{"id":23650,"date":"1998-04-14T21:12:37","date_gmt":"1998-04-15T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1998\/04\/14\/st-olaf-to-drop-hockey-after-1999\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:09","slug":"st-olaf-to-drop-hockey-after-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/1998\/04\/14\/st-olaf-to-drop-hockey-after-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Olaf to Drop Hockey After 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"
St. Olaf College, a Division III institution and a member of the MIAC, has announced its intention to drop men’s hockey from varsity status as part of an overall cost-cutting measure effective after the 1998-99 season.<\/p>\n
Said head coach Sean Goldsworthy in Tuesday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/i>, “My first obligation is to the kids on the hockey team, and I’ve told them to be patient … I’ve tried to stay positive and upbeat, because I’m not convinced anything is finalized yet.”<\/p>\n
Along with hockey, wrestling would be reduced to a club team under the proposal, and the position of sports information director would be eliminated. Several nonathletic programs have been targeted as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Olaf College, a Division III institution and a member of the MIAC, has announced its intention to drop men’s hockey from varsity status as part of an overall cost-cutting measure effective after the 1998-99 season. Said head coach Sean Goldsworthy in Tuesday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune, “My first obligation is to the kids on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n