A U.S. District Court judge has barred Concordia University Irvine from eliminating the school’s women’s swimming and diving, and women’s tennis programs or any other women’s varsity team during the 2025-26 academic year.

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Judge Fred W. Slaughter granted a preliminary injunction on Friday preventing the Irvine Division II university from dropping the women’s programs. The injunction came five months after Concordia announced it was dropping its men’s and women’s tennis and swimming programs at the end of the 2024-25 academic year as part of what the school characterized as a “strategic restructuring.”

In granting the injunction, Slaughter also ordered that “To the extent that those teams have already been eliminated, CUI shall immediately reinstate them, and provide the

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