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...
Champion Digital | Videos by Courtney Cronin | Story by Kayci Woodley “It’s just as passionate and tension-ridden as any game you’re ever going to play in. It’s like playing in the Super Bowl. If you lose you’re labeled a loser and if you...
By Jennifer Gunnels For NCAA.org Marge Redmond believes field hockey is in her genes. Currently in her 13th season as the head coach at Ohio Wesleyan University, Redmond’s love of the game has undoubtedly been passed on to the next...
By Kayci Woodley NCAA.org Division III student-athlete Michael Buric is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. Organizing, managing and taking risks are part of his daily life, and have been since high school. Buric’s professionalism...
By Gary Brown Last January, many Division III delegates said they were unprepared to vote on a proposal to require sickle cell trait status confirmation status, which caused its referral from the Convention floor for further review without...
By Brian Hendrickson NCAA.org Victoria Donegan thought Staten Island slipped away from Hurricane Sandy’s devastating punch as the worst of the storm blew through on Oct. 29. The goalkeeper on the College of Staten Island soccer team rode...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org When it comes to politics and college sports, one of the most recognizable names is Tom Osborne, who coached the Nebraska Cornhuskers to 255 wins and two national championships in football and then became the...
By Marta Lawrence NCAA.org This year’s presidential election is an experience dozens of NCAA student-athletes will never forget. With all three of the debates being held at college campuses, student-athletes were among the attendees...
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...
