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It has been a month since players and coaches of the men’s and women’s tennis teams received news that the sport was being placed on hiatus. Now, after much deliberation and re-evaluation of the issue, tennis players are rejoicing, or at least some of them are.

The administration’s decision to cut the La Verne tennis teams has motivated several students to begin a petition to reinstate them.

The cancellation of the men’s and women’s tennis teams has caused a stir among the coaches and players. And yet the reason for the team’s cancellation still doesn’t add up.

Interim Athletic Director Julie Kline met with the men’s and women’s tennis teams Tuesday to announce that both programs will be cut – at least for the next several years – effective at the end of the current season.