July 1 - Moving Day 2024

[Inkblot]

Still no membership committee report, but the NCAA membership directory has been updated for 2024–25 and St. Augustine's and Bloomfield are both still on it with their reduced sport counts.

[SW_Mustang]

They are trying to raise $500,000 in two weeks to save the program? Good luck with that one.

Yeah not happening unless some donor comes through.

[Bballfan]

Talladega College shutting down gymnastics program:

Talladega College is shutting down its gymnastics program. The team is trying to save it (abc3340.com)

They are trying to raise $500,000 in two weeks to save the program? Good luck with that one.

[Tech Boys]

An associate membership change for 2024 that I don't think anyone caught is that the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation now sponsors D2 men's wrestling. No official announcement has been made by the league or any of the participating schools as far as I can tell, but it's listed as a sponsored sport now on the MPSF website, with participating members San Francisco State, Cal Poly Humboldt, Menlo, and Vanguard. SF State housed their wrestling program in the RMAC for the longest time, but they're no longer listed as an affiliate member on the RMAC website. Decently big news, as having an actual conference presence for wrestling on the West Coast could lead to more schools in that area starting up teams

The "announcement" is sort of on the championship information page. The participating school logos are at the bottom of the respective sports pages. Only Menlo College and Vanguard have women's teams.

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An associate membership change for 2024 that I don't think anyone caught is that the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation now sponsors D2 men's wrestling. No official announcement has been made by the league or any of the participating schools as far as I can tell, but it's listed as a sponsored sport now on the MPSF website, with participating members San Francisco State, Cal Poly Humboldt, Menlo, and Vanguard. SF State housed their wrestling program in the RMAC for the longest time, but they're no longer listed as an affiliate member on the RMAC website. Decently big news, as having an actual conference presence for wrestling on the West Coast could lead to more schools in that area starting up teams

[SW_Mustang]

Talladega College shutting down gymnastics program:

Talladega College is shutting down its gymnastics program. The team is trying to save it (abc3340.com)

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It's interesting to note that there are six state-funded maritime academies in the US:

Cal State Maritime Academy
Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwest Michigan College (yes, a community college is host to a four-year academic program)
Maine Maritime Academy
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
State University of New York Maritime Academy (which, incredibly enough, is located in The Bronx; I would've guessed Long Island, to be honest)
Texas A&M Maritime Academy at Texas A&M Galveston (TAMU-Galveston is technically considered a branch campus of TAMU-College Station, so much so that many of the TAMU-CS traditions are in effect at TAMU-G)

Right. If this merger goes through, Cal Maritime will definitely become a situation almost identical to Texas A&M-Galveston; the press release even explicitly states that all Cal Maritime students would become part of Cal Poly SLO's student body, which likely means that the Keelhaulers would be no more

[TheBigCat2192]

It's interesting to note that there are six state-funded maritime academies in the US:

Cal State Maritime Academy
Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwest Michigan College (yes, a community college is host to a four-year academic program)
Maine Maritime Academy
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
State University of New York Maritime Academy (which, incredibly enough, is located in The Bronx; I would've guessed Long Island, to be honest)
Texas A&M Maritime Academy at Texas A&M Galveston (TAMU-Galveston is technically considered a branch campus of TAMU-College Station, so much so that many of the TAMU-CS traditions are in effect at TAMU-G)

There’s also the US Merchant Marine Academy in New York. Not a 1:1 match to the mission of a Maritime Academy but I imagine some portions of their education overlap and graduates probably compete for some of the same jobs.

[ctrabs74]

There's talk of CSU Maritime getting merged into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I think the CSU board is voting on it sometime in the next few months. Same story you see everywhere else, enrollment on the decline and operating costs on the rise; the problem is that, being a maritime academy, they're a very specialized school, which makes it difficult to attract new students that weren't already looking at a career on the seas. In any case though, there hasn't been word on what would happen to athletics if the merger goes through, so its possible their athletics program might not be around a whole lot longer

It's interesting to note that there are six state-funded maritime academies in the US:

Cal State Maritime Academy
Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwest Michigan College (yes, a community college is host to a four-year academic program)
Maine Maritime Academy
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
State University of New York Maritime Academy (which, incredibly enough, is located in The Bronx; I would've guessed Long Island, to be honest)
Texas A&M Maritime Academy at Texas A&M Galveston (TAMU-Galveston is technically considered a branch campus of TAMU-College Station, so much so that many of the TAMU-CS traditions are in effect at TAMU-G)

[crixus]

From the Cal State website: https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/...tegration.aspx

Thank you. I hope it doesn't happen.

[Finchwidget]

Got a link? I live in California and went to a CSU school (San Jose State University), but I haven't heard anything about a possible CSU Maritime/CP SLO merger.

From the Cal State website: https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/...tegration.aspx

[crixus]

There's talk of CSU Maritime getting merged into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I think the CSU board is voting on it sometime in the next few months. Same story you see everywhere else, enrollment on the decline and operating costs on the rise; the problem is that, being a maritime academy, they're a very specialized school, which makes it difficult to attract new students that weren't already looking at a career on the seas. In any case though, there hasn't been word on what would happen to athletics if the merger goes through, so its possible their athletics program might not be around a whole lot longer

Got a link? I live in California and went to a CSU school (San Jose State University), but I haven't heard anything about a possible CSU Maritime/CP SLO merger.

[crixus]

At first, I had my doubts, but when compared to what UC Merced is offering, I think it's possible. A longshot, but possible nonetheless.

These are the offerings at CSU Maritime:

Men's Sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Golf, Rugby, Soccer, Water Polo
Women's Sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Golf, Rugby, Soccer, Water Polo

These are the sports offerings at UC Merced:

Men's Sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Track, Volleyball, Water Polo
Women's Sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Track, Volleyball, Water Polo

The reason I had my doubts was because I didn't see baseball or softball offered at CSUMA, but Merced doesn't sponsor baseball or softball. CSUMA might have to add volleyball or another sport for the CCAA to take a serious look at them, but they do have the requisite number of sponsored sports to be a D2 member in the future (6M/6W; I don't think Rugby is an NCAA sponsored sport).

With UC Merced moving to D2, that leaves CSUMA (NAIA) and UC Santa Cruz (D3) as the only UC or CSU schools which are not part of D1 or D2. And UCSC is in that contrived "Coast-to-Coast Conference" which is basically a glorified way of saying that its members are really independents.

Collegiate Women's Rugby falls under the auspices of the NCAA. https://nira.rugby/

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There's talk of CSU Maritime getting merged into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I think the CSU board is voting on it sometime in the next few months. Same story you see everywhere else, enrollment on the decline and operating costs on the rise; the problem is that, being a maritime academy, they're a very specialized school, which makes it difficult to attract new students that weren't already looking at a career on the seas. In any case though, there hasn't been word on what would happen to athletics if the merger goes through, so its possible their athletics program might not be around a whole lot longer

[ctrabs74]

Now that UC Merced has announced it's move to D2, I wonder if the Cal State University Maritime Academy Keelhaulers (NAIA) will move up too?

At first, I had my doubts, but when compared to what UC Merced is offering, I think it's possible. A longshot, but possible nonetheless.

These are the offerings at CSU Maritime:

Men's Sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Golf, Rugby, Soccer, Water Polo
Women's Sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Golf, Rugby, Soccer, Water Polo

These are the sports offerings at UC Merced:

Men's Sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Track, Volleyball, Water Polo
Women's Sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Track, Volleyball, Water Polo

The reason I had my doubts was because I didn't see baseball or softball offered at CSUMA, but Merced doesn't sponsor baseball or softball. CSUMA might have to add volleyball or another sport for the CCAA to take a serious look at them, but they do have the requisite number of sponsored sports to be a D2 member in the future (6M/6W; I don't think Rugby is an NCAA sponsored sport).

With UC Merced moving to D2, that leaves CSUMA (NAIA) and UC Santa Cruz (D3) as the only UC or CSU schools which are not part of D1 or D2. And UCSC is in that contrived "Coast-to-Coast Conference" which is basically a glorified way of saying that its members are really independents.