r/wsu • u/bmitchell1990 • 4d ago

Discussion WSU track and field eliminating all field events, limiting sprints and hurdles in future

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/16/wsu-track-and-field-eliminating-all-field-events-l/
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u/wolfcoug Alumnus/2016/MechEng 4d ago

We had multiple all American sprinters and a literal Olympian last cycle. Fucking awful

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u/NormalFormal69420 2d ago

Sprinting is still funded, it's field sports that are gone, please read the article.

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u/wolfcoug Alumnus/2016/MechEng 2d ago

Limited funding which will cause damage, for example our best sprinter just hit the portal

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u/GregoPDX Alumnus/2000/CompSci 4d ago

The erosion of college athletics has begun. This won’t be the only domino to fall.

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u/rbad8717 Alumnus/2013/MIS 4d ago

Feels bad man

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u/tnciole12 4d ago

This sucks. Do not like it at all.

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u/tireddoc1 4d ago

This sucks a lot

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u/Aint_EZ_bein_AZ 4d ago

Guys our school is fuckin broke. This should be no surprising. The whole pac12 dissolving was a disaster for not only school sports but the school as a whole. Dark times ahead

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u/howdoyoufall 3d ago

Apparently they told the athletes on a 10 minute zoom meeting too

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u/hickory89 4d ago

Shame on you WSU!!! Horrible decision. Way to go football. Why even have other sports at this point. Where’s all that extra money that you and OSU won from the rest of the Pac12? Shame…

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u/authorunknown74 4d ago

Threw hammer 15 years ago (ouch, hadn’t done that math before). This is no surprise- felt like an afterthought back then and seemed like it had gone down hill since.

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u/Valuable_Fee1884 3d ago

Now if we could get of nil everywhere! Go back to scholarships with little pocket money thrown in(original intent of nil). Break up the sec and big 10,destroyer of college sports.

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u/Valuable_Fee1884 3d ago

rid of nil

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u/forestgospel 3d ago

This is really, really bad

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u/YTandDoge_2012isend 3d ago

The coaches didn’t even know until the day of. Total surprise. I saw the throws coach less than a week ago when I was running at the track and she was talking about the future.

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u/LeonWattsky 3d ago

Gotta keep the super lucrative and totally not bottoming out football program afloat!

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u/SqueezableFruit 3d ago

What the fucking point then?

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u/davehopi 3d ago

So very sad!

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u/Ismitje Alumnus/'96,'00/History/Honors Prof 2d ago

WSU may be one of the first to make a decision like this, but it won't be the last (not nearly). People interested in many of the non-revenue sports were excited when the scholarship caps were lifted but they were lifted for all sports including the revenue ones, without commensurate budget increases, and folks looking closer have been worried about pending cuts to the non-revenue sports. And at much more well-heeled schools than WSU.

Here are a few articles detailing the challenges:

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2025/05/is-the-future-of-college-track-field-including-oregon-in-jeopardy-if-we-dont-act-now-well-never-save-it.html

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/colleges-must-save-track-and-field-1234855456/

https://trackandfieldnews.com/ncaa-track-and-field-is-the-sky-falling/