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DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIPS
COMMITTEE
Summary of
Recommendations
ACTION ITEMS – MANAGEMENT COUNCIL ONLY
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1. ISSUE: |
Sports Committee Chair Appointments. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve the following sports committee chair appointments: (a) Baseball Committee. Eric Etchison, coach, Maryville
College. (b) Women’s Golf
Committee. Stephen Fritz,
director of athletics, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). (c) Women’s Ice Hockey
Committee. Al Bean, director
of athletics, University of Southern Maine. (d) Men’s Ice Hockey
Committee. Russ Reilly,
director of athletics, Middlebury College. (e) Women’ Lacrosse
Committee. Laura Moan, coach,
State University College at Oneonta. (f) Rowing Committee. Judy McMullen, associate director of
athletics, Lewis and Clark College. (g) Men’s and
Women’s Swimming and Diving Committee. Peggy Carl, men’s and
women’s swimming coach, Occidental College. (h) Men’s and
Women’s Tennis National Committee. John Shackelford, men’s tennis
coach, University of the South. (i) Women’s
Tennis Subcommittee. Scott
Thielke, coach, Kenyon College. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the appointments. |
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2. ISSUE: |
Women’s Bowling (Bylaws 17.6.4,
17.6.5.3 and 31.4.6.4). |
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Subcommittee Recommendation: |
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Approve the following bylaw modifications: (a) Bylaw
17.6.4. That a member
institution must conclude all practice and competition (games and scrimmages)
in the sport of women’s bowling by the last date of final exams for the
regular academic year at the institution. (b) Bylaw 17.6.5.3. That a member institution may not
exempt competition in the bowling national governing body championship and
instead a member institution may exempt competition in the NCAA Women’s
Bowling Championship. (c) Bylaw 31.4.6.4. That the women's bowling squad size be
increased to 10 and travel party increased to 13. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Agreed to adopt noncontroversial legislation. The Council noted that the women's bowling squad and travel party size are funded through Association-wide resources. |
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3. ISSUE: |
Women’s Lacrosse
Rules Committee. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve the creation of an Association-wide
NCAA women’s lacrosse rules committee. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Agreed to adopt noncontroversial legislation. |
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4. ISSUE: |
Men’s and Women’s Tennis – Sunday Start Times
(Bylaw 31.4.4.1). |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve that men’s and women’s tennis be granted a waiver of Bylaw 31.1.4.4.1, effective with the 2004 championships to begin preliminary round competition at 9 a.m. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the waiver. |
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5. ISSUE: |
Basketball Playing Rules Committee –
Three-Point Line and Trapezoid Lane. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve the adoption of the international
distance for the three-point line and deny the request to adopt the
international trapezoid free-throw/three-second lane. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Denied the recommendation.
The Council noted that the issue requires common action by all three
divisions and will be forwarded to the Playing Rules Oversight Group and the
Executive Committee for final action. |
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6. ISSUE: |
Softball Playing Rules Committee –
Swing-Speed Research. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Refer the request to complete research
testing on collegiate-aged women softball players to identify the swing-speed
range of collegiate student-athletes to the Competitive Safeguards and
Medical Aspects of Sports Committee (CSMAS). |
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Management Council Action: |
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Referred the recommendation to the CSMAS. |
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7. ISSUE: |
Softball Playing Rules Committee –
Jewelry Prohibition. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve the request to remove the jewelry rule
in softball, which previously prohibited any jewelry except medical alert
bracelets, barrettes and necklaces, if taped to the body. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the recommendation. |
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8. ISSUE: |
Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Playing Rules
Subcommittee. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve the standard for an outdoor running
track at 400 meters or 440 yards in length and that the standard indoor
running track at 200 meters or 220 yards. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the recommendation. |
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9. ISSUE: |
Individual/Team Sport
Automatic-Qualification (AQ) Principles/ Timeline. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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1. Endorse the
establishment of an individual/team sport AQ process in the sports of cross
country, tennis and golf and the following guiding principles effective with
the 2006-07 championships: (a)
Establish and maintain a team access ratio of
1:7.5; (b)
Maintain current individual qualifier access
and the individual portion of the championship; (c) Fully fund all championship
competition, including the creation or expansion of existing
preliminary-round competition; (d) Establish equitable access
for independent institutions through Pool B access; (e) Commit to draft legislation
for the 2005 NCAA Convention, with an effective date of 2006-07. b. Endorse
following timeline to accomplish this goal: (a) December 1, 2003. Relevant sports committees forward
plans consistent with AQ principles.
Plans must address bracket size (including Pools A, B and C),
championship format (including all proposed preliminary-round competition)
and process for selection of individual participants. (b) December 1, 2003 –
January 20, 2004. NCAA staff
determines financial implications of proposed formats. (c) January 20, 2003. Championships Committee reviews and
approves of proposed formats. (d) February – March,
2004. Relevant sports
committees share/communicate proposed formats with membership. Sports committees may handle this
independently; all communication must be approved by John Williams, NCAA
director of championships. (e) April – May, 2004. Sports committees finalize AQ plans. (f) June, 2004. Submission of proposed championships
formats forwarded to the Championships Committee for final approval;
Championships Committee forwards recommendation for legislation at the 2005
NCAA Convention to the Management Council. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the recommendation for establishment of an individual/team sport AQ process in the sports of cross country, tennis and golf, including legislation for the 2005 NCAA Convention. The Council noted: (a) the effective date for each sport may be delayed based on the Division III budget; and (b) the implementation of tennis is the priority, followed by cross country and/or golf. |
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10. ISSUE: |
NCAA/NAIA Joint Declaration (Bylaw
31.2.1.4). |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Amend Bylaw 31.2.1.4 to revise the
declaration date for NCAA/NAIA joint membership from the present
mid-September deadline to August 15.
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Management Council Action: |
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Agreed to adopt noncontroversial
legislation. |
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11. ISSUE: |
Under 50-Mile Project. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve a policy to reimburse institutions for
ground transportation for travel less than 50 miles from either campus to a
local airport or from the destination airport to the host site, effective
with the 2003-04 championships for all Division III sports. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the recommendation. |
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12. ISSUE: |
Sport Committee Appointments. |
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Committee Recommendation: |
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Approve the following appointments: (a) Division
III Women’s Basketball Committee. Mid-Atlantic region (replacing Amy
Buxbaum): Yvonne Kauffman,
assistant director of athletics/head women’s basketball coach,
Elizabethtown College. (b) Division
III Men’s Golf Committee.
Central region (replacing Christopher Ragsdale): Dennis Bridges, director of athletics,
Illinois Wesleyan University. (c) Division
III Women’s Rowing Committee.
Mid-Atlantic region (replacing Mike Davenport): Debora Lazorik, director of athletics,
Marietta College. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Approved the appointments. |
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13. ISSUE: |
Budget Priorities. |
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Committee Action: |
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The committee noted that it would
forward a draft of initiatives that were tentatively approved by the
committee, as well as a prioritized listing of the remaining requests for
approval by the Council at its April meeting. The prioritized list of initiatives
that will be further reviewed at its January meeting include: (1) Team per diem ($60 to $65
in 2004-05; $65 to $70 in 2005-06).
(Approximately $470,000) (2) Officials fees. (Approximately
$80,000) (3) Officials' per diem ($30 to
$45 throughout the two years). (Approximately $48,000) (4) Increased travel party for
selected team sports (baseball, men’s/women’s basketball, and
women’s rowing) to allow all team sports to have five
nonstudent-athletes in their travel party. (5) Increase of per diem days
for individual/team sport championships (i.e., provide per diem after a
student-athlete has finished competing until the team travel party departs). (6) Increase number of
nonstudent-athletes in travel party for individual/team sports. (7) Participant awards. The committee noted that its intent for the
top three prioritized budget items is to develop a cycle within the biennial
budget process that will address officials’ fees equitably in all
championships. NCAA staff was
directed to research several areas, including the fee structure for officials
in all championships, the history of fee increases within each sport and
conference pay scale, etc. |
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Management Council Action: |
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The Council recommended the following priorities for consideration, based on budget parameters: (1) Establishment of individual/team sport automatic qualification, noting a staggered implementation beginning with tennis. (2) Per diem increases for championships participants from $60 to $70. (3) Establishment of individual/team sport automatic qualification for cross country and golf. |
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ITEMS OF INFORMATION
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1. ISSUE: |
2004-05 and 2005-06 Budget Requests. |
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Committee Action: |
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The committee reviewed all sports
committees' requests and tentatively supported a series of requests totaling
approximately $213,000 for the 2004-06 budget cycle. Formal prioritized budget requests
will be forwarded to the Division III Budget Committee and the Council in
April. |
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Management Council Action: |
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Accepted the information. |
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2. ISSUE: |
Sports Committee Recommendations. |
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Committee Action: |
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The committee approved the following sport
committee recommendations: (1) Baseball. (a) Approved automatic
qualification to the 2004 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship for the
following conferences:
American Southwest Conference; Centennial Conference; College
Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin; Commonwealth Coast Conference;
Commonwealth Conference; USA South Athletic Conference; Freedom Conference;
Great Northeast Athletic Conference; Heartland Collegiate Athletic
Conference; Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Lake Michigan
Conference; Little East Conference; Massachusetts State College Athletic
Conference; Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Midwest Conference;
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; New England Small College
Athletic Conference; New England Women’s and Men’s Athletics
Conference; New Jersey Athletic Conference; North Coast Athletic Conference;
Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference; Northwest Conference; Ohio Athletic
Conference; Old Dominion Athletic Conference; Pennsylvania Athletic
Conference; Skyline Conference; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference; Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference; St. Louis
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; State University of New York Athletic
Conference; Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association; and Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. (b)
Approved
the following pool allocation for the 2004 championship: Pool A – 32, Pool B – 7
and Pool C – 3. (2)
Men’s
Basketball. (a) Approved automatic
qualification to the 2004 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship for the
following conferences: American
Southwest Conference; Capital Athletic Conference, Centennial Conference;
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin; Commonwealth Conference;
Commonwealth Coast Conference; City University of New York Athletic
Conference; Empire 8; Freedom Conference; Great Northeast Athletic
Conference; Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference; Iowa Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference; Lake Michigan Conference; Little East Conference;
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference; Michigan Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference; Midwest Conference; Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference; New England Small College Athletic Conference; New England
Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference; New Jersey Athletic
Conference; North Coast Conference; Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference;
Northwest Conference; Ohio Athletic Conference; Old Dominion Athletic
Conference; Pennsylvania Athletic Conference; Skyline Conference; Southern
California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Southern Collegiate Athletic
Conference; St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; State University
of New York Athletic Conference; University Athletic Association; Upstate
Collegiate Athletic Association; USA South Athletic Conference; and Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. (b)
Approved
the following pool allocation for the 2004 championship: Pool A – 36; Pool B – 6;
and Pool C – 6. (3)
Women’s
Basketball. (a) Approved automatic
qualification to the 2004 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship for the
following conferences: American
Southwest Conference; Atlantic Women’s Colleges Conference; Capital
Athletic Conference; Centennial Conference; City University of New York
Athletic Conference; College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin;
Commonwealth Coast Conference; Commonwealth Conference; Empire 8; Freedom
Conference; Great Northeast Athletic Conference; Heartland Collegiate
Athletic Conference; Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Lake Michigan
Conference; Little East Conference; Massachusetts State College Athletic
Conference; Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association; Midwest
Conference; Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; New England Small
College Athletic Conference; New England Women’s and Men’s
Athletics Conference; New Jersey Athletic Conference; North Coast Athletic
Conference; Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference; Northwest Conference; Ohio
Athletic Conference; Old Dominion Athletic Conference; Pennsylvania Athletic
Conference; Skyline Conference; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference; Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference; St. Louis
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; State University of New York Athletic
Conference; USA South Athletic Conference; University Athletic Association;
Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association; and Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference. (b) Approved
the following pool allocation for the 2004 championship: Pool A – 37; Pool B – 7;
and Pool C - 6 (4)
Football.
Approved the request to realign the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate
Athletic Corporation from the South evaluation region to the East evaluation
region, effective with the 2004 championship. (5)
Men’s Golf. (a) Approved
Oglethorpe University and the Central Florida Sports Commission to serve as
co-hosts for the 2005 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championship to be
held in Howey-in-the-Hills, (b) Approved
rules officials expenses. (6)
Women’s
Golf. Approved realignment for the following:
Spelman College from region 3 to region 1; Ohio Athletic Conference from
region 1 to region 2; Piedmont
College and Thomas More College from region 2 to region 1; and Westminster
College (Missouri) from region 3 to region 5, effective 2004-05. (7)
Men’s
Ice Hockey. (a) Approved automatic qualification to the 2004
NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championship for the following conferences: ECAC East Ice Hockey League (East
Region); ECAC Northeast Ice Hockey League (East Region); Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (West Region); New England Small College
Athletic Conference (East Region); Northern Collegiate Hockey Association
(West Region); and State University of New York Athletic Conference (East
Region). (b) Approved the following pool
allocation for the 2004 championship:
Pool A – 6; Pool B – 1; and Pool C – 2. (c) Approved the request for
predetermined final sites for the 2006, 2007 and 2008 championships. (8)
Women’s
Ice Hockey. (a) Approved automatic qualification
to the 2004 NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Championship for the following
conferences: ECAC East Women’s Hockey League; ECAC Women’s West
Ice Hockey League; Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; and New
England Small College Athletic Conference. (b) Approved the following pool
allocation for the 2004 championship:
Pool A – 4; Pool B – 1; and Pool C – 2. (c) Approved the championship
date formula change to Friday and Saturday, effective with the 2004
championship. (9)
Men’s
Lacrosse. (a) Approved automatic qualification to the 2004
NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship for the following conferences: Capital Athletic Conference;
Centennial Conference; Commonwealth Coast Conference; Empire 8; Knickerbocker
Lacrosse Conference, Little East Conference; Middle Atlantic States
Collegiate Athletic Corporation; New England Small College Athletic
Conference; Old Dominion Athletic Conference; Pennsylvania Athletic
Conference; Pilgrim League; State University of New York Athletic Conference;
and Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association. (b) Approved the following pool
allocations for the 2004 championship:
Pool A – 13; Pool B – 2; Pool C - 2 (c)
Approved
the site for the 2005 and 2006 Divisions I, II and III Men’s Lacrosse
Championships. The University of
Pennsylvania will serve as host for the competition to be conducted at
Lincoln Financial Field. (d)
Accepted
the information that the men’s lacrosse committee eliminated the chief
bench official, effective with the 2003-04 season. (10)
Women’s Lacrosse. (a) Approved automatic
qualification to the 2004 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship for the
following conferences:
Centennial; Commonwealth Coast; Empire 8; Little East; Middle Atlantic
States Conference; New England Small College Athletic Conference; New England
Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference; New England Women’s
Lacrosse Alliance; North Coast Athletic Conference; Old Dominion Athletic
Conference; Pennsylvania Athletic Conference; State University of New York
Athletic Conference; and Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association. (b) Approved
the following pool allocations for the 2004 championship: Pool A – 13; Pool B – 4;
Pool C – 2 (c)
Approved St. John Fisher College, Rochester,
New York to serve as host for the 2004 championship. (d) | |