RELATED TO
MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
SUPPLEMENT NO. 18

NCAA DIVISION III INTERPRETATIONS AND LEGISLATION COMMITTEE --

Summary of Recommendations

ACTION ITEMS ? MANAGEMENT COUNCIL ONLY

1. ISSUE:	Editorial Revision ? NCAA Bylaw 14.2.4.3.2.1 (Competition Exceptions ? Seasons-of-Com-petition Rule).
Committee Recommendation:
Editorially revise Bylaw 14.2.4.3.2.1 to clarify that an individ-ual is permitted only one ?exempt? year of preparatory school competition under the ?seasons-of-competition? legislation in Bylaw 14.2.4.3.
Management Council Action:
Approved the recommendation.
Presidents Council Action:
Endorsed the Management Council?s action.
2. ISSUE:	Interpretation ? Use of Ergometers and the Safety Exception in Women?s Rowing (Bylaw 17.17.9).
Committee Recommendation:
Approve the following interpretation related to the use of ergometers and the safety exception in women?s rowing (Bylaw 17.17.9): Use of Ergometers and the Safety Exception in Women?s Rowing (III). An ergometer (i.e., a rowing machine) is not considered equipment related to the sport of rowing. Therefore, in the sport of women?s rowing, a coach may not be present during a student-athlete?s voluntary individual workouts in the institution?s regular practice facility when the student-athlete uses an ergometer, unless such workouts are considered athletically related activities and occur during the institution?s declared playing and practice season for rowing.
Management Council Action:
Approved the recommendation.
Presidents Council Action:
Endorsed the Management Council?s action.

3. ISSUE:	Interpretation ? Bylaw 14.2.5 (Hardship Waiver).
Committee Recommendation:
Approve the following interpretation related to Bylaw 14.2.5 (Hardship Waiver). Hardship Waiver ? Competition considered a ?no contest? (III). For purposes of de-termining whether or not a student-athlete is eligible to receive a hardship waiver, competition that is considered a ?no contest? under the playing rules for the applicable sport does not count towards the institution?s number of completed contests or towards the student-athlete?s number of contests or dates of competition.
Management Council Action:
Approved the interpretation.
Presidents Council Action:
Endorsed the Management Council?s action.
4. ISSUE:	Interpretation ? 2003 NCAA Convention Proposal No. 45 (Recruiting ?Definition of a Contact).
Committee Recommendation:
Approve the following interpretation related to 2003 NCAA Convention Proposal No. 45 (recruiting ? definition of a contact): 2003 NCAA Proposal No. 45 (recruiting ? contact) and definition of ?institu-tional staff member? (III). For purposes of 2003 NCAA Proposal No. 45 (Re-cruiting ? Contact), the phrase ?institutional staff member? refers to staff members of the institution?s athletics department.
Management Council Action:
Approved the interpretation.
Presidents Council Action:
Endorsed the Management Council?s action.

Management Council Action:
Accepted the information.
2. ISSUE:	Multi-day Track Tournaments and Contest Limitations.
Committee Action:
The committee requests that the Division III Management Council Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee consider whether or not to propose legislation for the 2004 NCAA Convention that would allow multiday track tournaments to count as single dates of competition. Similar legislation currently exists for the sports of skiing and wrestling.
Management Council Action:
Accepted the information, noting that the Management Council Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee declined to propose legislation that would allow multi-day track tournaments to count as single dates of competition. [See Supplement No. 12.]