It has been one year since San Diego State announced that after the 2020-2021 season, the women’s rowing team would be cut as an official sport.
A team that, in their final season, saw 34 out of 44 rowers named to the American Athletic Conference all-academic team — the second-most in team history — is no more.
Initially, there were no plans to drop any sport. Athletics Director John David Wicker, speaking to the San Diego Union-Tribune, said there were no intentions of dropping any SDSU sports teams.
“Right now, we’re not looking to drop a sport,” Wicker said in a Union-Tribune article published April 15.