UC Davis Athletic Cuts

[Fee]

Originally Posted by Enlightened Coelacanth

UC Davis has always been considered here as the public school equivalent of Stanford (albeit one with no scholarships to get by on, until quite recently) so to see this is really hurtful.
But seeing how politicians have effed up California I'm not surprised.

Actually, I think Cal (Berkeley) was always considered the public school equivalent of Stanford, especially since they do compete in Division 1 sports against Stanford. UCD is just the little team that beat Stanford Football once (and they are still talking about it).

Years ago, the UCD students voted to impose a fee on themselves to support the Athletic Department and the Rec facilities for students. This was supposed to be a separate fund but it looks like the current administration has decided to dip into it to cover other costs on campus due to the budget situation. Not sure what the latest news on this development is, I suppose I should mosey over to the California Aggie website one of these days and catch up on it.

UCD is hosting a men's futures tennis tournament in June this year. It would be a shame for them to have to announce at that event that the program is cut, less than 10 years after they rebuilt and expanded the courts on campus.

For a small town, Davis is very active in tennis with a number of well maintained community courts scattered in pairs throughout the city, and the main complex shared between the community and the High School. They also have a pretty active community courts based club, www.davistennisclub.com

[dennis10is]

Originally Posted by EC230

Tennis classes at UCD tends to be overfilled... so I'm not sure if that answers the question appropriately.



And yes, both coaches are actively involved in teaching of these classes as they both continually need assistants to help run these classes.



For the two quarters intramural tennis is offered, it is consistently filled up with 3-4 different levels of participation (from beginners to advanced).



As for the Tennis Club, UC Davis has one of the largest club tennis programs especially on the West Coast. There are over 200 members in the Tennis Club and it was just awarded as Tennis Club of the Year by USTA's Tennis on Campus Program in 2009.



See response above.

So in all, students are pretty actively involved in tennis here at UCD. That's why it's sad that the Men's Tennis Program may get cut.

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Thanks for the answers.

That's a tough situation. The lost of the program will mean that the rest of the student body, who showed great interest in tennis will lose out on the opportunity to learn from the tennis coaches, as well as some of the players, whom I assume may be able to serve as TA's in those tennis classes.

[renegades10]

The women's teams has already been told they are safe from the cuts and good thing too because Bill Maze is a great coach and has a very strong recruiting class coming in. The men's team however most likely will be gone. I actually played for the men's team my freshman year and was given a scholarship. While I feel bad for the players who are returning next year and the incoming recruits, I must say that no one can be surprised that the program will get cut given the general lack of success. And most of this can be attributed to the coach there. This actually gives the AD a solution to the problem he has had for years now as many players have had meetings with him over the years about the coach and the problems he causes. Unfortunate situation, but very true. Most of the men's players are already talking to other schools figuring out a place to transfer to.

[Fee]

The tennis team got saved (this time):

http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/n....lasso?id=9432

[volleynets]

Originally Posted by dennis10is

Are tennis classes at UCD popular?

Do the coaches also teach the tennis classes?

Is the intramural tennis program active?

Does Davis have Club tennis?

How would you rate the level of intramural participation, across all sports, at UCD?

1. From what I have seen, there are very many people on court at the tennis classes.

2. the coaches do teach the classes

3. The IM tennis registration is always full. I think there were over 6 brackets for Men's A last time for just singles.

4. They do have club tennis. The Club has around 150-200 members and meet twice a week. There is also a Club Traveling Team which plays tournaments against other schools.

5. The IM participation is very high. There are virtually all IM sports at Davis including less common sports like field hockey, ultimate frisbee, and rugby.

[Enlightened Coelacanth]

Originally Posted by Fee

Actually, I think Cal (Berkeley) was always considered the public school equivalent of Stanford, especially since they do compete in Division 1 sports against Stanford. UCD is just the little team that beat Stanford Football once (and they are still talking about it).

Years ago, the UCD students voted to impose a fee on themselves to support the Athletic Department and the Rec facilities for students. This was supposed to be a separate fund but it looks like the current administration has decided to dip into it to cover other costs on campus due to the budget situation. Not sure what the latest news on this development is, I suppose I should mosey over to the California Aggie website one of these days and catch up on it.

UCD is hosting a men's futures tennis tournament in June this year. It would be a shame for them to have to announce at that event that the program is cut, less than 10 years after they rebuilt and expanded the courts on campus.

For a small town, Davis is very active in tennis with a number of well maintained community courts scattered in pairs throughout the city, and the main complex shared between the community and the High School. They also have a pretty active community courts based club, www.davistennisclub.com

I think Cal is too much of a rival to be very like Stanford. And I keep in mind that UC Davis and Stanford are in two separate universes as far as their resources and ability to field sports teams.
I base my comparison on the all around excellence of the Davis athletic program (as like Stanford's) and it's relative good academic rep (a la Stanford). Of course this is a rough comparison and Davis is like the little brother to Stanford (in my mind) while Berkeley is like the weird neighbor down the street.

[LanEvo]

Just wanted to update I guess, the program is still running.

[bluetrain4]

Can sports really be saved in these situations with a petition (I'm asking honestly, not being snarky)? Or, would it take actual outside money to save the programs?