Women’s Lacrosse Players Challenge Fresno State Administrators Alleging Sex Discrimination

By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Contributor and Professor, Sports Media, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu In October of 2020, Fresno State administrators announced plans to cut three sports – men’s tennis, men’s wrestling, and women’s lacrosse – before the start of the next academic year.  Financial shortfalls caused by the impact of the COVID pandemic were cited as the reason for the elimination of those three sports.  In a s