Indiana University freshmen student-athletes Peter Jurkin and Hanner Perea must miss nine games, according to an appeal decision announced on Friday by the NCAA Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement. Jurkin and Perea have already sat...
By Nancy L. Meyer Title IX, the mandate that requires equal educational and athletics opportunity at federally funded educational institutions, became law when I was a high school athlete. Unfortunately for me and my teammates, the new law...
Five NCAA student-athletes are among the 32 Rhodes Scholars selected from the United States for 2013. The five winners who have participated in NCAA championship sports are Kiley Hunkler, Army women’s lacrosse; Dakota McCoy, Yale women’s...
Champion Digital | Videos by Courtney Cronin | Story by Kayci Woodley “It’s just as passionate and tension-ridden as any game you’re ever going to play in. It’s like playing in the Super Bowl. If you lose you’re labeled a loser and if you...
A former University of Tennessee assistant football coach knowingly worked with a booster to provide impermissible travel and lodging to a prospective student-athlete, according to findings by the Division I Committee on Infractions. The...
The NCAA and UCLA have resolved the eligibility case of Shabazz Muhammad. UCLA acknowledged amateurism violations occurred and asked the NCAA on Friday afternoon to reinstate Muhammad. The university required the student-athlete to miss 10...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Next semester Loren Shealy will experience a part of life that no North Carolina or Duke student-athlete has had in their undergraduate career. Shealy, a member of the top-seeded North Carolina field hockey team...
By Jennifer Gunnels For NCAA.org Marge Redmond believes field hockey is in her genes. Currently in her 13th season as the head coach at Ohio Wesleyan University, Redmond’s love of the game has undoubtedly been passed on to the next...
By Cameron Schuh Mark Lewis, executive vice president of championships and alliances, and Dan Gavitt, vice president of men’s basketball, have been named to the USA Basketball Board of Directors. Their terms begin in 2013 and run through...
By Kayci Woodley NCAA.org Division III student-athlete Michael Buric is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. Organizing, managing and taking risks are part of his daily life, and have been since high school. Buric’s professionalism...
UCLA student-athlete Shabazz Muhammad is not eligible to compete in tonight’s game due to violations of NCAA amateurism rules. In addition to other pending issues, Muhammad accepted travel and lodging during three unofficial visits to two...
The NCAA took another step this week to defend its longstanding principles of amateurism in the current O’Bannon case regarding student-athlete likeness. The NCAA filed a brief in federal court Thursday reiterating its position that...
Six former student-athletes have been selected as recipients of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. The Silver Anniversary Award annually recognizes distinguished individuals on the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of their collegiate...
By Gary Brown Last January, many Division III delegates said they were unprepared to vote on a proposal to require sickle cell trait status confirmation status, which caused its referral from the Convention floor for further review without...
Eastern Michigan University failed to monitor its women’s basketball program and the former head women’s basketball coach failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance within the program, according to findings by the Division I Committee...
By Brian Hendrickson NCAA.org Victoria Donegan thought Staten Island slipped away from Hurricane Sandy’s devastating punch as the worst of the storm blew through on Oct. 29. The goalkeeper on the College of Staten Island soccer team rode...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org When it comes to politics and college sports, one of the most recognizable names is Tom Osborne, who coached the Nebraska Cornhuskers to 255 wins and two national championships in football and then became the...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org This year’s presidential election is an experience dozens of NCAA student-athletes will never forget. With all three of the debates being held at college campuses, student-athletes were among the attendees...
The NCAA staff will use altered guidelines when determining which student-athletes will receive waivers of the rule that requires some student-athletes to sit out a year of competition after transfer. Members of the Division I Legislative...
The NCAA has selected 10 extraordinary student-athletes who will be honored in January as the Today’s Top 10 Award winners. The NCAA Today’s Top 10 Award recognizes student-athletes who completed their athletics eligibility during the 2011...
By David Pickle Division II’s 40th year will be one of its most important, as shown by the overarching strategies and priorities that were approved Tuesday at the fall meeting of the Division II Presidents Council. “We are at an important...
By Gary Brown Sickle cell trait status confirmation for Division III student-athletes got a financial boost Tuesday when the Presidents Council authorized a one-time allocation to help schools defray the costs of testing if a proposal to...
Bob Boerigter, commissioner of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, and Karen Stromme, assistant athletics director at the University of Minnesota Duluth, have been elected chair and vice chair of the Division II...
By Gary Brown The Division III Presidents Council at its meeting on Tuesday reviewed a third year of data from a voluntary academic reporting program showing that student-athletes in general graduate at rates higher than their student-body...
