State lawmakers agreed Monday to withdraw a bill forcing the University of Tennessee to reinstate the “Lady Vols” nickname for all of its women’s sports teams in return for a Lady Vols commemorative patch on all women’s sports uniforms for the 2016-17 school year.
The exception is women’s basketball, which has kept the nickname anyway.
After the 2016-17 year, individual women athletes would be allowed to have the commemorative patch on their uniforms at their discretion.
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