U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill ruled Wednesday that Quinnipiac University violated the law when it pulled funding from its women's volleyball team to support a competitive cheerleading squad.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut's Quinnipiac (KWIHN'-uh-pee-ak) University plans to keep its women's volleyball team and its competitive cheer squad as it follows a court order to bring its ...

(CBS 2/AP) --Quinnipiac University says it has plans to add more women's sports teams, after a judge rejected its attempt to replace the women's volleyball team with a competitive cheer squad.

Quinnipiac spokeswoman Lynn Bushnell said the school was disappointed its cheer team will lose varsity status. "We will continue to press for competitive cheer to become an officially recognized ...

School officials testified that the benefit of a competitive cheer team is more athletic opportunities for women at lower cost. Quinnipiac’s cheer team cost the school about $1,250 per roster ...

(CN) - Competitive cheerleading "does not qualify as a varsity sport for the purposes of Title IX," a federal judge in Connecticut ruled in barring Quinnipiac University from replacing its women's ...

BRIDGEPORT --It is unclear whether federal judge Stefan R. Underhill will offer an opinion on whether competitive cheerleading is a viable varsity sport or not. But, Underhill will have to decide ...

Quinnipiac University plans to keep its women’s volleyball team and its competitive cheer squad as it follows a court order to bring its athletics programs into compliance with federal gender ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Quinnipiac University plans to keep its women's volleyball team and its competitive cheer squad as it follows a court order to bring its athletics programs into compliance with ...

Quinnipiac had argued that if it could not count competitive cheerleading as a sport it might be forced to shut the program down, eliminating 36 positions on the squad. The cheerleading issue was ...

School officials testified that the benefit of a competitive cheer team is more athletic opportunities for women at lower cost. Quinnipiac's cheer team cost the school about $1,250 per roster spot ...

Underhill ruled in their favor, saying that competitive cheerleading had not developed ... acro lacks what every other varsity men's team sponsored by Quinnipiac enjoys: the chance to participate ...