By Michelle Brutlag Hosick The process and timing for both penalizing and determining postseason eligibility of teams who fail to meet academic benchmarks will remain the same, the Committee on Academic Performance decided, using the most...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Committee at its annual meeting recommended modifying the way team scores will be compiled in the sport. The proposal calls for each team having five competitors perform routines in each event,...
The NCAA moved within a single step of accepting its first international member when the Division II Membership Committee conditionally approved Simon Fraser University of Burnaby, B.C., as a Division II active member. The action was among...
A total of 429 female student-athletes, spanning NCAA Divisions I, II and III, were nominated for the 22nd annual NCAA Woman of the Year award. The award honors graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves...
Statement by Bob Williams, vice president of communications “Like everyone else, we are reviewing the final report for the first time today. As President Emmert wrote in his November 17 th letter to Penn State President Rodney Erickson and...
The NCAA has partnered with the child sexual abuse prevention organization Stop It Now! to provide its members with resources to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse and to foster an environment in which that abuse is reported. Since...
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) lacked institutional control when it allowed 30 ineligible student-athletes in 12 sports to practice or compete during four academic years, according to findings by the NCAA Division III...
A public reprimand and certain penalties have been issued for University of New Mexico men’s soccer student-athletes Victor Rodriguez and James Rogers for misconduct during the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship. The NCAA...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org They’re accustomed to competing, not working in harmony. Hundreds of times, on fields and courts at Kansas’ three Division I schools – Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State – helmets and bodies have crashed...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick When Jean Boyd saw the higher academic expectations for student-athletes who want to play Division I sports adopted last fall by the Division I Board of Directors, his first thought was of the kids who would be...
Due to ties with an agent, nonscholastic teams affiliated with three team administrators may not participate in NCAA-certified summer basketball events following a decision today by the NCAA. However, the individual prospective student-...
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee has selected Ron Wellman, director of athletics at Wake Forest University, as chair of the committee for the 2013-14 season. The committee’s decision was made Friday, June 29, during its...
By Brian Hendrickson The NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee asked the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports at its June meeting for its support and collaboration as the rules committee examines the possibility of...
Pepperdine University failed to monitor its athletics program, according to findings by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. This case involved violations in five sports, including incorrect eligibility certifications of transfer...
The NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee has upheld a Boise State University football spring practice penalty and sent the reduction in football scholarships penalty back to the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions for...
Dan Gavitt has been selected as the NCAA’s vice president of men’s basketball championships. In this new role, Gavitt will set the strategic direction for and oversee the operation and management of the Division I, II and III men’s...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick As the reform effort in Division I gains momentum, presidents are saying that continued leadership from the top – which is where the movement began in the first place – is necessary to nurture the cultural shift...
The NCAA actively participated in an inter-association task force on “Preventing Sudden Death in Collegiate Conditioning Sessions” and supports the continued multi-organizational efforts put forth to help protect student-athlete well-being...
The statement of NCAA President Mark Emmert on the decision of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee to adopt a four-team playoff in football: "I commend the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee on its leadership to move to a playoff...
The NCAA has invited 12 football coaches and eight directors of athletics from Division I intercollegiate programs to its 2012 Champion Forum, the top tier of the NCAA’s coaching academy programs. The Champion Forum will be held June 26-28...
By Greg Johnson Bert Boquet’s love of baseball was undeniable. That was true from the age of 10 when he met legendary slugger Babe Ruth until this year’s Men’s College World Series in Omaha, where arrangements had been made for him to...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee approved a rules change in pole vault competitions that would require all rigid or unyielding items above ground level, or designated landing pit platform surfaces...
Division II and CBS Sports Network have announced their 2012 regular-season football television schedule. Division II Vice President Mike Racy said the program, now in its seventh year, has been good for the participating institutions and...
By Greg Johnson After a lifetime of being one of the greatest ambassadors for college softball, including the last 33 years as the game’s all-time winningest coach at the Division I level, Margie Wright has hung up the spikes. But the win...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick NCAA.org In the last four years, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference schools have steadily increased their Academic Progress Rates, a notable feat for a conference composed largely of limited-resource schools. Though...
