Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association August 16,1989, Volume 26 Number 29 NCAA study of women student-athletes released J The experiences of women stu- student-athletes appears on pages 6 class. hall players say they have little they think they should receive be- dent-athletes at NCAA Division I and 7 of this issue of The NCAA l Women and men basketball money each month for their per- cause they arc athletes. Similar per- institutions arc featured in the latest News. players score about the same on sonal use, and the women actually centages of women and men say research report from the 1987-88 The report includes comparisons standardized tests such as SAT, but report a little less than the men. they occasionally feel isolated from National Study of Intercollegiate of four groups: Division I women’s the women have higher high school 0 Women student-athletes rate other students. Athletes, conducted by the Ameri- basketball players, Division I men’s grade-point averages than the men. women and men coaches about the l The women basketball players can Institutes for Research at the basketball players, women in other Also, the women average signili- same in terms of the help they believe it is harder for them to know request of the NCAA Presidents Division 1 sports and women in cantly higher GPAs in college than provide both in athletics perform- other students and to get dates (23 Commission. other extracurricular activities. do the men- an average of 2.640 to ance and in areas outside sports. percent and 22 percent, respectively) Now available from the NCAA Among the findings in the report: 2.440. Also, although it is not included in than do the men (five percent and national office, the report is the l Women basketball players l Essentially the same percentage the executive summary, the report two percent, respectively). fourth in a series describing the spend about the same amount of of women and men basketball play- shows that almost 70 percent of the @Not nearly as many women results of the most extensive study time on their sport as do men has- ers receive full athletics grants-in- women’s basketball coaches in Di- express interest in careers in profes- of intercollegiate athletes ever con- ketball players, but they spend more aid-nearly two-thirds of them in vision I are women. sional athletics, reflecting the fact ducted. The complete executive sum- time-about five hours more per each case. l Like the men, women say it is that few such opportunities exist mary of the data regarding women week-in class and preparing for l Both men and women basket- more difficult to earn the grades for women. Single copies of the 70-page re- port are available by sending a $89 million NCAA budget approved written request to NCAA Publish- ing, P.0. Box 1906, Mission, Kansas 66201. Executive Committee to seek vote Previously issued reports in the series were Report No. 1, the sum- mary results of the entire study; on year-round testing for drugs Report No. 2, the methodology After approving an $89 million 90 operating budget is 9..4 percent Aspects of Sports, the Executive employed in the study, and Keport operating budget for 19X9-90, the higher than that approved for 198X- Committee voted to request that No. 3, the experiences of black NCAA Executive Committee acted X9, the projected surplus of the NCAA Council develop and student-athletes. to seek legislation establishing year- $ I ,343,OOO is lower than those for sponsor proposed legislation for the Scheduled to be available late round drug testing, voted to present 19X7-88 ($6,532,136 actual) and 1990 Convention to create a year- this month are Report No. 5, an the membership three options re- 19Xx-89 ($6,252,000 projected). round drug-testing program. analysis of the academic transcripts garding the application of ineligibil- As usual, the Division I Men’s Tests initially would be conducted of student-athletes, and Report No. ity sanctions as a result of positive Basketball Championship, will carry only in selected sports and tar SC- 6, a compilation of the answers drug tests and chminated the certifi- much of the rcvcnue-gtrnerating lected drugs. ‘l‘hc Exccutivc Corn- student-athletes provided voluntar- cation-of-eligibility/ availability weight. It is projected too provide mittcc also indicated that the same ily to open-ended questions in the form for championships. ineligibilIty sanctions applied as study. Mectmg August 14-15 in Hyan- part of the postseason testing pro- nis, Massachusetts, the Exccutivc The Executive gram should be applied to the year- Rodney C. Kelchner Committee also approved criteria Committee voted to round program. to be used by the Division 1 Men’s In other actlon related to the Nomination Kelchner Basketball Committee in determin- draft a statement cornpctitivc-safeguards committee‘s ing which 30 conferences will receive discouraging the use report. the Exccutivc Cornmittcc deadlines automatic qualification for Division denied a request that all tobacco named to 1 tournament beginning in 1990-9 t. of tobacco products products bc banned on the liclds at approaching The Executive Committee also by student-athletes, alI NCAA championships. Instead, authori7cd Icxccutivc Director Rim the Executive Committee voted to Three dcadlincs are approach- Commission chard D. Schultz and members of draft a statement discouraging the ing lor submission of nomina- coaches.I trainers tions lor selvice on various Kodncy C. Kelchncr, president of I he basks1 ball trlevlsion negotiating LISK 01 such products by studs& Mansfield University of Pennsylva- committee to address the issue of and other personnel athletes, otficials. coaches, trainer\ NCAA org;ml/ational entities: ma since July 19X4, has hccn named beer advertising in the Division 1 at NCAA and other personnel involved in September 5: Nominations arc to the NCAA Presidents Commis- Men’s Basketball Championships Association championships. due for Septcnibcr I, IYYO. va- sion. with an eye toward promoting the championships Sanctions up for vote :ancics on NCAA Councrl-ap- He replaces William T. O’Hara, best interests of the Association and T~K Executive Cornrnittcc Sub- Gntcd cornrnittccs, as presented who retired as president of Bryant IIs member institutions and confer- 569,748,000 (77.7 percent of the committee to Rcwew Drup~lksting II the August 2 issue of The College. ewes. revenue budget) next year. Ineligibility Sancrlons, alter rcvicw- UCAA News. ‘I hey should be Kelchner will serve as a Division Also approved were policies and Detailed analysts of the 19X9-90 ing the results 01 a survey sent ;ubmittcd to Fannie B. Vaughan, 11 representative of Region 1 unlil proccdurcs dcsigncd to cnhancc the operating hudgct will appear in a carlicr this year to member confer- :xccutive assistant, at the NCAA January 1990 and then will he eligi- presentation of the Division I tour- futwc issue of The NCAA News. rnccs and sclcctcd athletics directors, iational office. September 5: ble for reelection to a full term on namcnt and to achicvc the level of Year-round testing sought recOITlmKndKd that three lcgislativc Also due Scp- the Commission. quality control desirable fork this After rcvicwing a report from the alternatives regarding the applica- cmbcr 5 are nominations for He has been at Mansfield for 25 prestigious event. Association’s Commrttsc on Corn- tion of team sanctions he forwarded I;inuary 1990 vacancies in See h’dchnm page 2 Although the $X9,728,000 19X9- pctitivc Safeguards and Medical VCAA offices and on the NCAA :‘ouncil. I‘hcsc also were listed n the August 2 issue of the VKWS. Nommatlons should be Council will proceed with certification program ,ent both to the chair ot the ‘l‘hK NCAA Council has agreed of Pennsylvania; John M. Schacl, be offered on a voluntary basis. January 1990 NCAA Convention: Vominating Committee (Karen to proceed with the development of director of athletics, Washington The Institutional Self-Study l The Council directed that legis- L. Miller, Director of Athletics, a voluntary certification program University (Missouri); Robert R. Guide, currently an NCAA rcquirc- lation hc prcparcd for review by :‘alifornia State Polytechnic IlniL for Division I intercollegiate athlet- Sncll, faculty athletics representa- mcnt, would scrvc as the basis for Icgal counsel and by the Council in ilcrsity, 3X01 ‘l‘cmplc, Pomona, its programs, as proposed earlier tive, Kansas State University, and the initial evaluation of specrfic October that would, in effect, rc- California 91768) and to this year by Executive Director Charlotte West, associate director aspects of the institution’s athletics move financial aid considerations Vaughan at the national office. Richard D. Schultz. of athletics, Southern Illinois IJnii program, with certain specific fo- frorn the initial-eligibility provisions rhsy also can br submitted to In its summer meeting August 2- versity, Carbondale. cuses to be identified. After the of Bylaw 14.3. This approach was my member of the Nominating initial evaluation, NCAA staff 4 in San Diego, the Council author- By establishing the program on a recommended by the Council Sub- Committee. ized Schultz to complete the details trial basis, no legislation would bc members or a peer-review team cornmittcc to Review Proposal No. Septemher 18: Nominations of a certification program for review ncccssary to implement the project. would be assigned to visit the insti- 42, and it mirrors an earlier recom- 1rc due for January 1990 vacan- by the NCAA Presidents Commis- The tentative approach would be to tution to discuss problem areas, mendation by the Committee on :ics on the NCAA Prcsidcnts make recommendations to the chief sion and the Council in their respec- attempt to encourage at least one or Financial Aid and Amateurism.