Today the University of Calgary Athletic Department announced that the men’s soccer and women’s field hockey team will remain varsity sports at the University for the 2009-10 seasons.

From today’s Athletic Department press release: “CALGARY – Dinos Athletics is pleased to announce that both field hockey and men’s soccer will remain varsity sports at the University of Calgary in 2009-10 after the establishment of alternative funding models for both programs.

Due to snow on the pitch at the UC, the Senior Players/High Performance Jamboree is canceled this weekend (25-26).

The Calgary Herald’s Kristen Odland wrote a great piece on the program cuts:“The decision to cut all funding from the University of Calgary Dinos women’s field hockey and men’s soccer programs came as a total shock to Jenn Swagar.