Registration for the 2009 NCAA National Student-Athlete Development Conference is now open. Administrators may nominate student-athletes by clicking here. Applications are due by February 6 at 8 p.m. ET. A user ID and password are required for the registration system.

Institutions registering student-athletes for the first time must contact Curtis Hollomon at chollomon@ncaa.org to request a user ID and password. 

The national conference will be May 24-27 at Walt Disney World’s Coronado Spring Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The conference is open to all NCAA member institutions and is provided at no cost to student-athletes. The four-day conference for 700 selected participants includes daily team sessions, exercises, speakers and activities to help the student-athletes develop as individuals.     

Each division will have the opportunity to send 233 student-athletes to the national conference. The slots will be filled in the order that they are received in the online system. If any division does not fill its allotted slots by the February 6 deadline, any institution in any division may fill those slots.

The nomination requirements are:

•         Institutions must nominate four student-athletes (only one nominee per NCAA-sponsored sports team per gender; for example, one each from men’s and women’s tennis but not two from men’s tennis). The institution’s nominees must include two women and two men.

•         At least one male and one female nominee must be an ethnic minority or international student-athlete.

•         All-male or all-female colleges must submit two nominees, with one nominee being an ethnic minority or international student-athlete.

•         None of the institution’s current nominees can be a previous participant at the NCAA National Student-Athlete Development Conference.

•         Participants in the Division I Leadership Conference, Division II Leadership Academy or Division III Student-Athlete Leadership Conference during the 2008-09 academic year are not eligible for the National Student-Athlete Development Conference.

•         Institutions may re-nominate student-athletes who were nominated but not selected in previous years.