After being told last month that the team would be cut after the 2015 fall season, it appears the CSU Monterey Bay men's cross country team is off of the chopping block.
Jaime Madrigal, a senior on the CSUMB men's cross country team, said coach Greg Rhines had a meeting with the team Wednesday morning and told the athletes that the program was not being dropped. Madrigal says the runners were also told that the school plans on adding a men's track team in the next one to three years.
On March 12, another team meeting was held with CSUMB's athletic director, Kirby Garry, and the runners were told of plans to cut the team. The following week, Garry told The Herald that no decision had been made regarding the future of the program.
Immediately after the athletes learned of what seemed to be the impending demise of their program, they took to social media with the hashtag #SaveMBXC and created an online petition on Change.org. The petition has more than 2,200 signatures.
CSUMB currently has a women's cross country team and a women's track team. The women's track team, currently competing this season for the first time since it was established, shares all of its athletes with the cross country squad.
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