Eric Panetta loves to crush it on the basketball court and the soccer field in front of roaring crowds. Since 2013, Panetta has participated as a Special Olympics New Jersey athlete with Rowan University’s Special Olympics Unified Sports intramural leagues.
Charles Small, senior associate athletic director for student services at Iowa State, offers tips on how student-athletes can form their own personal board of directors.
The NCAA recently caught up with Kevin Weiberg, the executive director of the College Football 150th Anniversary, to learn more about this season of celebration.
One hundred and fifty years of college football is reason to celebrate. Beyond the wins and losses, spirited rivalries and epic gridiron matchups, are the impactful lessons players carry with them for life.
When Cassandra Contigiani was a freshman in high school, she witnessed her first Special Olympics unified event at the New Hampshire high school girls soccer tournament.
On Nov. 6, 1869, two teams from East Coast universities took the field and kicked off a storied tradition. About 100 spectators cheered student-athletes from Princeton and Rutgers in what is regarded as the first collegiate football game in history.
A summer bridge program that serves incoming college athletes who need it most has reached the four-year mark. For Eagles athletics administrators, that means one important thing: It’s graduation time.
With states rapidly joining the action, athletics officials face new challenges to protect the welfare of student-athletes and the integrity of competition.
When the Division I Board of Directors decided in 2012 to increase the Academic Progress Rate’s benchmark from 900 to 930, it sought to push teams to meet a higher academic standard.
Greg Sankey, now one of the most influential figures in college sports, soaked in his first Division I Committee on Infractions hearing in August 1990 as an admittedly “wide-eyed” compliance director.
It’s that ability to square up to hardships and forge meaningful bonds that those who knew Jackie Jamaleddine during her time in college say they now miss most.
Within a single offseason, what was viewed by many as a grimy, shadowy industry became an acceptable, if not admired, opportunity. That wasn’t merely surprising — it was an earth-shaking, worldview-shifting moment.
While making history wasn’t easy, Nick Symmonds made it look that way. He won seven individual Division III outdoor track and field titles, more than any man at that time.
After a pair of unsuccessful attempts over the past decade to recalibrate Division III’s sport regions, a Division III Conference Commissioners Association subcommittee convened in 2016 to try to succeed where other efforts had fallen short.
This fall, the first students receiving educational dollars from the NCAA Division I Former Student-Athlete Degree Achievement Program will begin classes to reach a goal they didn’t achieve the first time around: a college degree.
With roughly 4 million former NCAA student-athletes around the world working in industries as varied as health care, engineering and finance, helping them find one another and build career connections is a big task.
