By Greg Johnson The Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee has decided to rescind the tiebreaker procedure it had recommended last week for singles and six-all set doubles competition. However, with support from the United States...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel during an Aug. 16 conference call approved several rules clarifications in Division III men’s volleyball, including not allowing the libero to serve. The Division III Men’s Volleyball...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org Octavia Blue had endured enough. She finally gave in when the Achilles tendon came unmoored and the knees perpetually swelled and the body pleaded for a respite from the barrage of sharp elbows and hard screens. “...
By Greg Johnson The Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee has recommended a new championships structure in which the number of days spent at the finals site decreases from 12 to eight. The recommendations also include creating a...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org When New Zealand native Anna Taylor was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer during her freshman year at Oregon State, the stand-out rower and her family were forced to make a heart-wrenching decision: bring her home,...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org Basketball rescued Larry House. Then basketball got in his way. The sport, played on hard streets and under soft light in high school gyms, provided a welcome escape throughout a trying youth. It brought him to a...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org For 29 years, Ben Shaffar’s ambitions were confined to the 60-feet, 6-inches between the edge of the pitching rubber and the tip of home plate. His greatest triumphs and most agonizing disappointments occurred in...
Women’s rowing is one of three Division I sports whose championship brackets will expand in 2013. In August, the NCAA Executive Committee approved a budget that included a recommendation from the Division I Championships/Sport Management...
By Gary Brown When the NCAA Executive Committee signed off on expansion for the Division I Women’s Rowing Championship earlier this month, it was cause for celebration not only for the rowing community but also for the committee that...
By Greg Johnson As NCAA teams prepare to start in-season competition this fall, fans will see several rules changes in football, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, field hockey, and men’s water polo. Each of those sport’s rules...
By Brian Hendrickson NCAA student-athletes faced off against their first opponents of the fall season in the last two weeks. They’ve lined up against intense August heat, following a game plan of proper hydration and rest periods to avoid...
NCAA student-athletes – there were at least 132 current or enrolled student-athletes that participated – performed very well during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. NCAA student-athletes combined to win 47 medals (22 gold, 11 silver and...
By Greg Johnson The Division I Baseball Committee is examining the possibility of seeding up to 16 teams for future championships. Currently, the committee seeds eight teams in the 64-team field. Committee members believe that expanding...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Division I is considering loosening some recruiting rules to allow coaches to communicate in writing with prospects as young as eighth grade – but only on the subject of the new academic standards for DI student-...
Anucha Browne Sanders has been selected as the NCAA’s vice president of women’s basketball championships. In this role, Browne Sanders will set the strategic direction for, and oversee the operation and management of, the Division I, II...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch has been interested in sports as long as he can remember. He went to a laboratory high school on the campus of the University of South Carolina, which exposed him early to the...
The NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL and the NHL) today filed a complaint against New Jersey state officials in federal court in Trenton, NJ seeking to stop the state from implementing sports betting on...
Nearly 130 NCAA female student-athletes representing multiple sports across NCAA Divisions I, II and III have been selected as 2012 Woman of the Year honorees by their athletics conferences and by independent schools. Next, the Woman of...
NCAA student-athletes - there are at least 132 current or enrolled student-athletes participating in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London – had an impressive first week of competition. Through Sunday, NCAA student-athletes have combined to...
By Brian Hendrickson I kept thinking about how a young student-athlete could find this experience embarrassing and awkward as I stood in the restroom of Drake University’s tennis center last June, providing the first athletics-event drug...
By Gary Brown SSF helps schools combat economic crisis The Supplemental Support Fund was created in 2007 to support efforts to invest in student-athletes’ academic success at limited-resource schools in Division I and to meet increasing...
By Greg Johnson Looking to increase the pace of play in the sport, the Men’s Lacrosse Rules Committee recommended a 30-second countdown for teams to take a shot after the referee has issued a stall warning. All rules recommendations by the...
By Gary Brown Simon Fraser University of Burnaby, B.C., effectively was approved as the NCAA’s first international member Wednesday when the NCAA Executive Committee supported modifying the Association’s accreditation policies to account...
The Division I Board of Directors on Thursday endorsed sweeping recommendations to change the NCAA’s enforcement model. The Board stopped short of a binding vote, allowing the membership until its October meeting to voice final feedback on...
By Greg Johnson A new selection process to be followed only in the event that bowl-eligible teams in the Football Bowl Subdivison are exhausted was approved Thursday by the Division I Board of Directors. The board was concerned that...
