- Sport-by-Sport Statistics
- NCAA Media Center
- Latest News
- NCAA issues waiver decision for Ole Miss student-athlete
- Get it right on tennis participation opportunities
- Kennesaw State will host 2011 NCAA Women's College Cup
- A numbers game for minority football head coaches
- Grand Valley State, West Texas A&M kick off DII season
- Coe student-athlete parlays learning into action
- Set for life: Catching up with the 1996 volleyball national players of the year
- Football stakeholders seek progress on agent issue
- New football season, new football rules
- Cole helped NCAA navigate litigious landscape
- Get it right on pay-for-play issue
- NCAA’s Dennis Cryder went pro in something other than sports
- Lone Star announces exit plan for departing institutions
- Cancer survivor ready for 2010 football season
- Division III debates baseball re-entry proposal
- Saint Vincent and Chatham volleyball coaches share familial bond
- Meet the latest NCAA Student-Athlete Sportsmanship Award winners
- Resources available to navigate supplement field
- To take or not to take: Supplements often put athletes at risk
- Tom Jernstedt's four decades of service
- Husson couple vows to achieve
- Washington and Jefferson coach can endure success
- Athletics community banded together after Katrina
- Five years after Katrina, institutions show resilience
- Like fathers, like sons for Georgia football team
- Record-setting running back Johnny Bailey dies at 43
- Turf monster: West Texas A&M opens huge athletics complex
- Sun Belt sportsmanship program confirms coach influence
- President says DII can play key higher-ed role for Hispanics
- Mountain West to add Fresno State, Nevada
- GNAC seminar cites mental health among athlete concerns
- Former student-athlete talks about battle with mental illness
- Football is more than a game for campuses
- Organizations join in effort to address agent issues
- Latest revenues and expense data reveal effects of slumping economy
- South Florida President Genshaft to chair DI Board
- Commentary on APR changing football recruiting and retention
- DIII presidents endorse leadership proposals
- Presidents see education as antidote to drug testing in DIII
- Quinnipiac to add golf, rugby for women
- News Releases
- Behind the Blue Disk
- Research
- Events
- Recruiting Calendars
- Postseason Football
- Basketball Resources
- Corporate Relationships
Earlier
Competitive cheerleading case could affect Title IX landscape: A U.S. district court in Connecticut ruled that Quinnipiac’s competitive-cheerleading squad cannot be used to meet Title IX requirements. The ruling may affect other NCAA institutions interested in sponsoring competitive cheer as a varsity sport. Read the story
OCR requirements
According to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, to be counted as a varsity sport for Title IX purposes, a sport must:
- Be administered by the athletics department in a manner consistent with established varsity sports.
- Offer athletics scholarships and recruit participants.
- Have practice opportunities and regular-season competitive opportunities similar to established varsity sports (including a season length, schedule and length of play determined by a governing athletics organization).
- Conduct state, conference or national championships.
- Exist for the purpose of athletics competition, not to support or promote other athletics activities (including a specific set of rules with objective and standardized criteria, a progressive postseason and selection of participants based primarily on athletics ability).
Latest News
Quinnipiac to add golf, rugby for women
Quinnipiac will keep its women’s volleyball and competitive cheer teams, while also adding women’s golf and rugby teams to provide more athletics opportunities for female student-athletes, according to a plan filed in federal court last week.
Several women’s volleyball players and their coach sued the university in March 2009 when Quinnipiac cut women’s volleyball, men’s golf and men’s outdoor track to help balance its budget. The school added competitive cheer. The women’s volleyball players alleged that the university violated Title IX.
Last month, a federal court decided that competitive cheer as conducted by Quinnipiac was not a sport that could be used to meet Title IX requirements. Judge Stefan Underhill ordered the school to keep volleyball for a year and develop a plan to comply with the federal anti-discrimination law.
While not an NCAA championship sport, rugby is considered an emerging sport by the Association.
“Quinnipiac University plans to increase its investment in women’s athletics in the years ahead,” Lynn Bushnell, the school’s vice president for public affairs, said in a prepared statement.
Mark Thompson, senior vice president for academic and student affairs, monitor all team rosters. The school had been found to engage in deceptive roster practices.
The court must approve Quinnipiac’s plan.
