MINUTES OF THE
NCAA DIVISION III ADMINISTRATIVE
COMMITTEE CONFERENCE NO. 5
Those participating were Michael Miranda, Division III Management Council chair; Phillip Stone, Division III Presidents Council chair; Sandra Slabik, Division III Management Council. vice-chair; Dan Dutcher, NCAA; and Bridget Belgiovine, NCAA, recording secretary.
Absent from the conference call were Doug Hastad, Division III Management Council and Ivory Nelson, Division III Presidents Council vice-chair.
[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.]
The teleconference occurred
Acting for the Division III Management
Council and Presidents Council, the Administrative Committee:
1. Reviewed
and approved proposed 2006 NCAA Convention legislation sponsored by the NCAA
Division III Presidents Council and not yet reviewed in legislative form, consistent
with the September 1 deadline.
a.
Amateurism – Promotional Activities. To revise the restrictions related to
the use of a student-athlete’s name or image in institutional,
charitable, educational or nonprofit promotional activities, as specified. Amended the effective date to
b.
Eligibility – Graduate Student/Post
baccalaureate Participation – Exception. To permit a student-athlete who has
earned a baccalaureate degree at a four-year institution be immediately
eligible on transfer to the certifying institution, provided the
student-athlete has more than two semesters or three quarters of eligibility remaining
pursuant to the 10-semester/15-quarter rule at the time of transfer and meets
an exception to the transfer residence requirement.
c.
Eligibility – Transfer Residence
Requirement – Championship Eligibility. To specify that a student-athlete who
must complete an academic year of residence is not eligible to participate in
any NCAA championships during academic year of residence or during the vacation
period immediately following the academic year of residence.
d.
Ethical Conduct – Unethical Conduct
– Prescription Drugs.
To specify that unethical conduct shall include the knowing involvement
in providing a student-athlete a banned substance, impermissible supplement or
medications contrary to medical licensure, commonly accepted standards of care
in sports medicine practice, or state or federal law.
e.
Executive Regulations – Selection
of Teams and Individuals for Championship Participation – Maximum Size of
Championships Fields.
In team sports other than football, to establish a maximum bracket size
of 64; further, in football, to specify a maximum bracket size of 32.
f.
Division III Membership and Championships
Selection – Member Conference – Self-Study Guide and Limited
Realignment Period.
To require that conferences conduct a comprehensive self-study and
evaluation at least once every five years, using the Conference Self-Study
Guide; further, to specify that for a limited time period, a conference may be
eligible for automatic qualification without satisfying the continuity of
membership requirement, as specified.
g.
Division III Membership – Active
Membership – Sports Sponsorship Requirement – Six Sports for
Males/Mixed and Female Teams. To increase the required number of
sports an institution must sponsor to achieve or maintain active Division III
membership from five to six per gender for institutions with enrollment greater
than 1,000 students.
h.
Division III Membership –
Philosophy Statement – Integration of Administration – Academic
Performance – Admission Policies. To amend the Division III philosophy
statement to indicate that academic performance of student-athletes should be,
at a minimum, consistent with that of the general student body, that admissions
policies and procedures for student-athletes should be consistent with those
applicable to the general student body, and that the administration of the institution’s
athletics program should be integrated into the campus culture and educational
mission.
i.
Division III Membership – Sports Sponsorship
– Minimum Contest Requirements. To revise the minimum requirements for
sports sponsorship to 70 percent of the division-wide average number of
competed contests.
j.
Recruiting – Prohibited Expenses
– Donation of Used Athletics Equipment. To permit institutions to donate used
athletics equipment to all youth groups, including high schools, according to
the institutions’ regular policy regarding the discarding of equipment.
k.
Recruiting – Tryouts –
Exception. To
permit institutional coaches to teach private lessons to a prospect provided
specified criteria are satisfied.
2.
Approved an appointment to the Committee
on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports effective September
2005 – Scott Lynch, head team physician,
3. Approved
appointments to the following committees; effective
a. Playing
Rules Oversight Panel (two September vacancies). Joe Baker, director of athletics,
b. Men’s
and Women’s Fencing Committee (immediate vacancy replacing Albert Peters).
Sheryl Sousa, director of athletics,
c. Division
III Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee (two September vacancies). Men’s interests (Northeast region)
– Paul Gastonguay, head men’s and women’s tennis coach,
d.
Division III Men’s and
Women’s Track and Field Committee (immediate vacancy replacing Jennifer
Breuer).
Men’s interests (South/Southeast region): Seth McGuffin, head track and field
coach,
e.
Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey
Rules Committee (September 2005 vacancy). Phoebe Manchester, head women’s
ice hockey coach,
f.
Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee
(September 2005 vacancy).
Kathy Railey, head women’s lacrosse coach,
4.
The conference call adjourned at