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Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’

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June 16, 2022
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University of Iowa's Alexa Puccini competes in the 200-yard individual medley during an NCAA Big Ten Conference swimming and diving meet, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, in Iowa City, Iowa. In late 2020, several women's athletes at the University of Iowa sued after the school announced it was cutting men's and women's swimming and diving, men's tennis and men's gymnastics. Sage Ohlensehlen was a senior swimmer and headed up the lawsuit, while Alexa Puccini was a freshman swimmer. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)

 

Alexa Puccini was just a few days into her freshman year at Iowa, working out with a couple other members of the women’s swimming and diving team. It was August 2020 and she was finally on campus after committing as a junior in high school.

A couple hours later, the group was walking to an emergency meeting at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Puccini said they were wondering, “like, maybe our season’s done because of COVID” and noticing the email about the meeting included “both men and women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis and men’s gymnastics … it’s an interesting group to put together.”

The coaches were lined up against the wall. The athletes, socially distanced, sat in chairs. Athletic director Gary Barta delivered the stunning news — the four teams were going to be cut after the 2020-21 school year due to COVID-19-related budget issues — and left.

“It was very, very emotional. I just couldn’t believe it. … I’m like, this cannot be real,” Puccini said. “It was such an awful experience.”

 

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