{"id":201,"date":"2005-01-21T05:52:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=201"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"montclair-state-reclassifies-wrestling-4-others-as-club-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w201\/montclair-state-reclassifies-wrestling-4-others-as-club-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair State Reclassifies Wrestling, 4 Others as Club Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nynewsday.com\/news\/local\/state\/ny-bc-nj--montclair-teamsdr0120jan20,0,2057147.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey \"target=\"blank\">From New York Newsday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MONTCLAIR, N.J. &#8212; Montclair State University will drop five varsity sports, effective with the 2005-06 academic year, officials said Thursday, citing cost considerations. <\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country, men&#8217;s lacrosse, women&#8217;s tennis and wrestling will be reclassified from varsity to club sport status. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to limited available fiscal and human resources, the University can no longer effectively support 21 teams at the intercollegiate level, &#8220;the school said in a prepared statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will allow us to better utilize our limited resources to support our varsity teams at the conference level, &#8220;said Karen L. Pennington, the university&#8217;s vice president for student development and campus life. <\/p>\n<p>Athletic director Holly Gera said the school considered factors such as the part-time status of head coaches, available local competition, facility demands, travel considerations and equipment costs. Coaches in all five sports were part-time university employees, Gera said. <\/p>\n<p>Montclair State&#8217;s teams compete at the NCAA Division III level in the New Jersey Athletic Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Newsday MONTCLAIR, N.J. &#8212; Montclair State University will drop five varsity sports, effective with the 2005-06 academic year, officials said Thursday, citing cost considerations. Men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country, men&#8217;s lacrosse, women&#8217;s tennis and wrestling will be reclassified from varsity to club sport status. &#8220;Due to limited available fiscal and human resources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-3f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}