UC Santa Cruz expanding athletics budget

Jim Seimas reports that Division III UCSC is providing $800k to Slug intercollegiate athletics.

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Sluggish for decades to support its athletics department, UC Santa Cruz announced Friday that it will more than triple funding for its NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports programs for up to three years.

The plan, effective this spring, calls for an increase to coaching salaries, the addition of health benefits for coaches, improved team travel options and the addition of two new athletic trainers, giving the Slugs a total of four.

The news comes less than two months after a Sentinel report revealed long-running shortcomings within the department compared to other four-year schools at the D-III level across the nation. The majority of UCSC's coaches, some of the lowest paid in the U.S., receive between $10,000-20,000 a year with no benefits. Many work multiple jobs to make ends meet...

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This should give Men's Basketball Coach Ron DuBois' program a boost.