During its meeting in Indianapolis, the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports supported a plan to reinstate the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program data request process.
The program provides injury surveillance data to researchers.
"Sport-injury researchers will be able to apply for data from the Injury Surveillance Program," said Pam Hinton Bruzina, chair of the CSMAS Research Subcommittee and faculty athletics representative at Missouri, where she is a professor of nutrition and exercise physiology. "CSMAS continues to support opportunities for research to advance the scientific understanding of data from the program."
The data sharing has been paused since 2018 while the committee considered policy and procedural changes. The process may be reinstated by as early as this winter.
Performance technology
The committee affirmed wearable performance technology as a priority topic for the Association.
Its Training and Performance Advisory Group met in May and recommended additional work on performance technologies, including their intersection with nutrition, sleep and recovery.
The committee agreed that the advisory group should focus its future discussion on wearable performance technologies, with the potential goal of providing enhanced guidance to the membership.
Division I core guarantees: Guidance on mental and physical health, safety and performance requirements
CSMAS supported the creation of a question-and-answer document that provides guidance to schools as they implement mental and physical health, safety and performance core guarantees from the holistic student-athlete model adopted last year and effective Aug. 1.
The mental and physical health, safety and performance core guarantees include, among other items, a requirement that Division I schools attest to being in compliance with consensus-based guidance (Mental Health Best Practices) developed by CSMAS and approved by the NCAA Board of Governors.
The guidance will be reviewed with the membership this summer and made available before the August effective date.
Leadership
Deena Casiero, director of sports medicine and head team physician at UConn, was named the NCAA's chief medical officer, starting Aug. 12. Casiero has been a member of CSMAS since 2021 and was named vice chair of the committee in 2023.
Nadine Mastroleo, faculty athletics representative and professor of psychology at Binghamton University, will replace Casiero as vice chair and become chair Sept. 1. Sarah Dowd, the director of student-athlete wellness and clinical counselor at Michigan Tech, was elected as the vice chair in waiting.
