Dear CollegeSwimming.com
I am writing to you both in an effort to help mobilize the national college swimming community via your website in an effort to help save the URI Varsity Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving Teams from a budget cut.

Currently, I am the Senior Coach with the Rams Swim Club and Head Coach of the North Kingstown High School swim team. I have been able to see, first hand, over the last 6 years the growth of swimming in Rhode Island, especially around the URI Campus. Our club swim team swims out of URI and has gone from 30kids to close to 100. As I'm sure you know, the possibility for many of your swimmers to be able to someday swim at that level is what keeps them coming. Without the Varsity team I feel this will have a huge negative impact on the growth of the sport in Rhode Island.

What I am hoping is we can fight this off and be able to visit collegeswimming.com and see a success story of a teams survival rather than another team falling victim to massive budget cuts (thanks to football) and title 9.

Please visit our website here: www.ramswimming.com

And if possible post something up on your website so we could possibly gain even more support from the national college swimming community.

Thanks in advance for you help and again hopefully we can make this one of the success stories and show other universities that swimming will not go down without a fight!

Sincerely,

Matt Emmert
Senior Coach
Rams Swim Club
swimrams@hotmail.com