Speak Up: Wesley College to discontinue sports at the end of the year
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Wesley College told its athletics staff Monday afternoon that the school will be discontinuing its NCAA Division III sports programs at the end of the school year. The decision comes as the entire college is transitioning to becoming part of Delaware State University, which entered an agreement to take over some aspects of the Dover school last year. Wesley president Dr. Robert Clark said that the decision was made by Delaware State.
Should have kept Wesley sports and dropped DelState. At least they’d get some winning teams. — Bob Skuse
Wouldn’t all the athletes try out or play for DelState?— Ashley Mills
Yeah, well, obviously. It’s going to be DSU next year. — Skyler Sweeney
I could see the writing on the wall two years ago on a visit with my son for football. It’s a shame because staff was nice. — Lawrence C. Hudson
So for students that already have sports scholarships? I wonder how that’s going to work! — Heather Halfen
They don’t have “sports scholarships.” It’s all a part of the academic scholarships, which everyone is losing after this year! My daughter is in her second year there with a partial scholarship. She was told it’s gone next year! — Steve Trasser
There is no such thing as athletic scholarships for Division III athletics. When you see that a high school player has “signed” with a DIII team, it means nothing more than they have chosen to go to that school and attempt to make the team. They may get academic scholarships, but there is no such thing as a DIII athletic scholarship. Regardless, it’s a shame Wesley has done away with sports. One less opportunity for high schoolers to play at the next level. — Brendan Warner
This is no surprise. It’s not like they can actually have two different teams, when we know Wesley is now DelState.— Ronnie Ponde
They could have but chose not to. I get it (alum and athlete at Wesley) but they could have taken the model like many other institutions and used it as a satellite campus, i.e., Penn State-Harrisburg, Hazleton and Altoona or Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison, as well as many others. However, with the declining enrollment and money issues, this is just the first step to work to fix a partially broken system. — Kevin Yingling
