Months after a program-defining moment, Grambling golf is on the chopping block.
Continuing efforts to balance a teetering budget could, in fact, result in GSU dropping as many as four sports — men’s and women’s golf, as well as the school’s tennis teams.
But Coach Tegtira Thomas and the men’s golf squad, coming off their best showing ever, are perhaps the most notable possible cut: Jonathan Coleman shot low individual score at the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament to earn the area’s first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship.
That couldn’t save the team, Thomas said.
The eighth-year coach confirmed on Friday that his program has been slashed, and that Coleman will likely transfer to Jackson State — defending SWAC golf champion, and winner of that title in 21 of the last 22 seasons.
“He was the best player in conference, and they are the best team in conference,” Thomas said.
Thomas also said that tennis would be discontinued.
Athletics director J. Lin Dawson would not confirm any changes in Grambling’s sponsored sports, as he awaits an official release on the matter from the school president’s office.
“I’m not at liberty to talk about any specifics,” Dawson said, “but everything that we do in athletics had to be evaluated, and researched. We have gone through an extensive period of evaluation of everything, from personnel to travel to recruitment dollars. We’ve done it all. Nothing was left unscathed.”
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