MINUTES OF THE
NCAA DIVISION III ADMINISTRATIVE
COMMITTEE CONFERENCE NO.
7
Those participating were Susan Bassett, Division III Management Council chair; Suzanne Coffey, Division III Management Council vice-chair; Douglas Hastad, Division III Management Council; John McCardell, Division III Presidents Council chair; Dan Dutcher, NCAA; and Leah Nilsson, NCAA.
[NOTE: The
following actions occurred via teleconference on
[Note: These minutes contain only actions taken (formal votes or stated "sense of the meeting") in accordance with NCAA policy regarding minutes of all Association entities. While certain items on the committee?s agenda were acted on at various times throughout the meeting, all final actions within a given topic are combined in these minutes for convenience of reference.]
Acting for the
Division III Management Council and Presidents Council, the Administrative
Committee:
1. Approved proposed 2004 NCAA Convention
legislation sponsored by the NCAA Division III Presidents Council and not
yet reviewed in legislative form and the 2004 Convention Proposal Chart.
a. Reform Agenda.
(1) Division III ? Philosophy Statement ?
Off-Campus Recruiting. To
revise the Division III philosophy statement to specify that athletics recruitment
complies with established institutional policies and procedures applicable to
the admissions process.
(2) Division III Membership ?
Multidivision Classification ? Awarding of Athletics
Aid. To
eliminate the waiver that permits a Division III institution that sponsored a
sport classified in Division I during 1982-83 to award athletically
related financial aid in that sport, as well as a sport for the opposite gender
later reclassified to Division I.
(3) Eligibility ? Determining Season of
Eligibility ? Minimum Amount of Participation. To eliminate ?redshirting? by specifying that a student-athlete will be
charged with a season of competition if he or she practices or competes during
or after the first contest following the student-athlete's initial tryout.
(4) Financial Aid ?
Annual Electronic Reporting Process. To require an institution
to compare financial aid packaging for freshmen and transfer student-athletes
with the aid packages awarded to other freshmen and transfer students via an annual
electronic reporting process.
(5) Financial Aid ?
Athletics Fund Endowments. To
prohibit an institution from using its financial aid budget income from
endowment funds specifically designated for student-athletes and received by
the institution prior to
(6) Playing and Practice Seasons ?
Elimination of Safety Exceptions. To further limit
voluntary out-of-season workouts that occur outside the permissible playing and
practice seasons in the sports of fencing; gymnastics; rifle; rowing; skiing;
and swimming and diving.
(7) Playing and Practice Seasons ?
Length of Seasons and Contest Limits. To limit the length of
an institution's playing season segment to 18 weeks in fall sports, and 19
weeks in winter and spring sports; further, to decrease the combined current
traditional and nontraditional segment contest limits by 10 percent and
establish combined maximums for traditional and nontraditional segments, while
retaining the current caps on the maximum number of permissible contests or
dates of competition in each segment.
(8) Recruiting ?
Permission to Contact ? Self-Release. To grant
student-athletes the authority to issue, on their own behalf, written permission
that permits other institutions to contact the student-athlete about a
potential transfer, while directing the enforcement staff and the Committee on
Infractions to strengthen the enforcement of transfer contact regulations related
to inappropriate contact with student-athletes.
(9) Resolution ?
Division III Strategic Planning and Membership Growth. To commit, as part of
the division?s ongoing strategic-planning process, to address issues related to
membership growth. The review will
include the broad-based program and sport equity philosophies; appropriate
championships access; access to other programs and services; and the greater exercise
of institutional and conference autonomy, including related funding.
b. Additional Legislative Proposals.
(1) Playing and Practice Seasons ?
Coaching Activities Outside the Playing Season. To permit an institutional coaching staff
member to engage in coaching activities when a student-athlete participates in
an established national championship event or Olympic, Pan American, World Cup
and
(2) Playing Seasons ?
Golf ? Preseason Practice.
In golf, to provide institutions that conduct the traditional segment in
the fall with 16 practice opportunities before the first contest or September
1, whichever is later.
(3) Selection of Berths ? Pool
Composition. To
clarify the composition of Pool C.
2. Committee Appointments. The Administrative Committee reviewed the
recommendation from the NCAA committee coordinator regarding appointments for
the Division III Committee on Infractions.
It
was VOTED
?a. To let stand the appointment of Branwen Smith-King, assistant director of athletics, Tufts
University, to the Committee on Infractions; and
?b. To delay the appointment of Gerald
Young, associate director of athletics, Carleton College, until January 2005.?
3. The meeting adjourned at noon.
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