Title IX and Cutting Collegiate Athletic Teams During the Pandemic

By Professor Paul Anderson, Director, Sports Law Program and National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School On July 8, 2020, Stanford University announced that it would discontinue 11 varsity sports programs at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year: men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball, and wrestling. Although the university stated that the decision to ma