DIVISION I

First report from new formula shows 76 percent graduate

First-year data from the NCAA's new Graduation/Success Rate (GSR) show that about three-fourths of Division I student-athletes are getting their diplomas.

The first release of GSR data includes team scores only, and not an aggregate score for each institution. Team scores are available at www.ncaa.org. The Division I Board of Directors deliberately chose that approach to focus initially on teams as the unit of analysis. Institution GSRs will be released in January, along with the federal graduation rates.

Overall GSR results indicate that after accounting for transfers into Division I institutions and accommodating institutions with students who leave while academically eligible, about three-fourths of all Division I student-athletes are known to have received a bachelor's degree. The actual success rate is 76 percent in all of Division I and within Division I-A, 73 percent in Division I-AA and 79 percent in Division I-AAA.

The top sports in the Division I GSR are women's lacrosse (94 percent), and women's gymnastics, field hockey and women's fencing (93 percent).

BASKETBALL

Struckhoff selected to oversee officiating for women's game

The NCAA has named Mary Struckhoff as national coordinator of women's basketball officiating. She will begin her new role in January.

Struckhoff, an assistant director with the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) since 1999, replaces Marcy Weston, who is retiring from the coordinator position after having served in that role since 1984.

The basketball officiating program helps promote better communication among officials, conference coordinators of officials, coaches and the NCAA, and helps provide consistency in the interpretations of NCAA women's basketball rules and officiating mechanics. Struckhoff also will help the Division I Women's Basketball Committee identify, select and evaluate officials for the Division I championship.

PLAYING RULES

Baseball rules panel issues reminder on regulation games

The Baseball Rules Committee recently reminded conferences, coaches and administrators of rules regarding regulation games.

In an October 11 memorandum, the committee added several new examples to the rules book detailing travel exception policies, doubleheader games and acceptable reasons to halt or end a contest. Last season, the committee discovered several cases in which early season tournaments were scheduling shortened games or games that did not meet the qualifications for a doubleheader.

The full memorandum is available at NCAA Online at www2.ncaa.org/sports/
spring/baseball/mens/index.html.

For more information, contact Ty Halpin, NCAA associate director of playing rules administration (thalpin@ncaa.org).

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