MINUTES OF THE

NCAA DIVISION III ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE CONFERENCE NO. 6

Those participating were Thomas Courtice, chair, Division III Presidents Council; Bette Landman, vice-chair, Division III Presidents Council; Joy Reighn, chair, Division III Management Council; Christopher Walker, Division III Management Council; Dan Dutcher, NCAA; Chris Martin, NCAA and Aaron Robinson, NCAA (recording secretary). Oscar Page, Division III Management Council vice-chair, and Bridget Belgiovine, NCAA, were unable to participate.

[NOTE: The following actions occurred via teleconference on August 29, 2001.]

Acting for the Division III Management Council and Presidents Council, the Administrative Committee:

1. Approved the following proposed 2002 NCAA Convention legislation sponsored by the Presidents Council and not reviewed previously in legislative form:

a. Membership – Provisional Membership – To require provisional members to meet specified requirements as part of the provisional membership program and pay an increased educational fee to apply for provisional membership. [NOTE: Prior to the committee’s vote, it was noted that the specific fee amount of $12,000 had been removed from the legislation.].

b. Senior Woman Administrator – Appointment – To specify that an institution that has a female director of athletics may appoint a separate female as the senior woman administrator who reports to the director of athletics.

c. Athletics Personnel – Employment with Professional Sports Organizations – To eliminate the legislative prohibition regarding employment or income arrangements between institutional athletics department staff members and professional sports organizations.

d. Playing and Practice Seasons – Foreign Tours – In the sports of archery, badminton, bowling, fencing, gymnastics, rifle, women’s rowing, skiing, squash, synchronized swimming, team handball, men’s volleyball and water polo, to specify that foreign tours may not occur more than once every three years.

e. Amateurism – Professional Draft – To permit an individual prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment to enter a professional league’s draft and/or be drafted without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility.

f. Amateurism – Contractual Agreement – To permit an individual prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment to sign a contract or commitment of any kind to participate in professional athletics without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility.

g. Amateurism – Prize Money Based on Place Finish – To permit an individual prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment to accept prize money based on place finish from the sponsor of an open athletics event, the United States Olympic Committee or the appropriate national governing body.

h. Eligibility – Seasons of Competition – To specify that an individual who does not enroll full-time in a collegiate institution during the academic year following graduation of the individual’s high school class shall lose a season of competition during each calendar year or sport season in which the individual participates in outside competition; further, to require such an individual to fulfill an academic year in residency upon initial enrollment at a Division III institution.

i. Financial Aid – Audit Procedures – To establish financial aid audit procedures and reporting requirements as specified.

2. Approved the recommendations for appointments to the following Division III Sports and General committees:

a. Women’s Ice Hockey: James Wood, coach, Elmira College.

b. Men’s Lacrosse: James Zalacca, director of athletics, State University College at Potsdam.

c. Men’s and Women’s Riffle: Michael McKaughan, coach, United States Coast Guard Academy.

d. Men’s Soccer: Daniel Kuntz, coach, California Lutheran University; Ronald Shewcraft, coach, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

e. Women’s Soccer: Jack Flatau, coach, Southwestern University; Susan Viscomi, associate director of athletics, Hamilton College.

f. Men’s Water Polo: Brian Streeter, director of athletics, Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend College.

g. Wrestling: David Icenhower, athletics administrator/coach, College of New Jersey.

h. Baseball Rules: Christopher McKnight, athletics administrator/coach, Frostburg State University.

f. Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Rules: Allan MacCormack, coach, Lebanon Valley College; William Mandigo, coach, Middlebury College.

g. Financial Aid and Awards Committee: Michael McPherson, Macalester College; Phillip Creighton, Eastern Oregon University.

h. Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee: Venera J. Flores, University of Dallas.

The committee expressed concern regarding the lack of female representation on the various sports committees, as well as an apparent lack of knowledgeable nominees.

3. Limits on nontraditional contests/dates of competition in lacrosse – NCAA Bylaws 17.14.5.1 and 17.14.5.2.

It was VOTED

“To rescind the previous editorial changes to NCAA Bylaw 17.14.5, and retain lacrosse as a ‘date of competition sport’ for the fall of 2001.”

The committee noted the need for further Management Council discussion during its October meeting, including the possible ramifications of Proposal No. 2-59.

4. The meeting adjourned at 9:50 a.m.

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