PHOENIX, Arizona, April 18. IN a release sent out yesterday by Phil Whitten, the Executive Director of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), the organization claimed that the NCAA's Management Council (MANCO) had reversed its previous interpretation of Bylaw 13.11.1.2 as applied to individual sports. Meanwhile, NCAA Director of Championships Wayne Burrow responded to the CSCAA release.<\/p>\n
"New or pending legislation having an effect on swimming and diving is always discussed (Divisions I, II, and III as a group and in breakout sessions) every year at the NCAA committee's annual summer meeting," Burrow said when asked about Whitten's premature release. "This new development will definitely be on our agenda and we will work with the coaching community to ensure that everybody understands the applicable legislation".<\/p>\n
In the release, Whitten stated that he was certain the Council had voted to overturn the Dec. 12 interpretation of the Bylaw and go back to the previous interpretation from the NCAA.<\/p>\n
"Under that interpretation, college student-athletes may compete directly against high school prospective student-athletes (PSAs) so long as there is either no team scoring or college teams are scored separately. The ruling will apply to all individual sports." Whitten stated in his release.<\/p>\n
Whitten voiced his pleasure at the ability of the CSCAA to influence the NCAA process.<\/p>\n
"I am delighted with the MANCO vote," Whitten said. "The credit belongs to the two dozen or so coaches and compliance officers who volunteered to lobby MANCO members at their institutions or whom they knew, and explain to them, using Talking Points that came out of the coaches meetings at the NCAA Division I Championships, why the LRIC interpretation would be a disaster for both swimming and diving, not to mention the other individual sports."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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