By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org Junior Travis Misner, a baseball student-athlete at Division III Loras College, will spend his 21stbirthday on a day-long flight to Chinese Taipei. Misner and former basketball student-athlete Andrea Dalton of...
Grand Valley State President Thomas J. Haas was elected vice chair of the Division II Presidents Council during the Council’s January meeting. He replaces West Texas A&M President Pat O’Brien, who became Council chair at the conclusion...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org A new NCAA report on athletics finances by gender shows a commitment from NCAA schools to providing more resources to women’s teams. While men’s sports continue to generate more revenue and demand a greater share of...
By Brian Hendrickson A newly released NCAA report of student athletes’ drug and alcohol habits shows a continued decline in usage of some drugs and an overwhelming majority of athletes who have never used banned substances. The NCAA’s...
By David Pickle The Division II membership demonstrated its flexibility for new ways of doing business during its Convention business session Saturday – and it did so without a twist. The strong consensus over Division II legislation and...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org For one student-athlete, the soccer pitch at Missouri S&T was more than a vast field of grass where she played the sport she loved—it was a launching pad. Sandra Magnus, who patrolled the back line for the...
Division II’s leadership began its thorough review of academic standards Thursday during a joint meeting of the Management and Presidents Council. Over the next two years, the Academic Requirements Committee will lead a comprehensive...
By Marta Lawrence INDIANAPOLIS – An NCAA working group on Enforcement will recommend the adoption of an expanded, four-level violation structure for infractions when it meets with the Division I Board of Directors on Saturday. In its...
By Greg Johnson NCAA.org When someone decides to become a collegiate student-athlete, it’s inevitable that he or she will need to manage missed class time to maintain academic success. Learning to cope with this aspect of student-athlete...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org Wednesday’s NCAA Convention educational session “NCAA Inclusion Summit…What’s Next?” prompted thoughts on strategic initiatives resulting from the inaugural summit held in September. Bernard Franklin, NCAA...
By Brian Hendrickson After delivering sharp criticism of the NCAA in recent years, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Wednesday instead encouraged college leaders to continue down their current path during his NCAA Convention...
By David Pickle The Division II Championships Committee is throwing a number of questions on the table in an effort to assess the membership’s attitude toward in-region, nonconference competition. “As we see conferences growing, we see...
By Gary Brown With academics in all three divisions forming the backbone of the 2012 NCAA Convention, visitors to the fifth annual Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports are getting a primer on how policy has affected student-athletes in...
By David Pickle When Division II delegates adjourn their business session Saturday, they may have significantly new approaches on the books for recruiting and conference membership. The Division II legislative docket for the 2012...
The NCAA has invited 30 individuals who have an interest in coaching college football to its Future Coaches Academy, Jan. 8-10, in San Antonio, Texas. The Academy will be held in conjunction with the American Football Coaches Association (...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org The collegiate field hockey community is weighing whether a recommendation to require protective eyewear is good for the game. Citing increased rates of injuries to the face and head, the NCAA Committee on...
Dave Haglund, commissioner of the NAIA’s Cascade Collegiate Conference since 2007, has been appointed the new commissioner of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Haglund, currently in his 31st year in intercollegiate athletics,...
Sean Payton, the coach of the Super Bowl XLIV Champion New Orleans Saints, is an Eastern Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame inductee who still holds four single-season records, four career records and three individual game records there...
Dave Haglund, commissioner of the NAIA’s Cascade Collegiate Conference since 2007, has been appointed the new commissioner of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Haglund, currently in his 31st year in intercollegiate athletics,...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick Most student-athletes participating in intercollegiate athletics grow up in the U.S., though the number of international student-athletes is increasing dramatically – up more than 1,000 percent over the last 10...
