The decision to cut four varsity sports from Eastern Michigan University’s athletics program hit the student body and faculty hard.
According to Mid-American conference freshman of the year swimmer Carter Swift, the decision was broken to the teams by EMU President James Smith and Athletic Director Scott Wetherbee at around 10:20 a.m. March 20, during an early morning meeting inside the inner sanctum of the EMU Convocation Center.
“We all walked in,” Swift said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon before trailing off. “We threw around ideas about what may happen last night. No one spoke too much.