Katie Willett and Eric Hartung

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Division III Sports Sponsorship and
Championships

• Katie Willett and Eric Hartung

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Overview

• Sports sponsorship.
• Minimum contests and participants.
• Championships selection criteria.
• Putting the pieces together.

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Sports Sponsorship

• NCAA BYLAW 20.11.3

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Sport Sponsorship

• A member institution shall sponsor a minimum
  number of sports.
• All sports used to meet minimum requirements must
  meet minimum contest and participant requirements
  per NCAA Bylaw 20.11.3.5.

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Acceptable Sports

• Sports designated to meet the sports sponsorship
  criteria shall
• Be among those in which the Association sponsors
  a championship.
• Be recognized by the institution as varsity
  intercollegiate sports.
• Involve all-male teams, mixed teams of males and
  females or all-female teams.

Bylaw 20.11.3.1
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Current Sports Sponsorship

• A member institution shall sponsor a minimum of
• Five varsity sports for all-male teams or mixed
  teams.
• Five all-female varsity sports.
• Including three team sports for each gender.
• One sport conducted in each sport season for each
  gender.

Bylaw 20.11.3
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2010 Sports Sponsorship

• A member institution shall sponsor a minimum
  number of sports based on institutional
  enrollment.

Bylaw 20.11.3
Effective -- August 1, 2010
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2010 Sports Sponsorship

• Enrollment of 1,000 students or less.
• Five all-male teams (or mixed teams).
• Three team sports.
• One sport in each sport season.
• Five all-female teams.
• Three team sports.
• One sport in each sport season.

Bylaw 20.11.3.1
Effective -- August 1, 2010
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2010 Sports Sponsorship

• Enrollment of more than 1,000 students.
• Six all-male teams (or mixed teams).
• Three team sports.
• One sport in each sport season.
• Six all-female teams.
• Three team sports.
• One sport in each sport season.

Effective -- August 1, 2010
Bylaw 20.11.3.2
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Counting Multi-Season Sports. 

• If sponsors same sport in two different seasons
• May only count in season in which participate in
  most contests.
• Majority of contests or dates of competition
• September -- December Fall Sport.
• December -- March Winter Sport.
• February -- May Spring Sport.

Bylaw 20.11.3.4
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Scenario

• Institution enrollment 900.
• Sports sponsorship.
• Men's Five teams.
• Women's Six teams.
• One-year enrollment spike leads toenrollment
  1,050.
• Compliant or noncompliant?

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Minimum contests and participants requirements
for sports sponsorship

• BYLAW 20.11.3.5

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Minimum Contests and Participants

• Requirements for Sports Sponsorship. 
• Against varsity programs of four-year,
  degree-granting collegiate institutions.
• Individual sports need a minimum number of
  participants in each contest counted toward
  meeting the minimum-contests requirement. 

Bylaw 20.11.3.5
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Contests Versus Club Teams

• A contest against a collegiate institution's club
  team may not be counted toward meeting the
  minimum-contest requirements.
• However, a member is not precluded from
  scheduling club teams.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.7
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Team Sports
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Individual Sports
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Completion of Contest

• To count as a contest, the institution's team
  actually shall participate in and complete the
  contest.
• Scheduled contests that are canceled or not
  completed may not be counted.
• In accordance with the playing rules of the sport
  in question.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.1
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Counting Multi-Contest Events

• In the team sports, each game in a double-header,
  triple-header or tournament shall be counted as
  one contest.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.3
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Multi-Team Events Individual Sports

• Not more than two institution-versus-institution
  meetings shall be counted as contests.
• Example Quadrangular track and field meet.
• If the institution achieves a single score in
  competition with the other competing institutions
  it shall be counted as one contest.
• Example A conference championship.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.4
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Meets No Team Scoring

• A meet at which no team scoring is kept counts as
  a contest
• Provided the minimum number of participants
  participate on the institution's team.
• Per Bylaw 20.11.3.5.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.4.1
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Individual Sports -- One or More Sites

• An institution may use a competition in meeting
  the minimum-contest requirements if
• Minimum number of student-athletes.
• Participating on one or more teams.
• At one or more sites.
• On behalf of the institution on the same day.
• Equals or exceeds the minimum number of
  participants per Bylaw 20.11.3.5.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.5
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Contests in Two Seasons

• An institution sponsors the same sport in two
  different seasons.
• It may count contests in both seasons provided
• Regular varsity competition is sponsored in both
  seasons and
• Is listed on the institution's official schedule.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.6
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Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field

• Sponsoring both indoor and outdoor track and
  field, requires
• Participation in a total of at least 11 indoor
  and outdoor meets.
• Including at least three indoor and three outdoor
  meets.

Bylaw 20.11.3.5.8
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Waivers

• Minimum contests and participants
  (20.11.3.5.9.1).
• Minimum contests (20.11.3.5.9.2).
• Waivers of sports sponsorship.
• Male-female enrollment ratio waiver
  (20.11.3.6.1).
• Single-gender institution transitioning to
  coeducational institution (20.11.3.6.2).
• Three-season sport waiver (20.11.3.6.3).

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Scenario

• Sport Cross Country.
• Ten dates of competition scheduled.
• Two dates get rained out (rescheduling
  unsuccessful) , resulting in...
• Eight competition dates completed -- all single
  contests.
• Additionally, the final four dates of completed
  competition was with a roster of four (one runner
  quit the team with four competitions remaining).

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• Countable Contests

NCAA BYLAW 17.02
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Countable Contest

• Any game, match, exhibition, scrimmage or joint
  practice session with another institution or an
  outside team.
• Exemptions(i.e. Conference championship,
  season-ending tournament or foreign team in U.S.)
  

Bylaw 17.02.3
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Countable Contest - Individual

• Any contest in which the student-athlete competes
  while representing the member institution.
• Individually or as a member of the varsity,
  sub-varsity or freshman team.
• Unless an exemption exists.

Bylaw 17.02.4
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Date of Competition - Institutional

• A single date on which the institution's team
  engages in competition against an outside team.
• Unless a specific exemption for a particular date
  of competition exists.

Bylaw 17.02.6
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Date of Competition - Individual

• Any date on which a student-athlete competes
  while representing the institution individually
  or as a member of the varsity, sub-varsity or
  freshman team.
• Unless a specific exemption for a particular date
  of competition exists.

Bylaw 17.02.7
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Example

• Seven inning baseball game (No double-header
  involved).
• Not considered completed contest per baseball
  playing rules.
• Sport Sponsorship (Bylaw 20) NO
• Championships (Bylaw 31) NO
• Maximum Limitation (Bylaw 17) YES

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Example

• Conference Championship.
• Annual Exemption.
• Sport Sponsorship (Bylaw 20) YES
• Championships (Bylaw 31) YES
• Maximum Limitation (Bylaw 17) NO

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Championships Selection

• BYLAW 31.3.3

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Countable Competition

• Team-championship selection
• Competition against varsity intercollegiate
  teams of four-year, degree-granting institutions
  that,
• Conduct a majority of their competition against
  varsity intercollegiate teams of,
• United States four-year, degree-granting
  institutions.

Bylaw 31.3.3.1
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Countable Competition

• Excluded contests
• Service teams.
• Professional teams.
• Semiprofessional teams.
• Amateur teams.
• Two-year colleges.
• Club teams.

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Team Sport -- Championship Selection

• Fifty-Percent Requirement.
• At least 50 percent of scheduled competition
  against in-region opponents.

Bylaw 31.3.3.2.1
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Team Sport -- Championship Selection

• Countable in-region competition.
• Teams played are located in the same established
  sport region or geographical region (NCAA
  Constitution 4.13.1.1), or
• Within a 200-mile radius of each other, or
• Are members of the same conference.

Bylaw 31.3.3.2.2
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Scenario

• Baseball in New England.
• Thirty contests are scheduled.
• Ten games rained out.
• Make ups impossible.
• The team wins their conference championship and
  receives the conference's automatic qualification.

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Putting the Pieces Together
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Team Sports
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Team Sports
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Individual Sports
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Individual Sports
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Questions?