SEPTEMBER 2001 REPORT OF THE NCAA COMMITTEE ON
COMPETITIVE SAFEGUARDS AND MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SPORT
1. ACTION ITEMS.
a. 2002-03 Budget
Requests. The following items,
listed in priority order, are the Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of
Sports Committee’s (CSMAS) requests for health and safety initiatives funded by
2002-03 Association-wide dollars.
The committee requests the NCAA Division I Championships/ Competition
Cabinet endorse these initiatives and forward support for funding to the NCAA
Division I Management Council.
Attachment A contains an abbreviated outline of the two requests.
(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 at the
February 2001 Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet meeting. That request, $250,000 for the 2001-02
fiscal year and $150,000 for the 2002-03 fiscal year, was supported by all
three management councils.
Subsequently, the NCAA 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 request from last February. These costs will cover technology
development, consulting and pilot testing necessary to complete this enhanced
system. The ISS is vital in
managing the risk inherent in the Association’s commitment to health and safety
issues 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 NCAA
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 establishment of an administrator position to assist in development and
application. This dollar 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 September 2002 through August 2003 and
$85,000 for September 2003 through August 2004.
(b) Rationale. NCAA Executive Committee Priority No. 2
reinforces the values of fairness and integrity in intercollegiate athletics.
Drug-testing appeals heard by the drug-testing subcommittee 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.
(c) Budget
Impact. $160,000 in new allocations over the course of the next
funding cycle.
b. 2003-04 Budget Requests. The following items, listed in
priority order, are the Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports
Committee’s requests for health and safety initiatives funded by 2003-04
Association-wide dollars. The
committee requests the Championships Competition Cabinet endorse these
initiatives and forward support for funding to the NCAA Division I Management
Council. Attachment No. A contains
an abbreviated outline of the four requests.
(1) Dietary
Supplement Resource Exchange Center (REC). Requesting $10,000 in additional permanent Association-wide
funding. (See No. 1.b.)
(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 indicate 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 this 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 NCAA Executive
Committee Priority Nos. 2 and 4 and divisional strategic plans to enhance
student-athlete welfare.
(c) Budget
Impact. $100,000.
(3) Tobacco
Education.
(a) Recommendation. Provide funding to support an
exploration into partnering with other campus departments and non-profit
organizations on 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.
(c) Budget Implication. $5,000 new Association-wide funding.
(4) Speakers Grant.
(a) Recommendation. Provide an additional permanent
Association-wide allocation to the existing NCAA Speakers Grant Fund.
(b) Rationale. The NCAA Speakers Grant provides seed or supplemental
funding to the membership to bring programs to student-athletes and athletics
staff to address health and safety issues. These funds are used to capacity (funding at 200
institutions in 2000-01), and each year applicants are turned away. The level of funding for each
institution has remained unchanged since its inception in 1987, while the
charge to bring programs to campus has increased. This increase would allow the maximum to be raised 50
percent to adjust for the increased costs.
(c) Budget Impact. $50,000 in permanent Association-wide
funding.
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. (Attachment C)
c. Heat
Illness Statement. In response to a request from the NCAA 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.
d. Protective
Eyewear in Women’s Lacrosse. The protective eyewear project team
will have a conference call in late August to continue discussion on eye
protection in the sport. Specific
emphasis will be placed on developing optimal specifications for such an eye
protection device. Nancy Burke, a
member of both the project team and the United States Lacrosse Sports Science
and Safety Committee, has developed an initial draft of specifications.
e. 2001 NCAA Study
of Substance Use Habits of College Student-Athletes. This
quadrennial study was completed and presented to the Committee on Competitive
Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (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
