REPORT OF THE
NCAA DIVISION III MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
MEETING
NCAA DIVISION III PRESIDENTS COUNCIL
MEETING
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MC
SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 AW
– COMMITTEE ON COMPETITITVE SAFEGUARDS AND MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SPORTS Staff
Liaisons: Klossner, Wilfert Council
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ISSUE: Division III Year Round Drug Education
and Testing Pilot. |
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Management Council Recommendation: Consistent with
survey results, input from the Division III Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee and the following three goals:
enhance student-athlete well being; emphasis on education; and
competitive equity: 1.
Allocate $325,000 for 2006-07 to enhance
alcohol, tobacco and other drug education programming for Division III member
institutions through two existing NCAA grant programs (i.e., CHOICES Grant
and NCAA Health and Safety Speakers Grants). ·
Provide five additional institutions (total
of eight for 06-07) a CHOICES Grant ($30,000 each x 5 = $150,000). ·
Provide $1,000 grants to 100 additional
Division III institutions ($100,000) per NCAA Health and Safety Speakers
Grant Program. ·
Provide $500 matching speaker’s grants
to 150 Division III institutions with approved Association-wide funding
($75,000). 2.
Implement for 2007-09 a voluntary two-year
(academic-year Sept-May) comprehensive drug education and testing pilot
program without penalties to include pre- and post survey 3.
Recommend CSMAS pursue social norming
information and data related to use of performance enhancing drugs by
Division III student-athletes. Subsequent to
the Management Council meeting, staff developed the following administrative
plan: Key Elements of Model
Alcohol and Drug Education Program. Annually: Develop a written policy on alcohol,
tobacco and other drugs. This
policy should include a statement on activities related to student-athlete
recruitment visits, drug testing, discipline, and counseling or treatment
options. ·
Review and update the NCAA, conference and
institutional drug-testing program policies. ·
Include NCAA list of banned substances and
written policies in student-athlete handbook. ·
Identify the rules regarding the use of
street drugs, performance enhancing substances, and nutritional supplements,
and consequences for breaking the rules. ·
Include the following printed warning in the
student-athlete handbook: “All
nutritional/dietary supplements carry some risk of containing an NCAA banned
substance because they are not well regulated and may be contaminated. Failure to check out any supplement
with your sports medicine staff prior to use may result in a failed appeal
for a positive drug test.
Student-athletes are responsible for anything they ingest”. Summer: Send out the NCAA list of Banned
Drugs, the above warning and the REC* bookmarks to all returning
student-athletes and known incoming student-athletes. Orientation
at start of academic year: ·
Ensure that student-athletes sign compliance
forms. ·
Provide student-athletes with a copy of the
written drug policies. ·
Show NCAA Drug-Education and Testing video. ·
Provide student-athletes a copy of the
brochure “NCAA Drug Policies – for your health and safety.” ·
Verbally explain drug policies with
student-athletes: o
NCAA banned drug classes with examples (note
that all related compounds under each class are banned, whether or not they
are listed as an example.) o
NCAA drug-testing policies and consequences
for testing positive, including failure to show or tampering with urine
sample. o
Risks of using nutritional/dietary
supplements – read the statement from the handbook: §
Potential for contamination – Buyer
Beware! What’s on the label
is not necessarily what’s in the bottle. §
Legally purchased over-the-counter and
internet products may contain NCAA banned substances. §
Check any supplement or medication with
athletic trainer before consuming. o
Conference and institutional drug-testing
program policies. o
Street drug use policies and institutional
sanctions for violations. o
NCAA tobacco use ban during practice or
competition. Start of Second Semester: Repeat orientation agenda at start of
new semester to reinforce messages and to ensure transfer student-athletes
are exposed to this information. Through-out the year: ·
Repeat the information from the orientation
at team meetings throughout the year. ·
Educational programming – utilize NCAA
resources in addition to institutional resources. ·
NCAA Health and Safety Speakers Grant
program to bring in an outside speaker each semester to address alcohol and
other drug issues. ·
Participate in the APPLE Conferences: Promoting Student-Athlete Wellness and
Substance ·
Display posters and other NCAA educational
materials in high-traffic areas. *For
authoritative information on NCAA banned substances, medications and
nutritional supplements, contact the Resource Exchange Center (REC) at
877-202-0769 or www.drugfreesport.com/rec
(password in ncaa1, ncaa2 or ncaa3 according to your divisional affiliation). Key NCAA Alcohol Tobacco
and Other Drug (ATOD) Educational Programs. CHOICES Grant. The CHOICES
program seeks to encourage NCAA institutions and conferences to implement and
evaluate effective campus-wide programs that integrate student-athletes and
athletics into alcohol-education efforts. Funding programs are designed to work
toward the elimination of high-risk consumption of alcohol on college
campuses by promoting low-risk choices. The implications
of the CHOICES grant for NCAA institutions are many, including: ·
To provide resources for small institutions
to accomplish broad goals and objectives, and larger institutions to improve or
focus in on target areas. ·
Providing peer education, under adequate
supervision, as a viable intervention. ·
Encouraging campus collaboration as an
effective method for effecting change on a much broader scale than just in
the athletics department. $30,000 grants
are awarded for a three-year project.
The award payout is provided as follows: $15,000 the first year, $10,000 the
second year and $5,000 the third year.
The approach is designed to encourage the institution to assume
greater responsibility for maintaining the program. Program Name: Health and Safety Speakers
Grant. Goal: The Association
offers funds to assist member institutions in bringing expert speakers to
campus to address issues related to wellness and drug education. Target Audience: ·
Primary: student-athletes. ·
Secondary: athletics administrators and other
students. Number of Participants: Over 2000 programs have been funded in
the past seven years with an average of 86,000 students attending the speaker
sessions per year. Recent Division III
Participation History: 2003-04 –
59 out 198 grants were for DIII (36%) (Spring only, when we began to keep
divisional data). 2004-05 – 172 of 470 grants were for DIII (36%). |