The NCAA News - News & Features

Honors Program nominations due soon

Nomination folders will be mailed September 25 to athletics directors, faculty athletics representatives and sports information directors at all member institutions.

The folders contain nomination forms for the 1997 Today's Top VIII and the Award of Valor. The awards will be presented during the honors dinner January 12, 1997, at the NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

Fall sports Today's Top VIII nominees must be varsity letter-winners who will complete their intercollegiate athletics eligibility this fall.

Today's Top VIII nominees from winter and spring sports and nominations for the Silver Anniversary Awards already have been received. Only nominees who participate in fall sports are eligible to be nominated at this time. There is no set male-female ratio; at least one winner will be selected from both Divisions II and III from among winter/spring and fall nominees.

Persons making nominations are reminded that if the nominee has not received television coverage, an effort should be made to have professional video (betacam or three-quarter-inch) taken of him or her in competition (or practice) and in a classroom/study setting. Videos do not need to be sent in with the completed nomination forms, but may become necessary for inclusion in NCAA Productions' video presentations to be shown both at the dinner and on a one-hour telecast that airs on ESPN.

The Honors Program at the annual Convention includes the Today's Top VIII, the Silver Anniversary Awards, the Theodore Roosevelt Award and the Award of Valor.

Nomination forms must be submitted to James A. Marchiony, director of broadcast services, NCAA, 6201 College Boulevard, Overland Park, Kansas 66211-2422.