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FAMU to restore four sports to athletic competition
October 21, 2005
TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Oct. 21) – Florida A&M University announced
Friday morning that the four varsity sports programs – Men's
Golf, Men's Tennis, along with Men's and Women's Swimming and
Diving – that had been dropped earlier this year due to financial
concerns, would return to competition this school year.
Interim President Castell Vaughn Bryant made the move official during the university's annual Homecoming Convocation in the Jake Gaither Athletic Center.
"With the identification of a university budget surplus," Dr. Bryant said, "the decision has been made to restore the four sports to competition this school year."
Interim Athletic Director E. Newton Jackson said after the convocation that the institution has indeed "made a formal request of the NCAA to sponsor the four sports during the 2005-06 school year."
The return of the four programs would bring the total number of intercollegiate sports offerings by Florida A&M University to 18:
Sports Offered By FAMU
| Men's Sports |
Women's Sports |
| •Baseball |
Basketball |
| •Basketball |
Bowling |
| •Cross Country |
Cross Country |
| •Football |
Softball |
| •Golf* |
Swimming and Diving* |
| •Swimming and Diving* |
Tennis |
| •Tennis* |
Track, Indoor |
| •Track, Indoor |
Track, Outdoor |
| •Track, Outdoor |
Volleyball |
(*)-Sports to be restored
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