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The Theodore Roosevelt Award is the Association’s highest honor and recognizes a former student-athlete who has achieved a national reputation and outstanding accomplishment. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue received the 2007 award.
Today’s Top VIII awards honor student-athletes who were seniors the preceding calendar year. Nominations for Top VIII candidates who participated in winter and spring sports are now being accepted. Silver Anniversary Awards recognize six former student-athletes on their 25th anniversary of college graduation.
Neither the Award of Valor nor the Inspiration Award is presented annually. The awards are bestowed on individuals who display heroic or inspirational actions.
More information about the awards — including a list of past recipients, specific nomination and selection criteria and online nomination forms — is available at the NCAA Web site, by following the “Awards” link under the “Media and Events” tab.
The Honors Celebration will be at the NCAA Convention in Nashville Sunday, January 13.
Staff contact: Sharon Tufano.
The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, will host the 2009 finals and the University of Florida will serve as host in 2010.
Additional information about the sites was reported June 5 in The NCAA News’ online edition, which also published a report that day on recent rules changes recommended by the Wrestling Committee and adopted by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel.
PROP approved a recommendation to require the recording of time advantage, or “riding time,” in all wrestling competition beginning next fall.
Both reports are accessible through the View All Association Updates link at www.ncaa.org.
The suggestions eventually could find their way to an Association-wide working group created by the NCAA Executive Committee to study ways of dealing with divisional growth and inter-division migration. The Executive Committee specifically instructed that group to study restructuring through the creation of a Division IV or by subdividing Division III, among other possible solutions.
The Division III Working Group on Membership Issues suggested models — one for a new division, the other for a subdivision — that would feature higher levels of institutional sport sponsorship than currently is the standard in Division III. The group also supported the related concept of emphasizing participation in intercollegiate athletics by higher percentages of students among institutions that would populate the new grouping.
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By Jack Copeland
The NCAA News
The NCAA News
Honors
Online nominations sought for Association’s awards
The NCAA is accepting online nominations for the awards presented at the 43rd annual Honors Celebration now through August 3. Nominations are accepted online only for the Theodore Roosevelt Award, Today’s Top VIII Awards, Silver Anniversary Awards, the Award of Valor and Inspiration Award.The Theodore Roosevelt Award is the Association’s highest honor and recognizes a former student-athlete who has achieved a national reputation and outstanding accomplishment. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue received the 2007 award.
Today’s Top VIII awards honor student-athletes who were seniors the preceding calendar year. Nominations for Top VIII candidates who participated in winter and spring sports are now being accepted. Silver Anniversary Awards recognize six former student-athletes on their 25th anniversary of college graduation.
Neither the Award of Valor nor the Inspiration Award is presented annually. The awards are bestowed on individuals who display heroic or inspirational actions.
More information about the awards — including a list of past recipients, specific nomination and selection criteria and online nomination forms — is available at the NCAA Web site, by following the “Awards” link under the “Media and Events” tab.
The Honors Celebration will be at the NCAA Convention in Nashville Sunday, January 13.
Staff contact: Sharon Tufano.
Sports committees
Women’s gymnastics sites, wrestling changes reported
The Women’s Gymnastics Committee recently announced the finals sites for the 2009 and 2010 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships and regional sites for 2008 and 2009.The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, will host the 2009 finals and the University of Florida will serve as host in 2010.
Additional information about the sites was reported June 5 in The NCAA News’ online edition, which also published a report that day on recent rules changes recommended by the Wrestling Committee and adopted by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel.
PROP approved a recommendation to require the recording of time advantage, or “riding time,” in all wrestling competition beginning next fall.
Both reports are accessible through the View All Association Updates link at www.ncaa.org.
Division III
Working group suggests models for restructuring
After reviewing extensive research about current and potential future membership, a Division III working group is suggesting a pair of possible models for a restructuring of the Association to accommodate growth.The suggestions eventually could find their way to an Association-wide working group created by the NCAA Executive Committee to study ways of dealing with divisional growth and inter-division migration. The Executive Committee specifically instructed that group to study restructuring through the creation of a Division IV or by subdividing Division III, among other possible solutions.
The Division III Working Group on Membership Issues suggested models — one for a new division, the other for a subdivision — that would feature higher levels of institutional sport sponsorship than currently is the standard in Division III. The group also supported the related concept of emphasizing participation in intercollegiate athletics by higher percentages of students among institutions that would populate the new grouping.
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