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I have been reading that girls from high school that compete in wrestling wants to wrestle at the D1 level, but there is no schools with a wrestling team. Could there be a new start of women wrestling at the NCAA D1 level? This might also help offset some of the title 9 issues as well.

I think this is more feasible than the number of schools trying to field a sand volleyball squad in places where only indoor volleyball is usually played. That being said, the NCAA almost never makes sense.

Yeah, the girls that wrestles in high schools are from mostly Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas mainly, but other states also represents the rise of girls wrestling. Some of the girls had to wrestle with the boys since there were no team for girls.

(04-20-2016 05:18 AM)dxdtdemon Wrote:  I think this is more feasible than the number of schools trying to field a sand volleyball squad in places where only indoor volleyball is usually played. That being said, the NCAA almost never makes sense.

It actually makes PERFECT sense for the schools to have both sand volleyball and indoor volleyball with the way that the system is set up. A school can have a student that plays on both teams (meaning that student only takes up one scholarship), but the school gets to count her as "2" athletes for Title IX compliance purposes. That's a complete win-win for an athletic department - they get to double up on Title IX compliance with only one scholarship. I'm not saying that it's right or fair, but it's almost crazy for a Division I school to NOT have both indoor volleyball and sand volleyball with the current incentives that are in place. It's an incredibly cheap and easy way to get extra Title IX credit (and the sport in and of itself is cheap to run, too).

(04-20-2016 10:16 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(04-20-2016 05:18 AM)dxdtdemon Wrote:  I think this is more feasible than the number of schools trying to field a sand volleyball squad in places where only indoor volleyball is usually played. That being said, the NCAA almost never makes sense.

It actually makes PERFECT sense for the schools to have both sand volleyball and indoor volleyball with the way that the system is set up. A school can have a student that plays on both teams (meaning that student only takes up one scholarship), but the school gets to count her as "2" athletes for Title IX compliance purposes. That's a complete win-win for an athletic department - they get to double up on Title IX compliance with only one scholarship. I'm not saying that it's right or fair, but it's almost crazy for a Division I school to NOT have both indoor volleyball and sand volleyball with the current incentives that are in place. It's an incredibly cheap and easy way to get extra Title IX credit (and the sport in and of itself is cheap to run, too).

Except don't they also have to have proportional scholarship dollars in order to be in compliance? Having a multi-sport athlete on one scholarship helps with the participation metric, but now the scholarship:participant ratio is skewed in the other direction, meaning that either a) you're shifting the scholarship funds to another sport/athlete, or b) you're not in compliance.

Well then Frank, we must be crazy because UC Santa Barbara does not have beach volleyball.