The NCAA is soliciting nominations by May 22 for Division III vacancies on sports committees. All of the committees are seeking nominees to fill September 2009 vacancies, except the Division III Women’s Basketball Committee, which has an immediate vacancy.

Nominations must be submitted online here (the Division III access code is committee3; the Division III password is 2006).

For more information, contact Sharon Tufano, NCAA committee coordinator. Information about committee administration also is available here.

Division III Baseball Committee: One September 2009 vacancy. Appointee must be from the South region and may be a coach or administrator. Eligible conferences – Capital Athletic Conference, Great South Conference, Landmark Conference, Old Dominion Athletic Conference, Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, University Athletic Association. Eligible independent institutions – Rust College. Committee information here.

Division III Women’s Basketball Committee: One immediate vacancy. The appointee will replace Roger Ingles of Ohio Wesleyan, who resigned from the committee. The appointee must be from the Great Lakes region and may be a coach or administrator. Eligible conferences – Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, North Coast Athletic Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference, Presidents’ Athletic Conference, Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, University Athletic Association. Committee information here.

Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee: One September 2009 vacancy. Appointee may be a coach or administrator from any region. Eligible institutions – Babson College, Clarkson University, Colby-Sawyer College, Green Mountain College, Gustavus Adolphus College, University of Maine Presque Isle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northland College. Plymouth State University, College of St. Benedict, St. John’s University (Minnesota), St. Lawrence University, St. Olaf College, The College of St. Scholastica, Smith College, Whitman College. Committee information here.

Division III Men’s Soccer Committee: Two September 2009 vacancies. One appointee must be from the Mid-Atlantic region and one must be from the North region. One appointee must be an administrator. Eligible Mid-Atlantic region conferences – Centennial Conference, Colonial States Athletic Conference, Commonwealth Conference, Freedom Conference, Landmark Conference, North Eastern Athletic Conference. Eligible North region conferences – Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Midwest Conference. Eligible North region independent institutions – Bethany Lutheran College; Crown College (Minnesota); Finlandia University, Martin Luther College, University of Minnesota, Morris; Nebraska Wesleyan University; North Central University; Northland College; Northwestern College; College of St. Scholastica, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; University of Wisconsin, Platteville; University of Wisconsin, Superior; University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Committee information here.

Division III Softball Committee: One September 2009 vacancy. The appointee must be from the West region and may be a coach or administrator. Eligible conferences -- American Southwest Conference, Northwest Conference, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Eligible independent institutions – University of Dallas, Menlo College. Committee information here

Division III Men’s Tennis Committee: One September 2009 vacancy. The appointee must be an administrator from the Northeast region. Eligible conferences – City University of New York Athletic Conference, Commonwealth Coast Conference, Empire 8, Freedom Conference, Great Northeast Athletic Conference, Landmark Conference, Little East Conference, New England Collegiate Conference, New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference, New Jersey Athletic Conference, North Atlantic Conference, North Eastern Athletic Conference, Skyline Conference. Eligible independent institutions – The College of New Jersey; State University College at Oneonta; State University of New York at Oswego; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark; St. Joseph’s College (New York). Committee information here.