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...
By Gary Brown The Division III Presidents Council at its meeting on Tuesday defeated a proposal to conduct the Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship game in conjunction with the Men’s Frozen Four in 2014. The proposal to use the...
By Greg Johnson The St. Cloud State women’s hockey team left for a routine weekend series at Providence last Friday. Four days later, the experience is anything but routine. Sandy, the super storm that is wreaking havoc on the eastern...
As the working group reviewed the current enforcement structure and contemplated desired outcomes from a revised approach, what common themes emerged about what needed to change? First, it was clear we needed to have stiffer and more...
By Gary Brown The Division I Board of Directors today adopted an overhauled enforcement structure that creates additional levels of infractions, hastens the investigation process and ratchets up penalties for the most egregious violations...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick The Division I Board of Directors will not consider legislation in the 2013-14 legislative cycle that is not a part of the presidential reform initiatives or considered essential to the operation of Division I,...
By Kat Krtnick NCAA.org The partnership between Division III and NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) has taken an important step forward with the development of an online resource to help reduce the consequences of...
“The NCAA is actively working with member institutions in the wide path of Hurricane Sandy to ensure that the needs of student-athletes are met before, during and after the storm. Our top priority is the safety of our student-athletes and...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org The name “Schellenberg” is all over the statistical sheet this fall for the Belmont Abbey women’s volleyball team. Sisters Kay, Lydia and Hannah Schellenberg are making the most of their one season together in the...
Jeff Blatnick, a former two-time NCAA wrestling champion at Division II Springfield College who overcame cancer to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics, died of heart failure Wednesday in Schenectady, N.Y...
By Josh Looney NCAA President Mark Emmert and West Texas A&M President Pat O’Brien recently shared their strong affinities for the active role faculty athletics representatives play on NCAA campuses. Emmert, who spent more than 30...
By Gary Brown Data from the third year of Division III’s voluntary academic reporting program released Thursday once again demonstrate that student-athletes in general graduate at higher rates than their student-body peers. Of the 128...
By David Pickle A drop in graduation rates for two- and four-year transfers led to a small decline for the entering class of 2005 in the latest Division II Academic Success Rate. The overall Division II ASR for the 2005 cohort was 72...
By Erik Christianson Division I men’s basketball and Bowl Subdivision football student-athletes are finishing their college degrees at their highest rates ever. And for the first time, the graduation rates in both high-profile sports have...
By Greg Johnson New NCAA football kickoff-return rules produced more touchbacks in games played through Oct. 6 than all of the touchbacks that occurred during the entire 2011 season in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Through the first six...
Champion Digital | By Brian Hendrickson Ashley Priess saw the easy path. But it’s the difficult choice that turned the Alabama gymnast into a leader. She stood on the sidelines of the 2011 NCAA championships, both ankles healing from major...
By David Pickle An important Division II issue regarding international membership got extra emphasis this week when Presidents Council chair Pat O’Brien made himself available to the Management Council to answer questions about the...
By Gary Brown The possibility of Division III conducting its men’s ice hockey championship game during the weekend of the Division I Frozen Four – at least on a one-year trial basis – came a step closer to reality when the Division III...
By Gary Brown The Division III Management Council during its meeting Monday and Tuesday supported the concept of a one-time allocation to help Division III schools defray the costs of sickle cell trait testing if a proposal to require such...
By David Pickle New Division II academic requirements are a long way from approval and even further from implementation, but a membership examination of the issue appears to be headed more in the direction of nuanced, rather than radical,...
