Some of the wrestlers who had their program cut by a Southern California private college are using a counterintuitive tactic to try to save it.
On Thursday, three male wrestlers from California Baptist University, a private religious school in Riverside, filed a lawsuit in the Central District of California against their own school. The lawsuit alleges that the school’s decision earlier this year to shut down three athletic programs — wrestling, men’s swimming and diving, and men’s golf — violated Title IX.
“CBU did not eliminate these teams because they were failing, because of money, or because of space. It eliminated them for one reason only: the sex of the students who participate in them,” the athletes argue in the filing…