By Greg Johnson The Division I Football Championship Committee at its meeting last week in Indianapolis decided it prefers to seed the top eight teams if the championship expands its bracket to 24 teams. The committee, which reviewed...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick The most difficult experience Eugene Daniels faced as a student-athlete also became his gateway to life after college. A defensive lineman for the Colorado State Rams, Daniels injured his shoulder just before his...
The NCAA is awarding 26 scholarships worth $6,000 apiece to 13 ethnic minority and 13 female recipients as part of its annual Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Scholarship program. Developed to increase opportunities for qualified...
By Andrew Crum NCAA.org At the age of 16, Sarah Lockenmeyer found inspiration at an unlikely time: while her mother was being treated for breast cancer. Rather than experiencing the usual sadness or anger, Lockenmeyer did what she always...
By Gary Brown The Division III Championships Committee has endorsed changes in team selection criteria designed to strengthen institutions’ commitment to in-region play while giving sport committees the flexibility to determine regional...
By Zak Keefer NCAA.org He’s always relished the underdog role, so maybe that’s why Jeff Kassouf feels at home doing what he does. While you’d be hard-pressed to find an aspiring sportswriter with dreams of one day being the nation’s...
By Greg Johnson The Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP) during its conference call on Tuesday approved moving the kickoff and touchback lines beginning with the 2012 football season. Next fall, teams will kick off at the 35-yard line...
By Gary Brown The Division III Membership Committee is recommending refinements in the consequences for conferences that fall below the required seven core members and are still below the minimum composition requirement after the two-year...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Multiyear scholarship legislation, one of several measures the Division I Board of Directors adopted in the wake of an August 2011 presidential retreat, was upheld in a membership override vote that concluded...
By Marta Lawrence A luncheon celebrating collegiate women’s athletics and the 40 th anniversary of Title IX was sponsored today by the NCAA at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Conference on Women in Sport—a global conference in...
Turner Sports, CBS Sports and the NCAA today announced that NCAA March Madness Live, formerly March Madness on Demand, will now provide college basketball fans with more opportunities to watch every minute of every game of the 2012 NCAA...
By David Pickle West Texas A&M President Pat O’Brien became chair of the Division II Presidents Council at the conclusion of the 2012 Convention. O’Brien is especially well-suited to the role, having served a year as Council vice chair...
Gettysburg’s 83-69 men’s basketball victory over Washington College on Saturday didn’t end on a buzzer beater, but it sure was a one-point win for Bullets’ senior guard Cory Weissman. Weissman, who suffered a life-threatening stroke while...
By Jack Copeland A new generation of Division III videos based on the “Discover/Develop/Dedicate” language of the division’s identity initiative is now available online, and versions that can be customized for school or conference use will...
By Gary Brown How to approach what may be the next big discussion item for Division III began taking shape last week when the Interpretations and Legislation Committee recommended appointing a representative working group to consider...
By Andrew Crum NCAA.org Every semester, Molloy College art professor Kathleen Mahoney likes to challenge her students with a project that allows them to work outside their basic curriculum, to pique their creativity and experience working...
By Ty Halpin The NCAA Football Rules Committee, which met Tuesday-Thursday in Charlotte, N.C., has recommended several rules proposals intended to enhance student-athlete safety for the 2012 season. Even though it is a non-rules change...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org The most notable thing about Connecticut College Faculty Athletics Representative Stan Ching is his smile. The guy’s always wearing one – usually a bright, genuine, enameled version. He’s also usually wearing a short...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Victor Williams was born in a Unification Church-run community house in Washington, D.C. From there, he went from homeless shelters and periods when he was living out of a car. Through it all, Williams and his...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Jasmine Johnson took a circuitous route to Saint Leo after leaving the University of Florida’s soccer program during her sophomore year. She worked different jobs near her Tampa home and played club soccer in the...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org Hope College women’s basketball coach Brian Morehouse is into numbers as a hoops guru, but he’s also into a different kind of math. It’s called “the multiplier effect.” That’s what he’s after every time one of his...
T his article appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Champion magazine. By David Pickle At the 2005 Division II Presidents and Chancellors Summit, a young president from an East Coast school crystallized a complex Division II membership...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Water Polo Rules Subcommittee at its meeting last month recommended changes to the men’s game that include shortening the length of the course to 25 meters and going to a 30-second shot clock starting in the 2012-...
By David Pickle Two Division II conferences recently did their parts to advance the dreams of young women interested in careers in college athletics. The Peach Belt Conference conducted its fourth PBC Women in Athletics Seminar, which...
By Kristen Leigh Porter NCAA.org David Baas felt a little embarrassed. The NFL player was talking to kids about staying in school and getting an education but hadn’t earned his degree at Michigan, where he was the Big Ten’s offensive...
