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Women’s lacrosse gone at Qns. College
Interim athletic director says dissolution needed as part of overall restructuring
BY MAX PARROTT
The Queens College
Athletics and Recreation
Department announced
earlier this month that it will
no longer sponsor women’s
lacrosse as a varsity program.
The decision to eliminate
women’s lacrosse will reduce
the number of athletic
programs at Queens College to
16 total teams, with six men’s
and 10 women’s sports teams.
Though the administration
claimed in a statement that
the decision was made after
a careful examination of
the athletics’ department
budget, the announcement of
the program came abruptly
to the school’s students,
particularly those have
athletic scholarships through
the program.
“This decision,” stated
Interim Director of Athletics
Rob Twible, “is being
made after pain-staking
deliberation. The reality
of the situation is that this
department is striving
to compete at the highest
level along with all of our
counterparts in Division II
and the East Coast Conference.
The determination made by
the staff in this department
is that we can restructure
our available resources
to best ensure the overall
competitiveness of our athletic
programs and allow our
student-athletes that chance
to compete at a heightened
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level in the future.”
The Queens of Lacrosse,
a lacrosse clinic based out of
Fresh Meadows, tweeted in
response that the program
closed with “no warning
at all.” It also claimed the
players’ scholarships will be
cancelled, which turns out not
to be the case.
It’s true that studentathletes
were not informed of
the closure of the program until
the time of the announcement,
but a spokesperson for
Queens College said that the
scholarships of all returning
student-athletes will be
honored “until graduation or
until their athletic eligibility
expires.”
The college will honor
scholarships for the lacrosse
players until each studentathlete’s
eligibility expires
or they leave the college,
whichever comes first.
The college plans to work
with these students to find
and transfer to other schools
with the lacrosse programs if
that’s what they want.
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