SUPPLEMENT NO

REPORT OF THE

NCAA COMMITTEE ON COMPETITIVE SAFEGUARDS AND

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SPORT

1. ACTION ITEMS.

a. 2002-03 Budget Requests. Endorse the two health and safety initiatives, listed in priority order, for 2002-03 Association-wide funding. Attachment A outlines the two requests in a chart.

(1) Injury Surveillance System Enhancement.

(a) Recommendation. Allocate the second year of previously requested Association resources to complete necessary upgrades to the NCAA Injury Surveillance System (ISS).

(b) Rationale. The committee prepared a two-year budget request for ISS enhancement that was reviewed and supported by the Division III Management Council at its April 2001 meeting. That request, $250,000 for the 2001-02 fiscal year and $150,000 for the 2002-03 fiscal year, ultimately was supported by all three Management Councils. Subsequently, the Executive Committee approved $200,000 for this project in 2001-02, and the initial system enhancement has begun. The current recommendation is to allocate the remaining funds required to complete this project, consistent with the original. The funding will assist with technology development, consulting and pilot testing necessary to complete this enhanced system. The ISS is vital in managing the risk inherent in collegiate athletics participation by providing a foundation on which to base rules and policy decisions. However, the effectiveness of the current system is limited due to technical, financial and functional constraints. The NCAA general counsel and director of research support ISS enhancement. This project supports the Executive Committee Priority Nos. 2, 3 and 4 and divisional strategic plans to enhance student-athlete welfare.

(c) Budget Impact. $200,000 for the 2002-03 fiscal year and the approval of an administrator to assist in development and application. This request is consistent with the two-year $400,000 request reviewed and supported by all three Management Councils last year.

(2) Dietary Supplement Resource Exchange Center (REC).

(a) Recommendation. Fully fund the REC by allocating $75,000 new drug-education funds for 2002-03 and an additional $10,000 (total $85,000) for 2003-04.

(b) Rationale. Executive Committee Priority No. 2 reinforces the values of fairness and integrity in intercollegiate athletics. Drug-testing appeals heard by the drug-testing subcommittee of the competitive safeguards committee reflected a trend in increased positive tests resulting from supplement use. In the 1999-00 academic year, two-thirds of the positive drug tests appealed involved the substances ephedra and nandrolone metabolites, which are ingested primarily through supplement use. In 2000-01, the percentage of drug-test appeals involving nutritional supplement products approached 90 percent of all appeals. In the spring of 2000, the REC began serving NCAA members with expertise on nutritional supplements. The development and marketing of the REC by The National Center for Drug Free Sport (The Center) have provided student-athletes and athletics staff with a telephone hotline, an informative and updated Web site, and electronic mail account staffed by experts educated in pharmacology and nutrition to assist institutions in supplement education. In the first quarter of 1999-00, The Center fielded 130 requests for information from student-athletes and staff from NCAA member institutions. In the first quarter of 2000-01, following the marketing of the REC, that number increased to 589 requests for information. During its first year of operation (2000-01), the REC was funded through unused funds from the existing drug-education budget. Funding for 2001-02 will be made through education services’ budget savings. This vital service requires new permanent Association-wide funding in order to serve the continuing needs of the membership regarding nutritional supplements and NCAA-banned substances.

b. 2003-04 Budget Requests. Endorse the four health and safety initiatives, listed in priority order, for 2003-04 Association-wide funding. Attachment A outlines the four requests in a chart.

(1) Dietary Supplement Resource Exchange Center (REC). Requesting $10,000 in additional permanent Association-wide funding. (See No. 1-a-(2).)

(2) Nutrition and Eating Disorders Education.

(a) Recommendation. Fund an educational initiative addressing nutrition, optimal body composition and eating disorders that tie current Association efforts with continuing concerns of student-athletes.

(b) Rationale. Twelve years ago the NCAA devoted significant resources to the development of a nutrition and eating disorders educational project consisting of videotapes, resource materials and a poster. These materials were well received by member institutions and the larger sports medicine community. Since that time, other educational pieces were developed. These included new guidelines in the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook, new components to the CHAMPS/Lifeskills program and enhanced Web site information. Discussion in the past two years with student-athletes, administrators, medical personnel and representatives of the CHAMPS/Lifeskills program indicated that nutrition, optimal body composition for performance, body image and eating disorders remain issues of significant concern to collegiate student-athletes. The current initiative includes creation of a representative project team charged with evaluating this issue, developing a plan that can have a measurable effect on the issue within college athletics, and funding of the recommended plan. The national student-athlete advisory committees and the CHAMPS/Lifeskills Advisory Board support this project. It supports Executive Committee Priority Nos. 2 and 4 and divisional strategic plans to enhance student-athlete welfare.

(3) Tobacco Education.

(a) Recommendation. Provide funding to support an exploration and partner with other campus departments and nonprofit organizations to establish new initiatives in tobacco cessation, with an emphasis on cigarette use.

(b) Rationale. The 2001 NCAA Study of Substance Use Habits of College Student-Athletes identified that in the last 12 months, 22.4 percent of student-athletes smoked cigarettes in the last 12 months and 26 percent of those that smoke do so daily.

(4) Speakers Grant.

(a) Recommendation. Provide additional Association-wide funding to enhance the existing NCAA Speakers Grant Fund.

(b) Rationale. The NCAA Speakers Grant provides seed or supplemental funding to the membership to provide programs to student-athletes and athletics staff that address health and safety issues. These funds are fully allocated (funding distributed to 200 institutions in 2000-01), each

year denying applicants of resources. The level of funding for each institution ($500) has remained unchanged since its inception in 1987, while the expense to support programs on campus has increased. This increase would allow the maximum to be raised 50 percent to adjust for the increased costs.

2. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS.

a. Mission, Goals and Objectives. The committee recently developed a new mission statement, goals and objectives as part of its revised strategic plan. (See Attachment B)

b. Drug-Testing Program Analysis. The National Center for Drug Free Sport, the administrator for NCAA drug testing, has provided an analysis of the NCAA drug-testing program. (See Attachment C)

c. Heat Illness Statement. In response to a request from the Executive Committee, the competitive safeguards committee developed a statement on prevention of heat illness that was shared with member institutions. The statement was based primarily on a guideline of the same name found in the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook. (See Attachment D)

d. Protective Eyewear in Women’s Lacrosse. The protective eyewear project team had an August 28 conference call to continue discussion on eye protection in the sport. Specific emphasis was placed on developing optimal specifications for such eye protection devices and identifying variables to track as a possible indicators of dangerous play. Nancy Burke, a member of both the project team and the United States Lacrosse Sports Science and Safety Committee, was appointed chair of the project team.

e. 2001 NCAA Study of Substance Use Habits of College Student-Athletes. This quadrennial study was completed and presented to the CSMAS for its review and approval by the NCAA research staff and is now available on the NCAA Web site. CSMAS will use data from this study to direct its drug-testing and drug-education programs.

Committee Chair: Bryan W. Smith, University of North Carolina

Staff Liaison(s): Randall W. Dick, Health and Safety

Mary E. Wilfert, Health and Safety