I thought that Georgetown uses some high school track?
That was the case back in the day, and they would sometimes use the American U track for workouts as well. Not sure if Georgetown has gotten it's own track more recently, but it not, they've got to be at the top of the list of highly successful programs without a track.
You should look up the word. It means to provide funds for. They sponsor it. They spend more money on it than many D1 schools do. They compete in 4 indoor and 4 outdoor meets the same as other schools do. Yes it is different than most teams but the school is the sponsor. And yes they are listed in TFRRS as Northwestern team in the descending order list. This isn't controversial. The school pays for the coach and the facilities and the doctor and the therapist and the travel and the food and everything else involved.
You should spend some time reading up on the NCAA rules around sponsorship instead of Merriam-Webster.
NW may pay for stuff, but because they don't officially sponsor track in the NCAA view, their athletes cannot attend the NCAA championships. For some kids (especially the ones that could go pro) that would be a deal breaker.
I might suggest that instead of relying on bizarre technical meanings of normal words that also have different normal meanings, we just say what we mean in normal English. Northwestern funds a track team, but it isn’t eligible to participate in certain NCAA events, for complicated bureaucratic reasons that most people wouldn’t understand and have no real reason to care about.
You are correct. Northwestern competes I as many meets as other teams. The school sponsors the coach and the training and the travel and the uniforms. Ask 100 of your friends if that means the women are competing in track. Two years later, when the women tell their coworkers that they competed all over the country in 50 track meets for Northwestern during their time in college, I would live to see one of the naysayers here step into the conversation and call the woman a liar.
Yes. Northwestern sponsors a track team. You are correct. People are claiming that bypassing B10 and regionals means they somehow aren't running. Somebody pointed out Norr Dame football. Nobody claims that they don't sponsor football.
NW doesn't sponsor track as a D1 sport. I think we got that sorted a long time ago. Not on their website, not going to national championships., not going to a conference championships.... they run on a track as a XC team.
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