Thirty women, selected from a group of nearly 430 nominees, have been chosen as the top 30 honorees for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. The top 30 women are composed of 10 honorees from each NCAA division and span various NCAA sports. In...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org The metal bleachers, five rows deep and running the length of the freshly-mowed pitch, were hidden underneath a small army of spectators. The field was immaculate – cut low – free of divots and muddy blemishes...
By Greg Johnson The Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee has decided to rescind the tiebreaker procedure it had recommended last week for singles and six-all set doubles competition. However, with support from the United States...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel during an Aug. 16 conference call approved several rules clarifications in Division III men’s volleyball, including not allowing the libero to serve. The Division III Men’s Volleyball...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org Octavia Blue had endured enough. She finally gave in when the Achilles tendon came unmoored and the knees perpetually swelled and the body pleaded for a respite from the barrage of sharp elbows and hard screens. “...
By Greg Johnson The Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee has recommended a new championships structure in which the number of days spent at the finals site decreases from 12 to eight. The recommendations also include creating a...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org When New Zealand native Anna Taylor was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer during her freshman year at Oregon State, the stand-out rower and her family were forced to make a heart-wrenching decision: bring her home,...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org Basketball rescued Larry House. Then basketball got in his way. The sport, played on hard streets and under soft light in high school gyms, provided a welcome escape throughout a trying youth. It brought him to a...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org For 29 years, Ben Shaffar’s ambitions were confined to the 60-feet, 6-inches between the edge of the pitching rubber and the tip of home plate. His greatest triumphs and most agonizing disappointments occurred in...
Women’s rowing is one of three Division I sports whose championship brackets will expand in 2013. In August, the NCAA Executive Committee approved a budget that included a recommendation from the Division I Championships/Sport Management...
By Gary Brown When the NCAA Executive Committee signed off on expansion for the Division I Women’s Rowing Championship earlier this month, it was cause for celebration not only for the rowing community but also for the committee that...
By Greg Johnson As NCAA teams prepare to start in-season competition this fall, fans will see several rules changes in football, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, field hockey, and men’s water polo. Each of those sport’s rules...
By Brian Hendrickson NCAA student-athletes faced off against their first opponents of the fall season in the last two weeks. They’ve lined up against intense August heat, following a game plan of proper hydration and rest periods to avoid...
NCAA student-athletes – there were at least 132 current or enrolled student-athletes that participated – performed very well during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. NCAA student-athletes combined to win 47 medals (22 gold, 11 silver and...
By Greg Johnson The Division I Baseball Committee is examining the possibility of seeding up to 16 teams for future championships. Currently, the committee seeds eight teams in the 64-team field. Committee members believe that expanding...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Division I is considering loosening some recruiting rules to allow coaches to communicate in writing with prospects as young as eighth grade – but only on the subject of the new academic standards for DI student-...
Anucha Browne Sanders has been selected as the NCAA’s vice president of women’s basketball championships. In this role, Browne Sanders will set the strategic direction for, and oversee the operation and management of, the Division I, II...
“The endowment will benefit external programs across the country that help prevent child sexual abuse or assist victims of abuse. We are currently finalizing the details on how the endowment will be administered. We will post details to...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch has been interested in sports as long as he can remember. He went to a laboratory high school on the campus of the University of South Carolina, which exposed him early to the...
University of Cincinnati head men’s basketball coach Mick Cronin has been publicly reprimanded for misconduct during the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Specifically, the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee said...
The NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL and the NHL) today filed a complaint against New Jersey state officials in federal court in Trenton, NJ seeking to stop the state from implementing sports betting on...
Manhattanville College failed to monitor its financial aid process, which led to student-athletes receiving more financial aid awards than the general student body, according to findings by the NCAA Division III Committee on Infractions...
Nearly 130 NCAA female student-athletes representing multiple sports across NCAA Divisions I, II and III have been selected as 2012 Woman of the Year honorees by their athletics conferences and by independent schools. Next, the Woman of...
NCAA student-athletes - there are at least 132 current or enrolled student-athletes participating in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London – had an impressive first week of competition. Through Sunday, NCAA student-athletes have combined to...
By Brian Hendrickson I kept thinking about how a young student-athlete could find this experience embarrassing and awkward as I stood in the restroom of Drake University’s tennis center last June, providing the first athletics-event drug...
