Recently at the University of Maryland they had to cut teams because the finical situation for UMD is not going in the right direction. If Maryland wanted to keep the sports teams then they had to cut some teams. Immediately everyone started freaking out but then also I knew that Title IX was going to go into affect once they announced they were going to cut the teams. Title IX is when women get chances to play sports.
While the whole deciding of who was going to be the teams that were going to be cut they had to make sure that they had to pair a guys sport with a females sport. By doing so it would make the numbers even for female and male sports.
Being on the Track and Field team, here at the University of Maryland, many other sports teams do not realize that Men's and Women's Track and Field are ONE team. No matter where we go to compete we compete as one and that is one reason I chose to come to the University of Maryland. Once they announced that Men's Track and Field team was one of the teams being cut we could not believe it. The main reason why Women's Track and Field was saved was because of Title IX but Title IX also Detrimental to the guys side. Finically Men's Track and field was fine but they had to pair up a girls sport and a guys sport.
Title IX is a great thing to have but sometimes it hurts people too. We raised enough money to safe are team for one more season but we still need to meet more deadlines if we want to continue to keep our team.
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