Ten months after revealing plans to cut nearly one-third of its varsity athletic programs, Stanford announced on Tuesday that those 11 sports — including 10 featured at the Olympics — would not be discontinued after all, ending a battle between supporters of those sports and the university within weeks of the teams’ potential dissolution.
University leaders, in announcing the reversal, cited improvements in the school’s investments over the last 10 months, and said supporters of the programs had helped reveal a new path toward funding the sports.
Celebrations rippled through campus when teams heard their programs would be saved.