CUTS: Athletes still able to receive other forms of aid

student athletes we have. But the aide has changed so the seesaw moved a little bit.”

“Our peer group for sports like tennis and track is the Big East,” Scholl said. “In tennis and track, they’re all over the map. There are some that are non-scholarship. There are some that are fully funded. We’re not going to be the Lone Ranger in the conference when it comes to being non-scholarship.”

Amongst the 11 Big East schools, there are three men’s teams currently at 4.5 and four women’s at eight. There are three schools that do not have a men’s tennis program: UConn, Providence and Seton Hall.

In order to build the sustainable model that the department envisions for its future, Scholl said there was no way to avoid these budget cuts.

Broeker, who manages the day-to-day operations with a directed focus on external operations and revenue generation within the department, said there were no additional cuts made to the programs’ operating and spending budgets.

“You have three levers to pull financially. You have operating, you have personnel and scholarship. And scholarships was that last one,” Broeker said. “We stretch to the extent on the operating and the personnel side with our reductions.”

“We’re in a situation now with some programs where that athletic component has been diminished. We can still go out and recruit the best

He said two priorities, or commitments, in this process were protecting opportunities for athletes and making sure to not erode their experience at Marquette.

“Yes, we are phasing out scholarships, but we are protecting opportunities for kids to come to Marquette,”

We’re not going to be the Lone Ranger in the conference when it comes to being nonscholarship.

Broeker said. “Maybe it’s a different athlete than we’ve had in the past, but their experience should be the same. Our commitment to their academic support, our commitment to sports medicine, our commitment to strength and conditioning, none of that’s changed.”

Athletes in these respective sports come from all over the county and some even come from overseas.

“It will probably affect our ability to recruit international kids because they typically are looking for a pretty significant athletic scholarship to come here,” Scholl said. “That doesn’t mean we can’t get them and we’ll still continue to pursue them but generally speaking, at least the more talented ones would typically be looking for full rides. And that’s gonna be harder.”

The Al McGuire Center opened in October 2003. Marquette competes in the Big East Conference.

Broeker said the programs will now need to work with the pool of aid from Marquette’s Office of International Education when it comes to recruiting international athletes.

“There’s more work to be done in the recruitment effort both outwardly and inwardly,” Broeker said. “You’re going to have to work a little bit more ahead to get reads from them. You have to work a little bit more ahead with financial aid. … Because if you are not a full scholarship kid, that additional aid is a driver of a decision maker.”

Scholl said he has talked with both head coaches Steve Rodecap and Bert Rogers on how this might affect their overall recruiting.

“They know their landscape better than anybody and they understand why we had to take some steps that we had to take,” Scholl said. “And they’re prepared to recruit under a different set of circumstances than they used to, but they’re full speed ahead.”

Another change could be seen in the strength of schedule for both sports.

“Your roster determines how you schedule. You see this in sports, whether they’re funded or unfunded you schedule differently. Both those programs are no different than others,” Broeker said. “But the beauty we have in our industry is we can schedule competitively in a way to give kids the opportunity to be successful.”

With neither sport having an official Big East conference schedule and just a conference tournament to participate in, the programs have freedom in picking their schedule and opponents.

“But what can’t be lost is that kids still have the opportunity to come to Marquette University to compete in a sport they love. And then we still have an obligation as coaches, trainers, athletic trainers and academic advisors to maximize their Godgiven ability.”

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Junior guard Tyler Kolek was named the Big East Player of the Week after nearing a triple-double in Saturday’s win at DePaul. Kolek finished with 24 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds in the win. He leads the Big East and is third in the nation with 8.0 assists per game.

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