By Greg Johnson NCAA.org Any collegiate coach will tell you it isn’t always about the Xs and Os. It’s more about the Rexes and the Joes. That’s right – recruiting prospective student-athletes is the life blood of any college athletics...
By Greg Johnson The Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Friday approved rules changes in men’s lacrosse, including the establishment of a shot clock procedure that replaces the sport’s stall warning. The panel also approved changes in...
By Brian Hendrickson Recent information collected by the NCAA’s Injury Surveillance Program indicates that the rate of football related concussions has remained steady over an eight-year period, even as efforts have been made to recognize...
Division II and CBS Sports Network have announced the 2013 regular-season television schedule for basketball. The program, now in its seventh year, will feature a total of nine men’s and women’s games from seven Division II conferences...
A public reprimand and certain penalties have been issued for the Syracuse University head women’s lacrosse coach Gary Gait and student-athlete Michelle Tumolo for misconduct during the 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship...
By Gary Brown A 14-member representative panel co-chaired by Worcester State University Associate Athletics Director and head women’s basketball coach Karen Tessmer and Becker College Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer David...
The number of NCAA student-athletes participating in intercollegiate athletics surpassed 450,000 in 2011-12, an all-time high. Participation levels for both male and female student-athletes were the highest in NCAA history, with total at...
By Dave Worlock Peter Roby, the director of athletics at Northeastern, has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. Roby replaces Bernard Muir, the former director of athletics at Delaware who accepted a similar...
An NCAA-created national task force will oversee an endowment funded by the $60 million fine imposed on Penn State. All funds from the fine will follow the endowment guidelines established by the Child Sexual Abuse Endowment Task Force and flow to programs designed to prevent child sexual abuse or assist the victims of child sexual abuse nationwide.
By David Pickle When Division II considers future policy or legislation changes, football and women’s volleyball coaches will discover they have key advocates who can understand and articulate their points of view. Those sports are...
By Greg Johnson In late June, Dan Gavitt was on an airplane headed to Park City, Utah, to be introduced to the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee as the NCAA’s new vice president for men’s basketball championships. During the flight, he...
Nine student-athletes have been selected as finalists for the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year award that will be announced on Oct. 14 during a ceremony in Indianapolis. Finalists were selected based on academic achievement, athletics...
By Gary Brown The Division III Championships Committee is considering conducting the Division III men’s ice hockey championship game on the same weekend as the Men’s Frozen Four in 2014. However, committee members want to see a date...
By Greg Johnson The Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet approved a new selection process for swimmers that would focus more on individual events starting with the 2013 Division I Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving...
By Ty Halpin A ruling that had banned the use of the “motorcycle” grip on faceoffs in men’s lacrosse has been reversed. After reviewing membership feedback, the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Rules Committee retracted a decision made at its August...
By Courtney Cronin Two institutions held true to Division II’s “Life in the Balance” sentiment during a rivalry weekend in which the focus shifted from football to unifying in support of a cause that grants the wishes of children with life...
Champion Digital | By Gary Brown Someday, University of Washington golfer Cheng-Tsung Pan is going pro in … well, sports. But not right now. He’s too busy getting schooled in the collegiate model. “It takes a lot of effort to combine being...
By Howard Tsumura For NCAA.org BURNABY, B.C. − In a manner of speaking, you could say that Milton Richards is a lot like an 1800s explorer and fur trader, someone with the requisite pioneer spirit to lead his company upstream and into a...
The Hershey Company will continue to support NCAA student-athletes through an extended Corporate Partner agreement with CBS Sports and Turner Sports. As the Official Candy Partner of the NCAA, Hershey’s will continue to have access to...
Champion Digital | Video and story by Courtney Cronin John Bullis wanted to know what was going on. As he sat in his Wisconsin-River Falls classroom in February 2009, his phone was vibrating non-stop in his pocket. John scrolled through...
For the last three years plainitffs' counsel have misled the press, the public and the court, basing their lawsuit on the notion that the NCAA has somehow prevented former student-athletes from participating in licensing opportunities...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org View the construction photo gallery and video montage. The United States expanded by going west. Grand Valley State expanded by going south. It was more practical and less expensive than going north. On Saturday,...
By Gary Brown Moravian President Christopher Thomforde likens his life to a series of interstate highways that start randomly but converge briefly before dividing again. Such a map might explain how a tall kid from an immigrant family ends...
