{"id":17890,"date":"2023-01-03T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/ncaa-di-committee-releases-report-on-student-athlete-wellbeing-hoopfeed-com\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:15:40","slug":"ncaa-di-committee-releases-report-on-student-athlete-wellbeing-hoopfeed-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/ncaa-di-committee-releases-report-on-student-athlete-wellbeing-hoopfeed-com\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA DI Committee Releases Report on Student-Athlete Wellbeing \u2013 Hoopfeed.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ahead of next week\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NCAA Convention in San Antonio<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the DI Board of Directors released the report \u201cElevating support for student-athletes\u2019 mental, physical, and academic wellbeing.\u201d Authored by the NCAA\u2019s Division I Transformation Committee, the report represents \u201cthe deliberations, evaluations and actions on some of the biggest challenges facing Division I athletics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The challenges listed in the report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How can we provide additional support to student-athletes, and what other resources are needed to improve their experience?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How can we make that experience more equitable?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What should be expected of all Division I member institutions?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Is the range of schools in Division I too broad? Are the differences between our athletics departments irreconcilably large?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How should revenue and resources be distributed across Division I?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How do we address the budgetary needs of Division I schools with clear resource limitations?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How do we balance fairness and autonomy?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What are the emerging legal issues that impact our rule-making?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The laundry list of recommendations includes the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Requiring a minimum of two years of medical coverage following graduation or completing one\u2019s athletic experience for athletic-related injuries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A requirement for a \u201cdirect pathway for full-time clinical services of a licensed mental health professional exclusively dedicated to serving student-athletes.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Providing 10 years of graduation completion funds for full scholarship student-athletes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A new DI governance structure with greater student-athlete participation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Altering the DI revenue distribution model to \u201creflect contemporary Division I values and account for athletic performance in more sports than men\u2019s basketball.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The report concluded with the statement:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe look forward to seeing these recommendations continue to take hold, as we know they will meaningfully support the Division I student-athletes of today and tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Julie Cromer, director of athletics at Ohio University, and Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, are the committee\u2019s co-chairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read the full report\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">here<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"single-post-ad\" href=\"https:\/\/fanatics.93n6tx.net\/VyKmzJ\"><br \/>\n     <\/a>        <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of next week\u2019s\u00a0NCAA Convention in San Antonio, the DI Board of Directors released the report \u201cElevating support for student-athletes\u2019 mental, physical, and academic wellbeing.\u201d Authored by the NCAA\u2019s Division I Transformation Committee, the report represents \u201cthe deliberations, evaluations and actions on some of the biggest challenges facing Division I athletics.\u201d The challenges listed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[3890,3671,316,912,534,2803,3891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17892,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions\/17892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}