CLEVELAND - The Cleveland State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will be adding the sport of women's golf and reinstating the men's tennis team to its roster, beginning in the fall of 2000, Director of Athletics John Konstantinos announced today.

With the addition of the two, Cleveland State will have 16 sports competing at the NCAA Division I level.

"We are extremely pleased to be able to offer increased competitive opportunities at the Division I level to our students, present and future," Konstantinos said. "The addition of women's golf and the reinstatement of men's tennis speaks to the vitality of the athletic department and the university as a whole and acknowledges the burgeoning growth of these sports in the Northeast Ohio area."

Men's tennis, which suspended competition after the spring season in 1992, will return to take full advantage of the Robert S. Malaga Tennis Center, CSU's six-court facility which was built in 1997. Men's tennis had competed as a varsity sport at Cleveland State from 1965 to 1992. In addition, the program originated as one of Fenn College's programs in 1932 through the conversion to CSU with the exception of 1935-39 and 1943-47. Tennis will compete in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.

Women's golf will be added to capitalize on the growing interest in the sport. Cleveland State, which will join Butler University as a MCC school sponsoring women's golf, will compete as an independent.