Marquette Athletic programs suffer budget cuts

Tennis, Track & Field, to be non-scholarship sports by 2025-26

By John Leuzzi john.leuzzi@marquette.edu

Due to budget cuts made within Marquette Athletics, the Marquette men’s and women’s tennis and men’s and women’s track and field programs will be taken down to non-scholarship programs by the 2025-26 academic year.

Marquette Vice President and Director of Athletics Bill Scholl and Deputy Athletic Director Mike Broeker confirmed this with the Marquette Wire.

“We’re in year three of a multi-year process,” Scholl said. “Unfortunately, the budget realities forced us to make some moves and those are some of the moves we made.”

The NCAA permits its partnering institutions at the Division I level to offer 4.5 scholarships in men’s tennis and eight scholarships for women’s tennis. Meanwhile, for track and field, it allows 12.6 scholarships for men and 18 scholarships for women.

Despite the initiative, Scholl said the department will continue to honor commitments made to those currently on those teams along with each program’s incoming f irst-year classes.

“We didn’t take anything away from anybody,” Scholl said. “If we commit to a full ride for four years, they’re getting a full ride for four years.”

With athletic aid being completely phased out by 2025-26 for tennis and track and field, student-athletes will still be able to receive academic and