{"id":11547,"date":"2025-06-20T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ulm-eliminates-womens-tennis-due-to-financial-problems-in-athletic-department\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:29:53","slug":"ulm-eliminates-womens-tennis-due-to-financial-problems-in-athletic-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/ulm-eliminates-womens-tennis-due-to-financial-problems-in-athletic-department\/","title":{"rendered":"ULM Eliminates Women&#8217;s Tennis Due to Financial Problems in Athletic Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women&#8217;s Tennis at ULM Disappears Due to Budget Constraints<\/h2>\n\n\nMONROE, La. \u2013 The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) women&#8217;s tennis program has been discontinued due to financial limitations within the institution&#8217;s athletic department.\n\nAthletic director John Hartwell announced this week that the decision was the result of &#8220;increased operating and infrastructure costs.&#8221; This measure seeks to help ULM Athletics &#8220;continue to move towards budget balance&#8221; while maintaining the NCAA&#8217;s required minimum of 16 Division I sports.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Discontinuing a sport is never an easy decision, nor one we take lightly. We know this is difficult for our student-athletes and our coaches, who have invested so much in our tennis program.<\/p><cite>John Hartwell, Athletic Director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHartwell assured that ULM will honor the scholarships of those students who wish to complete their studies without the need to transfer. In addition, the administration will provide support to the tennis players who wish to continue competing, helping them to find opportunities at other universities.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We will prioritize a transition as smooth as possible for our student-athletes.<\/p><cite>John Hartwell, Athletic Director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAs female tennis athletes graduate or transfer, the scholarship funds that had been allocated to them will be redirected to other female sports teams that remain at ULM.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Tennis at ULM Disappears Due to Budget Constraints MONROE, La. \u2013 The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) women&#8217;s tennis program has been discontinued due to financial limitations within the institution&#8217;s athletic department. Athletic director John Hartwell announced this week that the decision was the result of &#8220;increased operating and infrastructure costs.&#8221; This measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4422,4421,4423,3088],"class_list":{"0":"post-11547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-scholarships","10":"tag-ulm","11":"tag-womens-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}