Sad news in a long article in this month's Billiards Digest.
Lindenwood University has decided to shut down Mark Wilson's billiard training program there. This is really hard to understand considering how successful the program was -- six straight national titles in both men's and women's divisions.
Lindenwood declined to comment for the article.
It appears from comments made in the article that the school was not seeing enough financial return from the program. The scholarships that the top players got evidently were only about 10% of the annual fees of about $30,000.
This seems to have been a while coming as the funding for the program had already been considerably reduced.
Lindenwood University has decided to shut down Mark Wilson's billiard training program there. This is really hard to understand considering how successful the program was -- six straight national titles in both men's and women's divisions.
Lindenwood declined to comment for the article.
It appears from comments made in the article that the school was not seeing enough financial return from the program. The scholarships that the top players got evidently were only about 10% of the annual fees of about $30,000.
This seems to have been a while coming as the funding for the program had already been considerably reduced.