Philly Sports Jabronis
Report from meltwaterpress.com
PHILADELPHIA — An announcement that Temple University will be cutting seven of its intercollegiate sports programs in 2014 has sparked multiple Care2 petitions by alumni and athletes at the school.
Alexander Gorski, an alumni of the men’s gymnastics team (2003-2008), created a petition to save the team from being cut which has gathered more than 7,000 signatures. He currently coaches women’s gymnastics, and says that cutting these programs can create a domino effect that has negative consequences to the Olympic level. “Athletes at the club level will leave the sport due to the lack of opportunity for a scholarship which will cause our Olympic team to weaken, since colleges are where gymnasts hone their skills to the Olympic level.”
View Gorski’s Petition Here: http://www.care2.com/go/z/TempleGym
Mario Dicarlo is a sophomore on the men’s crew team, and created a petition to save their rowing team, saying that it is “a family, who bleeds cherry and white!” That petition has more than 7,500 signatures. Dicarlo also cites Olympic hopes of Temple athletes as a reason for not cutting the program.
View Dicarlo’s Petition Here: http://www.care2.com/go/z/TempleRow
Two other petitions have also gained some traction – one supporting the baseball team, created by a father of a player, and one asking to save all of the sports that were cut, which was created by a current student athlete.
