UW offers a variety of sports to students, athletes and fans, but one sport that needs to come back is baseball.
The program was cut in 1996 after funding problems and Title IX requirements. Because the University didn’t have equal or more women’s sports teams, it was necessary to cut the baseball program altogether to even things out. The program they cut, although not the winningest collegiate baseball team, should have been preserved and teams added to the women’s side to allow baseball to stick around.
The UW baseball team had been around since the early 20th century, and during that time they did all right, producing around seven major league baseball players and reaching the College World Series in 1956 under head coach Bud Daniel.