NCAA News Archive - 2001

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News Digest

Jun 4, 2001 10:18:46 AM

The NCAA News

Calendar

June 4-7	Men's and Women's Skiing Committee	Falmouth, Massachusetts

June 5-8	Division III Men's Ice Hockey Committee	Indianapolis

June 8	Division II Provisional Cap Focus Group	Dallas

June 8-9	Division II Amateurism Task Force	Salt Lake City

June 8-10	Division I Committee on Infractions	Tamaya, New Mexico

June 12-14	Division II Women's Lacrosse Committee	Avalon, New Jersey

June 14-17	Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports	Jackson Hole, Wyoming

June 15	Division I Committee on Athletics Certification	Indianapolis

June 16-18	Division I Committee on Financial Aid	Asheville, North Carolina

June 16-22	NCAA Fellows	Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

June 17-21	Women's Rowing Committee	Indianapolis

June 18-19	Degree-Completion Award Consultants	Indianapolis

SPORTS SCIENCES

Catastrophic-injury report shoes higher hockey, gymnastics rates

The most recent study on serious athletics injuries in high-school and college sports shows that football has the greatest number of catastrophic injuries but that the rates are higher in men's and women's ice hockey and gymnastics.

The research is funded by grants from the NCAA, the American Football Coaches Association and the National Association of State High School Associations. The report will be available through NCAA Online by clicking the "education/outreach" bar on the front page, then "sports sciences and medicine," then "athletics health care and coverage issues."

Staff contact: Randall W. Dick -- rdick@ncaa.org.

LITIGATION

Appeals court favors NCAA in initial-eligibility case

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled for the NCAA May 17 in a case that alleged that the minimum standardized test score component of the NCAA's Division I initial-eligibility standards for incoming colleges student-athletes disparately affected African-American student-athletes.