Last year was the 75th anniversary of the Division I NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The lists were plentiful regarding the Final Four's greatest hits. Since 1939, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship has grown into one of...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org A pair of Division III student-athletes can see the top of hill, yet they refuse to be thrust over. Florina Petcu, a 37-year old former actress and Muay Thai boxing champion, recently competed as a member of...
By Gary K. Johnson Almost 49 million fans attended college football games at all 644 NCAA football-playing schools during the 2012-13 season, and one conference that topped 7 million fans for the first time ever. The attendance of 48,958,...
Division III delegates were 13-for-13 at the Jan. 19 business session, approving all of the legislative proposals to wrap up four days of governance meetings at the 2013 NCAA Convention in Grapevine, Texas. Only two of the votes were close...
Champion Digital | By Brian Burnsed Dalton Herendeen once hid in the water. As a child, he dreaded family trips to the beach. He loathed the gawking and the stares that always seemed to accompany the summer sun and the ocean breeze. So he...
By Gary Brown Story Highlights Division III members considered 13 legislative proposals at the Convention business session on Saturday. Among those approved was one that expands the realm of contact to prospects to include private...
By David Pickle The 2014 NCAA Convention will be one to remember for Division II – and not just because it will be in sunny San Diego. Not in recent memory have so many issues appeared to be converging on a single Division II event...
By Gary Brown Story highlights Division III adopted a proposal at the Convention business session on Saturday requiring confirmation of sickle cell trait status for all student-athletes no later than the 2014-15 academic year. The vote to...
By Gary Brown To prepare for Saturday’s business session that includes membership voting on a proposal to require schools to confirm their student-athletes’ sickle cell trait status no later than 2014-15 (Proposal No. 4 in the Official...
By Gary Brown Donna Lopiano, who was honored as the 10th recipient of the NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award at the Convention’s opening business session on Thursday, paused only briefly to bask in the spotlight before she continued the...
By Gary Brown NCAA President Mark Emmert kept his foot on the reform pedal Thursday by urging a standing-room-only crowd of delegates at the Convention’s opening business session to adopt a principled approach to balance what he called the...
By Gary Brown The Division III Management Council at its Jan. 16 meeting endorsed a conference grant “best business practices policy” and third-party review process designed to help conferences both account for – and be more accountable...
By Brian Hendrickson NCAA.org Outsiders may soon look at the RT300 rehab bicycle sitting in Iowa’s Winneshiek Medical Center therapy room and just see a bike. Even if they learn of its $27,564 price tag, they still may only see an...
Two repeat winners, two previous winners and two institutions with multiple winners highlight the Elite 89 awards from the NCAA 2012 fall championships. Women’s volleyball featured winners in both Division II and III that had previously...
By Barney Forsythe President, Westminister College (Mo.) The worlds of academics and athletics have a mingled, controversial relationship. This clash is seen most prominently in NCAA Division I sports, particularly football and men’s...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org There are more than 450,000 NCAA student-athletes, and almost all of them will go pro in something other than sports. But probably only one of them will go pro in Ctenophores. That one student-athlete is Josh Swore...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org Ask people what they think of sabermetrics and you’re likely to get, “Yeah, that was really cool in Star Wars.” But ask Caltech student-athlete Susan Ballentine about it and she’ll say it’s what she wants to do for a...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org When SUNY New Paltz Athletics Director Stuart Robinson faced forks in the road during his career, he took them. It’s just that he took them in directions other people might not have figured. Twenty years ago when...
By Gary Brown NCAA.org When Portia Hoeg was a basketball star at Trinity (Texas), her forte was theft. These days as the athletics director at Allegheny, the woman who still ranks among Trinity’s all-time leaders in steals gives more than...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org As a race approaches, Dalton Herendeen seems like any other college swimmer. He meticulously stretches his long limbs and 6-foot-4 frame. The focus, so readily apparent in his eyes, is obscured when he snaps on...
By Jack Copeland The story of a nontraditional student who joined a varsity tennis squad in her late 20s, then gently offered pointers to a younger, inexperienced and overmatched opponent, was selected as the top honoree in a quarterly...
By Jack Copeland A new mobile website developed by Division III enables coaches to easily access and use identity-initiative resources during visits with prospective student-athletes and their parents. The resource, which includes links to...
