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NCAA Adopts Policy for Including Transgender Athletes
by Title IX Blog
posted September 14, 2011 at 1:48am

The NCAA has approved a policy to govern athletics participation by transgender athletes who have transitioned to another sex. The new rule, which takes immediate effect, allows a transgender athlete who has transitioned from male to female to participat...more

Report: College athletes with scholarships live in poverty
by HoopFeed.com
posted September 13, 2011 at 5:19pm

A report from the National College Players Association called “The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport” examines the costs of student-athlete expenses with the salaries of coaches and athletic administrators. The NCPA and Drexel University Dep...more

Super Stanford Sports Day Recapped!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 11, 2011 at 3:17pm

C and R just had the most enjoyable Friday night at Stanford that didn’t involve women’s basketball. What we did see was the Stanford Women’s Volleyball team beat four-time defending champs Penn State and the Stanford Women’s Soccer Team beat defe...more

Franklin Pierce adds sports
by Title IX Blog
posted September 8, 2011 at 7:16pm

Knowing the state of the economy, the fiscal state of higher education, and--having attended school in New Hampshire--the fiscal issues faced by NH schools, we were a little surprised to read that Franklin Pierce University has announced it is adding seve...more

Weekly Big Ten Women’s Track & FIeld and Cross-Country Report
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 8, 2011 at 12:12am

With the start of the new college year, I thought it was high time that someone promote track and cross country in the Big Ten Conference. Rankings Big Ten teams in the USTFCCCA’s August 30 preseason poll are as follows. 13. Michigan 18. (tie) Penn ...more

Super Stanford Women’s Sports Day!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 8, 2011 at 12:10am

Well, Stanford Women’s Basketball has not started yet but there are other women’s sports we can watch, and this Friday, September 9th there is a perfect storm of Stanford Sports on the Farm. The Stanford Women’s Volleyball team is taking on defendin...more

Keep an eye on Vermont women's hockey…In two years
by The First Line
posted September 6, 2011 at 6:18pm

The Catamounts are bringing in nine freshmen this season, including U.S. U-18 fixture Amanda Pelkey and Mississauga defender/Canadian U-18 Gina Repaci. The balance of power in Hockey East could shift even farther from the old stalwarts by the time these...more

Preserving 'amateur' nature of high school sports
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 6, 2011 at 12:54pm

High school sports could slowly be creeping toward mirroring the collegiate levels and that would be a bad sign for “amateur” teen athletes.The University of Texas has started its own sports network and it tried – unsuccessfully -- to gain permissio...more

Texas A&M; officially announces intentions to leave Big 12
by Swish Appeal
posted September 1, 2011 at 1:08am

Texas A&M;Officially Announces Intentions to Leave Big 12 Texas A&M;has officially announced its intentions to find a new conference home, leaving the Big 12 effective June 30, 2012 for places yet unknown. One of the best women's basketball conferences...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – SEC – “You’re Not Famous Any More”
by All White Kit
posted August 30, 2011 at 11:52am

Mountain In The Middle - Florida's Holly King Figures To Dominate In Midfield Again Way, way back when I wrote something in the vein of “the SEC isn’t relevant nationally any more,” I perhaps envisioned that the teams around the league would be...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Conference USA – Black & Blue
by All White Kit
posted August 26, 2011 at 2:19am

Eyes On The Prize - UCF's Senior Keeper Aline Reis Will Be Looking to Lead Her Team To Another League Title in 2011 What was once one of the nation’s most blessedly unpredictable leagues has now taken on an air of inevitable familiarity after a rel...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Ivy – Tales From The Ancient Eight
by All White Kit
posted August 23, 2011 at 1:26am

New Harvard Heroine - Crimson Striker Melanie Baskind Looks Like Harvard's New Top Scoring Option If you’re a fan of the Ivy League, you could probably approach the last few seasons with a glass half full approach or a glass half empty approach. O...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Colonial – Cutthroat Island
by All White Kit
posted August 19, 2011 at 3:30pm

Lead Gun - Georgia State's Sarah Bennett Will Be Aiming To Bring A Title Back To Panthersville in 2011 That long sigh of relief you may have heard from CAA country probably came from a set of coaches who could breathe a little easier with some of the...more

Big Ten responds to rumors of further expansion
by HoopFeed.com
posted August 19, 2011 at 3:16pm

The Big Ten conference released the following statement today regarding rumors about the conference expanding beyond its current 12 teams: In response to a number of recent media inquiries received by several Big Ten Presidents and Chancellors regarding ...more

NACWAA to Collaborate With NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted August 16, 2011 at 1:36am

NACWAA has had recent conversations with several members of the NCAA staff and leadership regarding plans for overall modifications and improvements in the Division I Athletics Certification process. Currently there is a moratorium on any member institu...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Mountain West – Power Vacuum?
by All White Kit
posted August 15, 2011 at 5:06pm

Lead Lobo - New Mexico Keeper Kelli Cornell Should Again Be One Of The Safest Pair of Hands In The West It’s an exciting time for the eight members of the Mountain West who’ve spent much of the last decade getting beaten up by BYU, who turned the...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Missouri Valley – Birds and Bears
by All White Kit
posted August 12, 2011 at 1:19am

Flying High - Creighton Forward Brittney Neumann Could Fire The Bluejays to Another Title Can anybody stop the tide of blue that swept over the Missouri Valley Conference last season? The all-conquering Bluejays side from Creighton did well to blow ...more

NCAA Inclusion Summit to Address Challenges, Champions and Collaborative Strategies
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted August 10, 2011 at 12:58am

Join University Presidents, Chief Diversity Officers, advocacy groups, senior athletics administrators, student-athletes and Conference Commissioners as they engage in a deliberate dialogue to identify measurable action-oriented outcomes and strategies...more

2011 NCAA Soccer – AWK’s Preseason All-America Team
by All White Kit
posted August 9, 2011 at 1:14am

2011 AWK NCAA Preseason All-America Team A few things: -I wanted to put together a team that would at the least be semi-functional in real life (Read: No 2-3-5s) and settled on a 4-2-3-1 which could easily turn into a 4-3-3 if you please. All in al...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Catch A Fallen Star – 11 (+3) Transfers To Talk About
by All White Kit
posted August 8, 2011 at 2:41pm

UC Irvine's Courtney "CoCo" Goodson - Transfer Success Story Sometimes in the world of college soccer, things just don’t work out. With the recruiting process prompting younger and younger players to make verbal commitments, it should hardly be a ...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Sun Belt – Parting of The Ways
by All White Kit
posted August 8, 2011 at 1:27am

Denver Sharpshooter Kaitlin Bast - Aiming for More Trophies in 2011 The 2011 Sun Belt season effectively represents the end of an era in the league, as Denver prepares to sign off to head for the more lucrative clime of the WAC beginning next season....more

Big 12 Releases 2011-12 Conference Schedule
by Swish Appeal
posted August 2, 2011 at 5:35pm

Big 12 Releases 2011-12 Conference Schedule The Big 12 (minus 2) released the latest women's basketball conference schedule today. The changes include a double round robin format, where each team in the conference will face off twice in the regular seas...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Ohio Valley – Ever Changing Tides
by All White Kit
posted July 25, 2011 at 1:38am

Colombian Tatiana Ariza Will Once Again Shine Brightly For Austin Peay This Year Though Morehead State completed a dominating 2010 campaign that saw them finish as the first team to do the league and conference tournament double since 2007, the Eagle...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – America East – Against All Odds (And All Terriers Too)
by All White Kit
posted July 24, 2011 at 12:36pm

Boston University's Jessica Luscinski & Kylie Strom - Two Reasons The Terriers Should Be On Top Again Last season’s America East season was the equivalent of a small group of ants trying to bring down a woolly mammoth. Champions Boston University ...more

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