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[UADavid]

I think the title IX has more to do with total athletes than with number of teams. The schools need to show a willingness to offer as many opportunities to women in sports. Gender equity in all aspects ie facilities etc. Anyone? :macc:

[zippyrifle32]

Is the rifle team a female sport?  Or is is a co-ed sport?  Title 9?  Is that the law which states a university must have an equal number of both male and female sports teams?  I've thought for some time now that we should add a wrestling team - what with all of the local wrestling talent.  But that would be another male sports, which likely wouldn't work out, and besides, wrestling is a rather low-profile sport.  A HOCKEY team, on the other hand - now we're talking!!!  New arena for b-ball and hockey?!  Fun!

this is a little off topic here, but i'll answer anyways. (sorry mods)our rifle team is co-ed, but there are many programs around the country that are all female. it's actually one of the only ncaa sports where men and women compete side by side and against each other. there is no men's champion or women's champion, just the overall champion. however, on the international scene (where many of the top collegiate athletes end up) it becomes seperated based on sex. now i said before that we have a co-ed team, but up until this year, scholarship money could only be given to the females. that made it extremely difficult to recruit guys, and most of the ones that we have on the team now are here because of the coach alone (that's what a great guy he is.) the ncaa says a rifle team can give a max 3.6 scholarship. now you need at least 4 people to make a full team (we have 14 or 15 this year), so you know that nobody is getting a full ride. however, a school can choose to give the program less than that to work with. we were operating on 2.0 scholarships to women only. this year the school gave us another scholarship (3.0) and the ratio of women's $: men's $ was high enough that my coach is now able to give a very small part of a scholarship to one guy. we are fairly low profile here, but most of that is due to the fact that we don't compete in the mac with the rest of the school teams. in fact, no other mac school has a rifle team. we have two leagues we compete in: the western intercollegiate rifle championship, and our own version of the mac - the mid-atlantic rifle conference. now we wouldn't have so many title 9 issues if the ncaa would just start women's football...