SUMMARY OF ACTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS

NCAA DIVISION III MANAGEMENT COUNCIL MEETING

October 25-26, 2000

NCAA DIVISION III PRESIDENTS COUNCIL MEETING

November 1, 2000

[NOTE: SUPPLEMENT NUMBERS REFER TO THE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL SUPPLEMENT, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.]

Staff Liaison(s)/ Council Reps.	Other Staff/ Council Reps.	SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 DIVISION III STRATEGIC PLANNING
Dutcher	All Division III	ISSUE: Division III planning priorities.
Belgiovine	And	Management Council Recommendation:
[Bledsoe	Association -	Approve the updated priorities.
Galgano	wide	Presidents Council Action:
Johnson	Committee	Approved the updated priorities.
O?Neal	Liaisons	ISSUE: Strategic-planning scorecards.
Page		Management Council Recommendation:
Reighn		Approve the updated scorecards, noting that the scorecards to be distributed in January will reflect further revisions.
Springsteen]		Presidents Council Action:
		Approved the updated scorecards.
Staff Liaison(s)/ Council Reps.	Other Staff/ Council Reps.	SUPPLEMENT NO. 2 DIVISION III INITIATIVES TASK FORCE
Dutcher	Berst	ISSUE: Three-year plan.
Belgiovine	Brown, J.	Management Council Recommendation:
[Caine Courtice Die Johnson Landman Page Reighn Springsteen	Green Isch Martin, K. Racy All DIII and A-W Committee Liaisons	Approve the three-year plan to allocate new Division III resources to three priority areas (student-athlete welfare, diversity and membership education) and forward report to the Executive Committee at its January meeting, noting: a. Regular communication with membership is critical (e.g., Newsletter, Web site). b. It is important to develop criteria and articulate basis for selection of NCAWAA and NACDA grant recipients for 2000-01.
Walker]		Presidents Council Action:
		Approved the plan and forward report to the Executive Committee at its January meeting. The Council noted the importance of clear articulation of the process for membership access to resources during the 2001 Convention discussion.

Staff Liaison(s)/ Council Reps.	Other Staff/ Council Reps.	SUPPLEMENT NO. 3 COMMITTEE ON COMPETITIVE SAFEGUARDS AND MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SPORTS
Dick	Berst	ISSUE: Change on the drug-testing consent form.
Wilfert	Brown, J.	Management Council Action:
[Reighn]	Green Racy	Approved the addition of the following statement to the student-athlete drug-testing consent form: "You agree the sample becomes the property of the NCAA."
		ISSUE: Injury Surveillance System (ISS) enhancement.
		Management Council Action:
		Accepted the information that the committee will be forwarding as its number one budget priority a request for Association resources to provide necessary technical upgrades to the NCAA Injury Surveillance System (ISS) over the next two years.
		ISSUE: Nutrition and eating disorders.
		Management Council Action:
		Accepted the information that the committee will be conducting a focus group of national Student-Athlete Advisory Committee members at the upcoming Convention to guide it in a possible request for funding to address nutrition, eating disorders and optimal body composition. This issue remains a major student-athlete welfare concern despite past Association initiatives.
		ISSUE: National Athletic Trainers? Association (NATA) education reform.
		Management Council Action:
		Accepted information that in response to the Executive Committee charge to educate the membership about the potential impact of NATA education reform, the completed report will be presented to the Executive Committee at its November 2 meeting. The document has been reviewed by a competitive safeguards committee project team, representatives of the NATA, national office staff and all three Management Councils. The document will be mailed to the membership in November. This topic also will be discussed during an educational session at the 2001 NCAA Convention.
		ISSUE: Results of NCAA Drug-Testing Program -- July 1999-December 1999.
		Management Council Action:
		Accepted information that the committee identified the number of tests and outcomes for the year-round program and the postseason drug-testing program. A complete review of the NCAA drug-testing program, including a comparative analysis of the past five years, will be submitted to the Management Council following the completion of the 2000 NCAA drug use survey report, scheduled to be released in the Spring 2001.

		ISSUE: Dietary Supplement Resource Exchange Center.
		Management Council Action:
		Accepted information that the committee supports new funding to support the Dietary Supplement Resource Exchange Center, the REC, as its number two funding priority. Nutritional supplements were the source of one half of the positive drug tests heard on appeals last year. The REC provides NCAA membership with an easily accessible resource for questions about nutritional supplements and banned substances.
		ISSUE: Drug-testing expansion.
		Management Council Action:
		Accepted information that the committee supports increasing the drug-testing budget to provide expansion in the drug-testing program, pending review of the data collected in the 2000 NCAA Study of Substance Use and Abuse Habits of College Student-Athletes. Drug-testing expansion is the committee?s number three funding priority.
	Manning	ISSUE: Eye protection in women's lacrosse.
	Berst	Management Council Action:
	Brown, J. Green Racy	Accepted information that three members have been identified to represent the committee in discussions regarding eye protection in women's lacrosse and that the committee anticipates an October conference call with legal counsel, representatives of the divisional women's lacrosse committees and United States Women's Lacrosse Association to begin formal discussion on this topic. The Council noted: ? Need for better data to support recommendation. ? Functionality of current eyewear equipment may be limited.