By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Division I took its first steps toward a rulebook that is more meaningful, enforceable and supportive of student-athlete success when the Board of Directors on Saturday adopted a set of proposals aimed at...
By David Pickle The 2014 NCAA Convention will be one to remember for Division II – and not just because it will be in sunny San Diego. Not in recent memory have so many issues appeared to be converging on a single Division II event...
By Gary Brown Story highlights Division III adopted a proposal at the Convention business session on Saturday requiring confirmation of sickle cell trait status for all student-athletes no later than the 2014-15 academic year. The vote to...
By Gary Brown To prepare for Saturday’s business session that includes membership voting on a proposal to require schools to confirm their student-athletes’ sickle cell trait status no later than 2014-15 (Proposal No. 4 in the Official...
By David Pickle Medical and related expenses and services now may be provided to student-athletes after the Division II Presidents Council on Thursday approved emergency legislation that deregulates Bylaw 16.4. The legislation, recommended...
By David Pickle The most recent SCORE report for Division II provides a wealth of data, most of it encouraging, but the most important figure derives from one simple question that was posed to former student-athletes: Would you recommend...
By Gary Brown Donna Lopiano, who was honored as the 10th recipient of the NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award at the Convention’s opening business session on Thursday, paused only briefly to bask in the spotlight before she continued the...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick The Division I Leadership Council approved a new women’s basketball recruiting model that will go to the Board of Directors for consideration Saturday. Women’s basketball recruiting concepts • Eliminate all...
By Michelle Hosick A series of recommendations aimed at providing additional support for the health and safety of student-athletes will be considered through the regular legislative process in Division I, the Legislative Council decided...
By Gary Brown NCAA President Mark Emmert kept his foot on the reform pedal Thursday by urging a standing-room-only crowd of delegates at the Convention’s opening business session to adopt a principled approach to balance what he called the...
By Gary Brown The Division III Management Council at its Jan. 16 meeting endorsed a conference grant “best business practices policy” and third-party review process designed to help conferences both account for – and be more accountable...
By Michelle Hosick The Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee elected Oregon track and field student-athlete Sarah Andrews and St. Peter’s baseball student-athlete Adam Purcilly as vice chairs for 2013. Either Andrews or Purcilly...
By Michelle Hosick The Division I Legislative Council continued to support a series of proposals from the Rules Working Group as they go before the Board of Directors for final adoption Saturday. The only proposal prompting considerable...
By David Pickle As Saturday’s Division II business session approaches, concerns could be emerging with an element of Proposal No. 2013-7. Notes LipmanHearn, a promotions and marketing firm, will interview a range of Division II...
By Gary Brown NCAA President Mark Emmert kept his foot on the reform pedal Thursday by urging a standing-room-only crowd of delegates at the Convention’s opening business session to adopt a principled approach to balance what he called the...
Shaquille O’Neal will be the featured speaker at 2013 NCAA Convention Keynote Luncheon on January 16 in Grapevine, Tex. O’Neal, a two-time, first-team All-American and college basketball player of the year at Louisiana State University,...
By Brian Hendrickson NCAA.org Outsiders may soon look at the RT300 rehab bicycle sitting in Iowa’s Winneshiek Medical Center therapy room and just see a bike. Even if they learn of its $27,564 price tag, they still may only see an...
By Gary Brown Among the most frequently stated reasons for the new enforcement structure the Division I Board of Directors adopted in October was the need to squelch the “risk/reward” analysis NCAA members believed some people were...
Two repeat winners, two previous winners and two institutions with multiple winners highlight the Elite 89 awards from the NCAA 2012 fall championships. Women’s volleyball featured winners in both Division II and III that had previously...
By Barney Forsythe President, Westminister College (Mo.) The worlds of academics and athletics have a mingled, controversial relationship. This clash is seen most prominently in NCAA Division I sports, particularly football and men’s...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org There are more than 450,000 NCAA student-athletes, and almost all of them will go pro in something other than sports. But probably only one of them will go pro in Ctenophores. That one student-athlete is Josh Swore...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org Ask people what they think of sabermetrics and you’re likely to get, “Yeah, that was really cool in Star Wars.” But ask Caltech student-athlete Susan Ballentine about it and she’ll say it’s what she wants to do for a...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org When SUNY New Paltz Athletics Director Stuart Robinson faced forks in the road during his career, he took them. It’s just that he took them in directions other people might not have figured. Twenty years ago when...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org When Portia Hoeg was a basketball star at Trinity (Texas), her forte was theft. These days as the athletics director at Allegheny, the woman who still ranks among Trinity’s all-time leaders in steals gives more than...
One of the key elements of NCAA President Mark Emmert’s reform agenda is the deregulation of the Division I rulebook. January 19, the Board of Directors approved a series of proposals designed to make the rules meaningful, enforceable and...
