Paxin, Chelsea, Tyler Clifton

The four teams we choose (Football (75), Women's Track and Field (65), Men's Track and Field (55), and Men's/Women's Swimming (60)) to get fundraising for each member. We choose these sports because they had the most athletes participating. For the alum donation, we took the donation and put it to the entire athletic department instead of one particular program. For each team, we looked at the number athletes and the needs that should be met based on these numbers. For the $10,700 left over we looked at the teams rank in the conference. The higher the rank team the more money was allocated. For example, softball is ranked first so we ended up giving an extra $1000 for bats due to their success. We ended up cutting cheerleading completely because they weren't ranked and had the most needs as far as total cost. I believe by cutting cheerleading Title IX would remain in compliance because most programs do not consider cheerleading a sport and that was not defined in the budget if it was a sport or not. Also, they had a trip to Hawaii which took up unnecessary funds and could have been spent else where. We used the costs from Hawaii that was not spent on the cheerleading team to the women’s and men’s soccer team which was ranked both 3^rd to purchase new jerseys. In the future, we should utilize pay-to-play instead of cutting the program completely. That way it is still avaliable for those interested to play.