleyball.
“Right now, it’s not etched in stone that none of these (suspended programs) will return,” Ford-Kee said. “That’s why we have elected to say we have suspended those sports.”
In an era of tumbling state funding, universities across the country are being forced to cut back athletic department budgets. But according to Ford-Kee and Eric Webb, the school’s Director of Communications, the decision was made not to save money, but was a response to declining interest and low participation numbers.
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