| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 2401 | Peter Swartwout | |
| 2402 | Matt Van Doren | |
| 2403 | david walla | |
| 2404 | Mary Hagopian | Find another solution! OU's Swim Team set my brother on the path to success. There's got to be another way. |
| 2405 | Meredith J. Hoffman | |
| 2406 | Aaron Kark | This is crazy to even think of this. The school is able to spend crazy amounts of money on projects like Ping Center but they have nothing left over for obvious things like organized sports. This is insane. Aaron Kark OU grad 98 |
| 2407 | Timothy Jones | |
| 2408 | Sean Duff | |
| 2409 | ERIC STATES | |
| 2410 | Matthew Garrod | |
| 2411 | Brandon Jordan | While I'm no big spender when it comes to donating to OU, I have contributed more than spare change. From now on, I'll answer every phone call with, "Call me once you've brought back the men's track program... and not until." |
| 2412 | Jeff Kime | |
| 2413 | Alicia Donohue | |
| 2414 | Isabel Murray | I am an Ohio taxpayer I live in Toledo and I am going to write a letter to the editor of The Toledo Blade and trash OU for proposing to eliminate the men's swim team what idiots its a small amount in their budget and gives so much to the swimmers and thier families shame on the AD and Pres of OU Isabel Murray |
| 2415 | Anonymous | I believe that if they truly wanted to keep these sports they would have found another way beside automatically cutting them. It's upsetting that people do not want to go the extra mile to keep sports that are diverse and extremely competitve in order to maintain the "big" sports. |
| 2416 | Anonymous | |
| 2417 | Andrea Graham | It is very sad that a school with other athletic programs would target these sports for elimination. Especially when scholarships were offered, and students chose this school based on the scholarship offers. |
| 2418 | Leslie Joyce | |
| 2419 | Anonymous | |
| 2420 | Anonymous | |
| 2421 | marybeth tkac | |
| 2422 | Taylor C Anderson | |
| 2423 | Katie Gioielli | |
| 2424 | Steve King | |
| 2425 | Jason D. Vensel | |
| 2426 | Michael Howachyn | swimming is a great conditioning sport that causes minimal or no injuries, it is fun and builds carachter as all sporting events do, diving is gymnastics over water. Please continue these sports at OU and everywhere in the world! |
| 2427 | Brad Kilbourn | |
| 2428 | Ben Pollock | |
| 2429 | Diana Roane | This is a shame especially with the passing of Title XI in regards to Women's Lacrosse. How sad this will be (again) for another university to remove highly respected teams for the sake of one. I went to a university which did the same thing, cut "little" sports for the "big" sport, football. The football team has been defeated ever since the other teams were cut. Was it by chance? I don't believe so... |
| 2430 | Jennifer Gould | |
| 2431 | Melissa Minshall | |
| 2432 | DORANNE PAGLIUCA | |
| 2433 | Dennis Mattai | Please reconsider reinstating the sports you are considering cutting.
I was a varsity swimmer during my undergraduate years. The prospect of training and competing in college was integral to my staying in college and completing my degree. Having both a degree and varsity experience made me more marketable as I entered the business world.
I made many friends and had many broadening experiences as a college athlete, and traveled a great deal as a result.
Athletic activities such as swimming, track, lacrosse, et. al., are instrumental in fostering healthy, constructive lifestyles for undergraduate students as they bridge the life experience from a structured home environhment in high school to that of independent living.
Today, as a 50 year old, I enjoy good health. As a productive employee in a small, privately held finance company, my health habits are instrumental in holding down the cost of insurance for my firm (as you may well know, the cost of insurance has spiraled out of control in recent years).
As stated before, my college athletic experience was instrumental in forming not only good exercise habits, but good daily habits as well. Cutting athletic programs will decrease the opportunity for students to maintain and develop the critical good habits that will help them transition into independent living and ultimately reduce the exponentially growing cost of health care.
Please do not cut these programs. |
| 2434 | Anonymous | |
| 2435 | Lisa Downing | |
| 2436 | Kristen Kerr | |
| 2437 | Anonymous | I was on the UC Irvine track team in 1991 when they cut the team, it was reinstated the next year.
GOOD LUCK! |
| 2438 | Wade Wines | |
| 2439 | Anonymous | |
| 2440 | Tommy Carpenter | My daughter is on the women's swimming team. A major reason she signed with OU is because they had a co-ed swim program. She is very upset with the schools bad decision to cut sports. She had friends on those teams. |
| 2441 | Elizabeth Dwyer | |
| 2442 | Tony Pryor | Keep Fighting |
| 2443 | Anonymous | |
| 2444 | Carol Horton | |
| 2445 | David Allen | Please keep Men's Swimming and Diving. |
| 2446 | Kat Allen | |
| 2447 | Chris Schwirian | OU Track and Field Alum from 1990-1993 |
| 2448 | Anonymous | I think OU should not cut the men's swimming program. THere are many other ways to save money. Why not find a sponsor to support the team. Steve King pays for University of Maine swimming program. |
| 2449 | Anonymous | How can a university with such a long history in track and field cut this team? These are Olympic sports. I read the article about Stan Huntsman. If someone as notable as he is publicly severs ties with his alma mater then it tells me that this decision was ill-informed and greedy. The alumni of this 200 plus year old university should demand action to reinstate Men's Track and Field and the other teams eliminated and demand that the administration of Ohio University start acting like they want to be respected in the NCAA community. |
| 2450 | Liz Highley | I'm so sorry to hear about this. I think it's ridiculous. Good luck to those of you who are taking a stand and attempting to sway the minds of OU's administration. |