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| April 29-May 2 | Men's and Women's basketball Rules Committees | Tampa, Florida |
| April 30 | Division I Committee on Athletics Certification | Indianapolis |
| April 30-May 3 | Football Certification Subcommittee | Indianapolis |
| May 7-8 | Certified Events Subcommittee | Indianapolis |
| May 14 | Division III Financial Aid Audit Task Force | Chicago |
| May 15 | Postgraduate Scholarship Committee | Georgetown, Texas |
BCA
Annual BCA convention to honor outstanding achievements
The Black Coaches Association will hold its annual convention May 11 in Indianapolis. The convention features the BCA Awards Banquet, which recognizes coaches and athletics administrators who give unselfishly and exemplify the ideals of athletics.
This year's award recipients include Mike Davis, head men's basketball coach at Indiana University, Bloomington (male coach of the year); Marianna Freeman, head women's basketball coach at Syracuse University (female coach of the year); Dan Boggan, chief operating officer and senior vice-president at the NCAA (athletics administrator of the year); and Willie Jeffries, head football coach at South Carolina State University (lifetime achievement award).
The keynote speaker for this year's banquet is Lloyd D. Ward, chief executive officer and secretary general of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Ward is the first African-American to serve the USOC as its chief executive. Past keynote speakers have included Johnnie Cochran and Kweisi Mfume.
Staff contact: Arthur Hightower -- ahightower@ncaa.org
GENDER EQUITY
Scholarships and participation up, but women's salaries still lagging
Women's participation and scholarship dollars show slow but steady gains over two years ago, but salaries for the coaches of women's teams continue to lag behind those of men's teams, according to the recently released 1999-00 NCAA Gender-Equity Study.
The report shows that in Division I, women's athletics participation crept to 41 percent from 40 percent in the 1997-98 study. The study also showed incremental gains in scholarship dollars for women, from 41 percent to 43 percent of the scholarship funds in Division I overall.
Significant gaps remain between women's and men's coaches' salaries, however. According to the study, assistant coaches of Division I-A men's teams receive 74 percent of the dollars spent on assistant coaches and 62 percent of the funds spent on head coaches.
Staff contact: Rosie Stallman - rstallman@ncaa.org
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