College Sports Insider With Jack Ford

The NCAA Office of Inclusion hosted a discussion on creating communities of belonging, where five student-athletes, from across NCAA Divisions I, II and III, shared their experiences with racial inequities and how they are using their voices and platforms to advocate for change. Today’s Social Series is devoted to giving them and their voices another platform. Introducing NCAA Director of Inclusion Niya Blair Hackworth and student-athletes - Josiah Hall from the University of Wyoming; Braly Keller from Nebraska Wesleyan University; Devin Norwood from Fayetteville State University; Mackenzie O’Neil from Missouri Western State University; and Taylor Wilson from the University of Maryland.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline are joined by Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott to discuss steps being taken to ensure a safe return to college sport.

Corbin McGuire talks with Kayla Gagnon, a swimmer and journalism major at West Virginia University, about her LGBTQ initiatives, her podcast platform, how she balances being a student and athlete, and what PRIDE month means to her.

Andy Katz is joined by Dr. Amy Wilson, NCAA Managing Director of Inclusion; Dr. Kenneth Chew, Jr., Director of Student Counseling at Indiana State University; and Jacqie McWilliams, Commissioner of the CIAA; to have a discussion focusing on racial equality and the importance of allyship.

Michelle Hosick talks with Jon Steinbrecher, chair of the Division I Working Group on Transfers and Commissioner of the Mid-American Conference, about the origins of the group, their goals and what the hopes for the transfer landscape looks like in the near future.

Andy Katz is joined by Dr. Fayneese Miller, President of Hamline University; Tori Murden McClure, President of Spalding University; and Dr. David Wilson, President of Morgan State University, to discuss how their respective campuses, administrators and students are reacting to the racial injustice and protests the country is facing.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline are joined by Dr. Stephany Coakley, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Mental Health at Temple University, and Myles Cale, a basketball player and social and behavioral sciences major at Seton Hall University, to have a discussion focused on the mental and emotional toll the pandemic and racial inequity issues are taking on student-athletes.

Greg Johnson talks with Shane Lyons, chair of the Division I Football Oversight Committee and director of athletics at West Virginia University, about the recommendations to the start of preseason football the committee is proposing.

Andy Katz is joined by NCAA Chief Operating Officer Donald Remy and Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren to discuss how college sports are not immune to the issues of social inequity and injustice and where we go from here.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline are joined by Kansas State University volleyball player Brynn Carlson and University of Kentucky football player Josh Paschal. Brynn and Josh provide their perspectives on returning to campus with COVID-19 protections and procedures in place.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline are joined by NCAA Senior Vice President of Championships Joni Comstock and University of Florida Executive Associate Athletic Director Lynda Tealer to talk through the work underway to balance health and safety while planning for NCAA championships.

Jack Ford talks with Naima Stevenson Starks, NCAA Vice President of Hearing Operations, about the new Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP) and her role as the provider of strategic coordination for the this process, which stems directly from the Commission on College Basketball’s recommendation to bring more outside voices and expertise into the NCAA’s infractions process. Examples of complex cases include alleged violations of core NCAA values, such as prioritizing academics and the well-being of student-athletes; the possibility of major penalties; or adversarial behavior. Multiple parties are able to request a case be deemed complex: school representatives, NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions members or NCAA enforcement staff. http://www.ncaa.org/independent-accountability-resolution-process https://iarpcc.org/

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline talk with ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit and NCAA DI Football Oversight Committee Chair and West Virginia Athletics Director Shane Lyons, to drill down into what needs to happen for football to return this fall.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline are joined by NCAA President Mark Emmert to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the future of college sports.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline have a discussion with Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, and Isaiah Swann, baseball player and neuroscience major at the University of Texas at Dallas and NCAA Coronavirus Advisory Panel student-athlete liaison, about the necessary core principles of resocializing in sport.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline, are joined by Dr. Claudia Reardon, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Psychiatry, and Caroline Lee, former Southeastern Louisiana soccer player, pre-med student and student-athlete representative on the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel, to discuss how the pandemic and measures to contain it have impacted our mental health, as well as provide tips and strategies for the audience to use. Lee is also a rehabilitation technician for North Oaks Medical Center’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Services Department. She helps patients regain mobility while recovering from COVID-19 and traumatic injuries. She is set to graduate in May.

Andy Katz and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline, talk with Dr. Stephanie Chu, team physician for the University of Colorado, Boulder, who is also a member of the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel, and Andrew Boselli, a football player and finance/computer science double-major at Florida State University about the impact of COVID-19 on college athletes, in particular how Boselli dealt with diagnosis and recovery from the virus.

Jack Ford talks with Felicia Martin, NCAA vice president of the Eligibility Center, about the Divisions I and II members adjusting the initial-eligibility requirements for high school students intending to play NCAA Division I or II sports in 2020-2021, whose final semesters of their senior year were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/divisions-i-and-ii-members-adjust-initial-eligibility-requirements

Andy Katz talks with NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline and Executive Associate Dean for Emory University School of Medicine at Grady Health System Dr. Carlos del Rio, who is also a member of the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel, about the role of sport, and the NCAA in particular, in continuing to help in this crisis.

Andy Katz talks with NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline and Associate Chief Medical Officer of Emory University Hospital, Dr. Colleen Kraft, who is also a member of the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel, about the reality of what is going on in the world during this pandemic and how it relates to college sports.