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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 1817423, member: 469"] [URL="https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/strategic-objectives-adopted-di-championships?sf30960219=1"]Strategic objectives adopted for DI championships[/URL] Strategic objectives adopted for DI championships [SIZE=4][B] Long-, short-term goals to ensure growth, consistency, fairness are defined [/B][/SIZE] July 14, 2016 3:40pmGreg Johnson The Division I Competition Oversight Committee has adopted strategic objectives focused on improving Division I and National Collegiate championships while also ensuring their growth, consistency and fairness. Some of the immediate improvements that the committee recently approved for implementation in the 2016-17 academic year include: [LIST] [*]Improved awards ceremonies. [*]Gathering/meeting areas for family and friends at the final sites. [*]Requirements related to web streaming of preliminary-round competition. [/LIST] During their meeting June 27-28 in Indianapolis, committee members also outlined future goals designed to provide student-athletes with an outstanding championship experience and enable planned growth of those events. Those goals pertain to: [LIST] [*]Exploring models to maintain and enhance championships. [*]Quality of travel experience. [*]Enhanced officiating training and development programs. [*]Consistency and fairness of championship experience. [*]Championship formats and automatic qualification policies. [/LIST] The committee’s work stems from a working group it created that spent the last several months reviewing current and historical financial information, participant and conference surveys, and sport/championship benchmarks. The committee continues to support the fundamental principle of access to championships, while recognizing increasing budget concerns, fluctuations in sport sponsorship and conference realignment. [SIZE=3][B]Other items[/B][/SIZE] [LIST] [*]The Division I Competition Oversight Committee requested that a member from its group be appointed to serve on the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel to maintain communication and connectivity in the rules-making process. [*][B]Committee members also referred a concept back to the Division I Men’s Soccer Committee in hopes of garnering more information. The concept would change the playing and practice season for men’s soccer to a two-semester format, which would include a spring championship segment.[/B] [*]The committee also forwarded legislation to the Division I Council to exempt the East Lake Cup in Atlanta from the maximum dates of competition (24) of the 144-day declared playing and practice seasons for men’s and women’s golf. The televised event consists of the men’s and women’s four semifinal teams from the previous year’s Division I championships participating in one day of 18-hole stroke-play competition, followed by two days of semifinals, finals and consolation match-play competition. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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