The NYTimes takes a look back on the aftermath of the Title IX affects, and find a couple sports live on. Sure, they quote that the Yale water polo team continues on, but is that realistic for most colleges? I’m all for the free market however. If a scholarshipped team isn’t warranted, then I don’t advocate continuing the scholarships. For archery, however, Title IX has been devastating effect on helping the best archers pay for a college education. Archery was different in that there were a good level of mens and womens scholarships available, now there are none. Archers will continue to go to college because typically they possess the skills and discipline that translate into excellent school work. The financial burden remains however.

Here’s the bottom line however, Title IX is here to stay. It is up to us to continue the great sport of archery, and it always was. It is one of our goals as a club, to eventually develop our own scholarship program. To give something, no doubt very little, but enough to buy some college books and to reward some of our archer students to pursue higher education. After all, archery wasn’t our primary goal as a club. Character development is our primary goal, archery just happens to be our vehicle.

Since then, all the eliminated teams have continued in one nonvarsity form or another. Some have competed at a high level, some have not. The archery club team won a national championship last season at the same level of competition it had competed at as a varsity squad.

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Dropped From Varsity Lineup, but No Longer Grumbling