While there is a draw for students to join Marquette’s Fishing Club, it is not very often you see signs of students posting “gone fishing.”
The limited funding for club sports has impacted the fishing team’s ability to practice and compete. Without a boat the team is limited to ice fishing competitions and fishing from the shore.
Williams Rooke, interim club president and sophomore in the College of Engineering, said that funding continues to suffer nationwide for fishing organizations.
“This issue goes beyond Marquette as the college Major League Fishing Association was dismantled and the whole Midwestern region had their funding completely cut,” Rooke said.