MONROE, La. (AP) The womens tennis program at Louisiana-Monroe has been disbanded due to monetary constraints on the college’s athletic division.

Athletics Director John Hartwell introduced this week that the choice stemmed from elevated operational and infrastructure prices and can assist ULM athletics to proceed progress in direction of balancing its finances whereas sustaining an NCAA-required minimal of 16 NCAA Division I sports activities.

Discontinuing a sport is rarely a simple resolution, nor one which we take evenly, Hartwell stated. We all know that is powerful for our student-athletes and our coaches, who’ve poured a lot into our tennis program.”

Hartwell stated ULM will honor the scholarships of those that need to full their levels with out transferring elsewhere. He stated his administration additionally will assist these tennis gamers who need to proceed to compete to pursue alternatives at different colleges.

We’ll prioritize as easy a transition as doable for our student-athletes, Hartwell stated.

As girls’s tennis athletes graduate or switch, scholarship funds that had been devoted to them might be redirected to different remaining girls’s sports activities groups at ULM.

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