Conference Carolinas ‘Officials Appreciation’ Wins National Award
High Point, N.C.> The ‘Officials Appreciation’ of Conference Carolinas was recently awarded a grant recognition honor by the NCAA and was recognized at the DII Conference Commissioners Association’s national meeting in Tempe, Arizona. The $1500.00 grant award comes to the league from the NCAA DII Budget & Finance Committee that recognized schools and conferences for their outstanding work in improving sports environment initiatives throughout NCAA DII.
Conference Carolinas ‘Official Appreciation’ game environment initiatives occurred through the leagues Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAAC) on each campus and were held during women’s and men’s basketball games during the 2009-10 season. Continued ‘Officials Appreciation’ initiatives will continue for this season for each SAAC group as they will focus on spring sports for the upcoming 2011 season. The grant award monies that the league received will be put back into future ‘Officials Appreciation’ initiatives.
The NCAA recently released the linked and below press release highlighting these award presentations. Four DII Conferences Earn Special Recognition
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Four DII Conferences Earn Special Recognition
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Oct. 22, 2010
NCAA Release
Four Division II conferences were presented with special
recognition awards for their 2009-10 conference grant reports at a
recent meeting of the Division II Conference Commissioners
Association.
The $1,500 awards went to Conference Carolinas, the East Coast
Conference, the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference and the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.
Division II Vice President Mike Racy said that while the awards are
not large, the Division II Planning and Finance Committee wanted to
recognize conferences that developed initiatives that strongly
support the division’s strategic plan.
“We have had excellent success within Division
II,” Racy said, “and much of it has
been the result of a strong national plan that is supported on
conference and institutional levels. What’s especially good
about the conference grant program is that it provides the
membership with an opportunity to set priorities that define them
as Division II members. That’s good for the institutions, the
conferences and Division II in general.”
The recognized programs were:
* Conference Carolinas: Officials Appreciation
Night
* East Coast Conference: Experience in Community
and Character retreat (joining student-athletes from different
institutions as teammates)
* Northern Sun Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference: Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award
* Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference:
Students of Today are Referees of Tomorrow (officiating
development)
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Conference Carolinas is a NCAA Division II athletic conference made up of 11 teams from North Carolina and South Carolina. These institutions consist of: Barton College, Belmont Abbey College, Coker College, Converse College, Erskine College, Lees-McRae College, Limestone College, Mount Olive College, Pfeiffer University, Queens University of Charlotte, and St. Andrews Presbyterian College. For the upcoming 2011-12 academic year King College (Bristol, TN) and North Greenville University (Tigerville, SC) will join as full Conference Carolinas league members.
