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New York Chapter

The New York Chapter of Equity in Athletics (EIA) is dedicated to preserving broad-based athletic programs at schools in New York. In particular, EIA's New York chapter is attempting to save both the men's and women's swim teams at Syracuse University.

If you are an athlete or coach in New York at the scholastic or intercollegiate level or a concerned parent, alumni, or fan of New York athletics, EIA presents an opportunity to overturn the engine behind the senseless cutting of men's sports and small-roster women's sports nationwide. Even if you are not affiliated with currently affected campuses, your scholastic or collegiate program could be in jeopardy from future cuts.

Join EIA

EIA is a nonprofit membership corporation, and does not charge dues or fees to its members. As a member, you would not be a named party to any of EIA's litigation, and EIA could not seek to recover money damages for you. But EIA can seek to repeal the three-part test on behalf of you and other EIA members.

EIA accepts both individual and institutional members. If your organization wants to join EIA, please contact members@equityinathletics.org. If you want to join as an individual, please complete the form below.

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Mission: What Are You Joining?

As indicated above, EIA will attempt to preserve broad-based athletic programs by suing the U.S. Department of Education to repeal Title IX's “three-part test,” under which schools must have athletic participation proportional to enrollment (prong 1), continually add new teams for one gender without also adding reciprocal sports for the other gender (prong 2), or fully meet one gender’s interests without fully meeting the other gender’s interests (prong 3). Repealing the three-part test would restore the original, interest-based Title IX regulations, thereby lessening the pressure to cut men’s teams and small-roster women’s teams.

While repealing the Three-Part Test could help both men’s and women’s teams by eliminating proportionality’s pressure to cut teams, repeal will remove the protections afforded women’s teams when schools downsize without reaching proportionality. But by eliminating the proportionality-based pressure that inspires many cuts in the first place, both men’s and women’s teams should benefit.

At Syracuse University, the school's elimination of both men's and women's swimming, while adding women's but not men's ice hockey, is an example how existing teams suffer under the Three-Part Test. EIA's New York chapter's argument against Syracuse is even stronger: (a) under EIA's view of the law, Syracuse cannot eliminate men's swimming, and (b) under the Department of Education's view of the law, Syracuse cannot eliminate women's swimming. EIA will attempt to enforce its view of the law and, in the alternative, the Department's view of the law. Either way, Syracuse University's actions against swimming are illegal.

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