Please try to give me a school for each one or apply as many as you’d like.

The Quinnipiac University Women’s Volleyball team is suing its Hamden, Conn. school after university officials eliminated the team in favor of a more cost-effective competitive cheer squad.

However, the volleyball team is arguing that cheerleading cannot be considered a university sport under Title IX.

An activity is considered a sport under Title IX if it has coaches, practices, competitions during a defined season, and a governing organization. The activity also must have competition as its primary goal—not just the support of other athletic teams.

The case goes to trial in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, beginning Monday.

Linda Carpenter, a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and co-author of the book “Title IX,” said the women’s sports community is watching the case closely.

“These are significant issues and a significant case,” Carpenter said. “It provides a case, whichever way it goes, that can work its way up the judicial food chain, and ultimately provide a precedent.”

“The outcome of this case could have a chilling effect on women’s athletics programs if cheerleading is deemed a sport,” said Mary Jo Kane, director of the Tucker Center for Girls and Women in Sports at the University of Minnesota and a Title IX expert unaffiliated with the case.

“No one wants to denigrate cheerleading, but should it be considered sport at the expense of legitimate women’s competitive team sports? It’s a question of equality,” Kane said. “How would people react if the school cut a men’s sport like baseball or lacrosse and used those funds for a male cheerleading squad?”

The women volleyball players say a men’s team would never lose funding in favor of cheerleading and the players are the subjects of sex discrimination.

“The Student Plaintiffs allege that Defendant’s ongoing sex discrimination in the operation of its varsity athletic program violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,” the students said in their lawsuit.

Sources:

http://www.1010wins.com/Is-Cheerleading-a-S-P-O-R-T–Conn–Judge-to-Decide/7525062

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g4qjhOHa7ww0rqi3HWMxFcupRvZgD9GF1KI80

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/connecticut-trial-determine-cheerleading-sport/story?id=10972950

Your thoughts on this raging controversy that could haves serious impacts on female collegiate sports programs depending on how this argument is settled by the Federal court?
Note: If the links aren’t clickable just copy and paste the given addresses on to your address bar and hit enter.

Or google “Is cheerleading a competitive sport?” and look for the latest news articles on it.

Frank
Thanks for the info Dottie, I gave them a call today and unfortunately they have no useful information for me in that department. For the other answer below Dottie. If you read my question you’d see that I didn’t say a 1 mile radius. That in fact I have done a 30 mile radius and I haven’t come up with anything. I’ve even called around to local schools down there to put me in the right direction. However, most schools are only interested in you learning from them that they will not put you in the right direction only upsell which results in a hang up. Question still open for those that can help.