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The results were announced Friday by Stephen Toope, the university’spresident, and Louise Cowin, vice-president of students and the person who ledthe review. The university had said 29 varsity teams were too many and it wouldprefer to focus its support on fewer, elite teams.
The review proved controversial when some alumni and media suggested the fixwas in for traditional sports, such as men’s ice hockey or football. Mr. Tooperepeatedly said nothing had been decided and decried the personal attacks thatwere launched.
Ms. Cowin said the four teams that will have to find external funding – men’sice hockey, men’s field hockey, women’s rugby, and baseball – have a year-longwindow in which to work. She said the goal is for those programs to eventuallybecome self-sustaining.
Milan Dragicevic, head coach of UBC men’s ice hockey, said in an interviewthat he’s pleased the team did not lose its varsity status. He said alumni havedonated more than $600,000 in the past month alone, and the team has beentalking to the Vancouver Canucks about some sort of partnership. He added,[url=http://www.2traders.com/myspace/user/blogs/view/name_Chinmeng1/id_280742/title_cheap-jerseys-for-sale-but-morgan-bailed-o/]cheap jerseys for sale But Morgan bailed o[/url],however, that it will be a massive challenge to make the program – with its$450,000 budget – entirely self-sustaining.
“The department has kind of tied our hands,” he said.
Mr. Toope, when asked if it was realistic to think men’s ice hockey could beself-sustaining, said he was hopeful that over a period of time it would get tothat position.
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Mr. Toope told reporters the review has created a pathway to excellence, andteams, for the first time, know what criteria they have to meet to earn moresupport. He said he did not expect the review to hurt the athletic program’srecruitment efforts.
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Some of the softball players took to Twitter to express theirdisappointment. Cassandra Dypchey wrote: “Bye bye UBC Softball. It was fun whileit lasted and showed so much potential. I guess #UBC couldn’t see it:(”
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