By Justin Worsley
Despite making the College World Series for the second time in three years, the University of California-Berkley has announced that they will drop their baseball program along with five other varsity sports in a cost-cutting measure.
Starting next year, both men's and women's gymnastics and the women's lacrosse team will no longer be available on campus. California will also no longer financially support the men's rugby the team, the most successful program of the five teams.
The men's rugby team has won 25 National Championships since 1980. The program will lose it's varsity status, instead becoming a "varsity club program." The University is hoping that strong fundraising will keep the team afloat.
The Pacific-10 conference will honor those who were given a scholarship by the school for the sport or, if they chose to, aid a student in transferring to a school that has the sport available. An estimated 163 of the 800-plus athletes who attended the school participated in the aforementioned sports.
Thirteen coaches will also lose their job due to this. California will now have 24 varsity programs and is expected to save $4 million.
The men's gymnastics team has also won four team championships.
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