Quinnipiac University says it has plans to add more women's sports teams, after a judge rejected its attempt to replace the women's volleyball team with a competitive cheer squad.

BRIDGEPORT --It is unclear whether federal judge Stefan R. Underhill will offer an opinion on whether competitive cheerleading is a viable varsity sport or not. But, Underhill will have to decide ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled last week in ordering a Connecticut school to ...

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut's Quinnipiac (KWIHN'-uh-pee-ak) University plans to keep its women's volleyball team and its competitive cheer squad as it follows a court order to bring its ...

The Quinnipiac University women's volleyball team picked up another major victory in federal court Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill ruled that competitive cheerleading is not ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Connecticut has again ruled that competitive cheerleading, despite some upgrades, is not a sport, and says Quinnipiac University must remain under an injunction that ...

A judge has ruled that Quinnipiac University violated the rights of female athletes when it tried to get rid of the women’s volleyball team and replace it with competitive cheerleading. In doing ...

The judge in the recent Quinnipiac University case (“Is Cheerleading a Sport?,” The Chronicle, July 21) declared that “competitive cheerleading team does not qualify as a varsity sport for ...

Five members of the Quinnipiac University women's volleyball team, and the team's coach, have sued the school for dismantling the team to use the money for a cheerleading squad.

In Quinnipiac’s case, the judge noted that the university created the new team by hiring the woman who formerly coached the traditional sideline cheerleading squad.

BRIDGEPORT -- A federal judge found Quinnipiac University violated the law by failing to provide equal athletic opportunities to its female athletes, particularly by eliminating the women's ...