Report: Temple University to cut 7 intercollegiate sports

Temple's mascot, Stella, will have fewer sporting events to attend beginning next year. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

Temple University's Board of Trustees approved a recommendation from athletic director Kevin Clark to cut its baseball, softball, men's crew, women's rowing, men's gymnastics and men's indoor/outdoor track and field teams on Friday, according to Joey Cranney of The Temple News student newspaper.

The move will take effect on July 1, 2014, and affect approximately 150 student-athletes and nine full-time coaches.

Student-athletes under scholarship are guaranteed financial aid for the rest of their schooling and can transfer without sitting out a year.

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Clark began a year-long review into the athletics department finances shortly after he arrived at Temple last year.

“I spent a lot of time looking at the business model … we could not sustain that model going forward,” Clark said Friday in an athletics committee public session, which met before the overall board made its decision.