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The NCAA News -- September 28, 1998

Association wide -- Fall sports Top VIII, Award of Valor nominations due November 1

Nominations for fall sports candidates for the 1999 Honors Program must be received at the NCAA national office by November 1.

Nomination folders will be mailed no later than October 1 to athletics directors, faculty athletics representatives and sports information directors at all member institutions.

The folders contain nomination forms for the 1999 Today's Top VIII and the Award of Valor. The awards will be presented at the honors dinner January 10, 1999, during the NCAA Convention in San Antonio.

Fall sports Today's Top VIII award 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 from among all nominees will be selected from both Divisions II and III.

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 with the completed nomination forms, but they 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 Laurie Bollig at the national office.