The National Collegiate Athletic Association and LEAD1 Association have agreed to conduct a joint study of university and college insurance practices and how they support student-athletes.
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee discussed overarching issues regarding the future of the game during its annual meeting this week in Indianapolis.
When the Division I membership created the Academic Performance Program, leaders insisted that the goal of the new academic standards and accompanying penalties for missing the mark was to inspire schools to improve, not to punish them.
Seventeen Division I teams will be ineligible for the postseason in 2017-18 due to their low Academic Progress Rates, compared with 23 teams last year.
The Sport Science Institute is working to ensure student-athletes are also paying attention to a facet of their lives they may sacrifice for the sake of busy schedules: sleep.
The NCAA’s updated Revenue Distribution System is now available for members to review distribution data and financial benefits statements dating back to 2001. The updates to the system, as well as some process changes — detailed in an...
The NCAA Division III Infractions Appeals Committee upheld findings that a former Baruch assistant vice president provided impermissible financial aid for a student-athlete.
May 23 Athletics directors Methodist Vice President and Director of Athletics Bob McEvoy is retiring. McEvoy has worked at Methodist for 25 years, the past 19 as its director of athletics. McEvoy also previously served as men’s basketball...
The NCAA today recognized more than 1,200 Division I teams for outstanding academic achievements. Based on their most recent multiyear Academic Progress Rates, these teams have earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards for posting scores in the top 10 percent of their sport.
The former head women’s basketball coach at Florida International University acted unethically and did not promote an atmosphere of compliance in his program when he provided $600 in cash to a student-athlete.
Traditional two-a-day football practices in the preseason will no longer be permissible in Division II, the Division II Presidents Council determined this week. At its April 25-26 meeting in Indianapolis, the council voted to adopt emergency legislation to align the division with new health and safety recommendations endorsed by the NCAA’s Sport Science Institute and leading scientific and sports medicine organizations.
The NCAA Board of Governors on Tuesday formally ratified the Association-wide health and safety agenda by building on the cutting-edge work of the NCAA Sport Science Institute and the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.
The Division I Board of Directors will control division-specific financial matters through a newly created Finance Committee, members decided Wednesday.
Gritt Broening of Fairleigh Dickinson and Samson Oyediran of Tennessee State were named the first recipients of the Accelerating Academic Success Program Career Development Award. The grant is the first of its kind for students who attend Accelerating Academic Success Program-eligible schools and plan to pursue a career in athletics.
Two membership-led groups came together Thursday to advance a series of recommendations for promoting diversity, inclusion and equity in the NCAA. The recommendations were developed by the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force and — in a joint meeting preceding the NCAA Inclusion Forum in Providence, Rhode Island — were approved by the NCAA Board of Governors Ad Hoc Committee to Promote Cultural Diversity and Equity.
The Division I Committee on Academics gave final approval to a new resource intended to help high-level leaders on campus assess and discuss the academic well-being of student-athletes at their school.
The national Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has set its goals for the coming year. An inaugural divisionwide SAAC regional convention, student-athlete mental health and CPR/AED certification are among the eight core areas on which the committee members will focus their efforts.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rule, effective Dec. 1, 2018, requiring all newly constructed or resurfaced indoor tracks to be surveyed for a curb and to have a regulation curb in place for competition.
The NCAA disbursed today a sum of $200 million in additional financial assistance to support programs that benefit Division I student-athletes in their academic success, life skills, career success, health and safety and student-athlete focused diversity and inclusion initiatives.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee approved a rule prohibiting defensive players from running toward the line of scrimmage to leap or hurdle offensive linemen to block field goal and point-after-touchdown attempts, beginning with the 2017 season.
Student-athletes at George Washington and Georgian Court have earned the 2017 NCAA Team Works Helper Helper Community Service Competition award for their community outreach efforts.
The NCAA has selected more than 600 host sites for preliminary rounds and finals of predetermined championships in Divisions I, II and III to be held from 2017-18 through 2021-22.
Beginning this spring, a new group will study Division I transfer rules to consider where improvements can be made. The work of the Division I Transfer Working Group will be guided by a presidential perspective from the Division I Board of Directors and the Presidential Forum.
Download the April 2017 Alabama Public Infractions Decision A former Alabama assistant football coach acted unethically when he provided false or misleading information about impermissible recruiting contacts, according to a Division I...
The Division I Council acted Friday to offer potential Division I football student-athletes earlier opportunities for official visits to college campuses and increase their access to college coaches. The Council also acted to make the recruiting environment more transparent and better tied to high schools.
Division I football players will no longer practice on the field multiple times a day in the preseason, the Division I Council decided at its April 13-14 meeting in Indianapolis.
In a move to swiftly align Division II rules with new NCAA football health and safety recommendations, the Division II Management Council on Tuesday voted in support of a proposal to ban two-a-day practices during the Division II football preseason.
April 21 Presidents and chancellors — Dr. Robert C. Robbins , president and CEO of Texas Medical Center since 2012 and a cardiac surgeon, was named president of Arizona. He is scheduled to start at the university June 1 … Mary Holz-Clause...
A former prep school coach named in The University of Southern Mississippi infractions case will not have to serve a two-year show-cause order because the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee vacated the finding of a violation against him.
In mid-May, the NCAA will launch updates to the Revenue Distribution System. These updates, detailed below, will allow for expedited cash flow to members, as well as provide more detailed payment information. The system, used by members to...
