1. Attendees included 291 student-athletes across the nation, chosen from 1,084 nominations
received from NCAA member institutions. Those student-athletes represented 22 sports in which the NCAA sponsors a championship, as well as all three divisions.

Understand and apply a leadership model,

Build a network with other student-athlete leaders,

Become confident leaders of change,

Commit to sharing the experience with their campus SAAC and other leaders.

3. Participating student-athletes learned a curriculum of leadership that included the works of scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner and their five practices of leadership, as well as a seven-step problem-solving process drawn from the work of scholar Edward Deming.

5. This year's conference included a student-athlete participant who was paralyzed from the neck down in an accident a year ago. Scott Shropshire, a junior diver from the University of California, Davis, was training at a pool in Walnut Creek, California, last year when he struck a swimmer under the board. Since the accident, Shropshire has regained some feeling in his legs and can move his arms slightly. While at the Leadership Conference, Shropshire maintained a strict regimen of physical therapy, hoping to enhance the movement he regains. "I'm very much still an athlete," he said. "It's just that I've switched sports. My sport now is the therapy I do every day."