Oct 29, 2021 · MEET INFORMATION | MEET PREVIEW | LIVE STATS | COURSE MAP (PDF) AKRON, Ohio - The University of Akron women's cross country team under the direction of first-year head coach Anna Bearss will begin postseason competition on Saturday, Oct. 30, at the 2021 Mid-American Conference Championships, hosted by Eastern Michigan at the Eagle Crest Country …
Title IX requires universities to give men and women “equitable opportunities to participate in sports.” This does not mean that universities have to offer identical sports — football, for example, is only available to men — but that each university in the NCAA must “provide participation opportunities for women and men that are substantially proportionate to their respective rates of enrollment of full-time undergraduate students.” Basically, if 56% of a university’s full-time undergraduate students are women, then 56% of the university’s intercollegiate athletes should be women.
Without a cross-country team, runners will transfer schools, and the number and quality of recruits will surely drop, diminishing the track team’s group of long- and middle-distance runners.
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