NCAA News Archive - 2002

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News Digest

Dec 9, 2002 12:10:03 PM

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Calendar

December 14-16	Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports	Indianapolis

December 16-17	Division I Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee	Indianapolis

December 19	Division I Regulatory Culture Working Group	Indianapolis

HONORS PROGRAM

Olympic swimmer de Varona to receive 2003 Teddy Award

Donna de Varona, an Olympic champion in swimming and a broadcasting pioneer among women, has been selected as winner of the 2003 Theodore Roosevelt Award, the NCAA's highest honor.

In 1960, at age 13, de Varona was the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team competing in Rome. Four years later at the Tokyo Olympics, she won two events and later was voted most outstanding female athlete by both major wire services.

As a broadcaster, she debuted on ABC's Wide World of Sports in 1965 and is generally credited as being the first woman on network television in the sports broadcasting field.

De Varona will be honored at the NCAA Honors Dinner at the NCAA Convention January 12 in Anaheim, California.

NCAA Silver Anniversary and Today's Top VIII Award winners also will be recognized at that time.

The Silver Anniversary winners are Debbie Brown (University of Southern California, volleyball); Dale Kramer (Carleton College, track and field, cross country); Kenneth MacAfee (University of Notre Dame, football); Ann Meyers Drysdale (University of California, Los Angeles, basketball, volleyball, track and field; Warren Moon (University of Washington, football); and Gifford Nielsen (Brigham Young University, football).

ESPN broadcaster Linda Cohn will serve as emcee for the event.

The Top VIII winners will be announced in the December 23 issue of The NCAA News.

STAFF CONTACT: Crystal Reimer [creimer@ncaa.org]

LEGISLATION

Official Notice mailed to Divisions II and III members

The 2003 NCAA Convention Official Notice has been mailed to the Divisions II and III memberships.

Division II delegates will consider 41 proposals during their January 13 business session -- 39 proposed amendments and two amendments-to-amendments. Division III will consider 16 proposals (15 proposed amendments and one amendment-to-amendment).

STAFF CONTACTS: Missy McCracken [mmccracken@ncaa.org] (Division II) and Mweni Ekpo [mekpo@ncaa.org] (Division III).

TITLE IX

Federal commission concludes series of town hall meetings

The series of town hall meetings conducted by the U.S. Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunity in Athletics concluded November 21 in San Diego.

The 15-member commission was announced in June by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Rod Paige.

The commission now turns its attention to producing a report for Paige. The report is due at the end of January. The commission will meet publicly December 3-4 in Philadelphia and January 8 in Washington, D.C., but those meetings will not include any public comment.