The Division II Administrative Committee on Friday decided the division’s quiet recruiting period will end Aug. 31. Division II sports will resume their normal recruiting calendars Sept. 1. The Administrative Committee, which met virtually...
The Division I Council recommended the Division I Board of Directors adopt some minimum protections for student-athletes whose sport seasons are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will finalize recommendations before Aug. 21. The...
From a program-record pool of 605 school nominees, 161 college athletes have been named conference-level nominees for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Athletics departments and conference offices now have a primary point of contact to receive and distribute information around diversity and inclusion topics.
The Division II Presidents Council on Wednesday voted to advance several legislative proposals to the 2021 NCAA Convention, including concepts that would permit student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates has been appointed to serve as one of five independent members on the NCAA Board of Governors.
Division II’s seven fall 2020 championships are canceled, the Division II Presidents Council decided Wednesday due to the operational, logistical and financial challenges presented by COVID-19.
The Division I Board of Directors on Wednesday reviewed name, image and likeness concepts sent to the division’s members for feedback and provided insight as the governing body that oversees the strategic direction of Division I.
NCAA Division III championships in fall sports for 2020-21 are canceled. With the health and safety of the division’s student-athletes as its priority, the Division III Presidents Council made the decision Wednesday to cancel the championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related administrative and financial challenges.
The NCAA Board of Governors has directed schools and conferences to meet specific requirements if they are to conduct NCAA fall sports during the preseason, regular season and postseason. Further, each division is directed to determine its...
Jeff Schulman, the director of athletics at the University of Vermont, has been appointed to the Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee, effective Sept. 1.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules to allow student-athletes in all sports to wear patches on their uniforms for commemorative and memorial purposes, as well as to support social justice issues.
The former walk-on at Bowling Green didn’t log a whole lot of minutes and scored only 9 points throughout his four-year career. However, he had a strong reputation for being the team’s hype man.
The Division I Council Coordination Committee granted a blanket waiver that reduces by 50% the current legislated minimum number of contests that teams in fall sports other than football must play.
Mike Kemp, the senior associate athletics director of events/facilities at Omaha, has been named chair of the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee for the 2020-21 season.
“Today the Board of Governors and I agreed that we must continue to thoughtfully and aggressively monitor health conditions around the country and the implementation of the COVID-19 guidelines we issued last week. The health and well-being...
The Division I Council Coordination Committee extended to one week before the final examination period of a school’s fall term a waiver allowing student-athletes to participate in up to eight hours of virtual nonphysical countable athletically related activities per week.
The Division I National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is seeking feedback from Division I’s Legislative Committee and Student-Athlete Experience Committee on a legislative proposal to specify that countable athletically related activities be prohibited on Election Days.
The Division II Management Council recommended the Division II Presidents Council sponsor several legislative proposals for the 2021 NCAA Convention, most of which permit student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness.
Division II student-athletes will not be charged with use of a season for the 2020-21 academic year if their team can complete only 50% or less of the sport’s maximum contests/dates of competition because their season is canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
