Pool rental costs were mentioned in yesterday's University of Maryland student paper article on the swim program cuts. Read more here.To use the natatorium, the athletics department must pay a yearly fee of roughly $300,000.
Read about the drive to save men's swimming at Maryland here.
Teams will work to raise funds independently, but in order for the University of Maryland to continue to comply with the non-negotiable requirements of the federal Title IX law, to save a men's program, we must also reach the fund raising goal for a women's program with similar squad size and scholarship commitments, and vice versa.
According to their Goal Tracker, they've raised a little under $3,000 of the $11+ million needed...
$2809 is what the Athletics Department has raised. Save UMD Swimming and Diving has raised significantly more.
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