Division III athletics exists. Objectively, you can\u2019t say otherwise. But this year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), in transitioning to a college athletics season held amid a pandemic, seems to have ignored D-III sports entirely. NCAA officials say that this was simply because they overlooked division three athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cD-I players are so tall that it\u2019s hard to see over them and find the D-III players,\u201d said NCAA President Mark Emmert. \u201cTake basketball, for example. Your average D-I center is 6\u20198\u201d or taller. I\u2019d have loved to be able to accommodate the D-III people in the back, but we just couldn\u2019t find them.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the University of Chicago, a D-III school, this has meant that student athletes are sidelined, stuck in a holding pattern of working out but never playing. \u201cWe welcome this new change to the D-III schedule,\u201d Rosalie Resch, UChicago\u2019s interim athletic director, told the Dealer. \u201cOur athletes are staying in shape and staying off the field, as [former university president] Robert Maynard Hutchins intended.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reactions among student athletes were decidedly mixed, with most saying they missed being able to compete against other schools. However, some saw a silver lining in the decision. \u201cI actually think this cancelled season isn\u2019t all that bad,\u201d said Maroon volleyball captain Rich Thompson. \u201cAt least we don\u2019t have to lose twenty games this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cD-I players are so tall that it\u2019s hard to see over them and find the D-III players,\u201d said NCAA President Mark Emmert. \u201cTake basketball, for example. Your average D-I center is 6\u20198\u201d or taller. I\u2019d have loved to be able to accommodate the D-III people in the back, but we just couldn\u2019t find them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-special-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}