Last week’s announcement by Dartmouth College that they would be cutting their men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs, along with their golf teams and men’s lightweight rowing team, isn’t the first time that the school has tried to drop its aquatics team.
In 2002, Dartmouth announced the elimination of its swimming & diving teams as well. That was a simpler and smaller time in college athletics, though, where the program’s budget was just $212,000. These days, fundraising thrice that amount in some cases can’t even get a conversation with an athletics director. We had '04 Dartmouth swim alum Priscilla Zee give her take on how that affected her as an athlete and student, and what she thought might change moving forward.
However, when Dartmouth swimmers did get an audience with the school president via Zoom, the results were disappointing. Sophomore Connor Bishop and Senior Maggie Deppe-Walker recapped the call, saying after they felt ultimately discouraged to even try to revive their swim program. 
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