The Olympic Games present an important opportunity to underscore the important role that American universities and colleges play in providing the facilities, coaching, training, competition and values so important to the development of highly skilled athletes in these sports. In the past, on average approximately 4 of every 5 United States. Olympic team members have been involved in intercollegiate athletes, in particular at National Collegiate Athletic Association schools. The same ratio exists for those who are called from our college campuses to take on the role of Olympic coaches. For those of us in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, it is pleasing to know that when our U.S. athletes march into the Olympic Stadium, our member colleges and coaches have helped them realize their dreams of performing on the world's biggest stage in sports.

But for the future of such American teams, too many American universities and colleges are dropping Olympics sports altogether, and dropping out of the race.

From 1988-2003, 272 men's and women's non-revenue or Olympic sports programs have been cut at NCAA member institutions, including nearly Twenty-one percent of all women's gymnastics and nearly Thirty percent of all men's wrestling teams.

As long ago as 1314 the Lord Mayor of London saw fit to issue a proclamation forbidding football within the city due to the ruckus it usually caused. Breaking of this law meant imprisonment.

You may not be a starting forward for the Philadelphia 76’ers or a wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Bucs, but if you want to stay "connected" to sports in your career, think outside the "game box."

The California Collegiate Athletic Association member colleges have been very successful in the twenty five year history of NCAA women’s athletics, having won 6 track & field, ten cross country, 8 softball,  5 volleyball and 5 basketball national championships as well as eighteen more in 4 other sports.

The game of Kayak Polo is an officially recognized sport of USA Canoe/Kayak (USACK) and efforts are underway to have the sport included in the Olympic Games.

Milligan College is a member institution of the National Association of Intercollegiate athletics and competes in the NAIA Appalachian Athletic Conference in fourteen intercollegiate sports: for men, baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, and tennis; and women's, basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball.

Baseball protective equipment that is currently on the market may prevent, reduce, or lessen the severity of more than 58,000 injuries or almost thirty six percent an estimated 162,100 hospital emergency room treated, baseball related injuries occurring to children each year.

The Ursuline College mission focuses on undergraduate and graduate education within a Catholic tradition marked by the Ursuline heritage of educating women.

The Big West Conference was formed in the mid 1960's and is one of the major National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I conferences. It is the only conference with all it's member institutions in one state.

Most athletes know what shin splints are. You are well into your training regime training for your sport, running a couple of miles to build your endurance and stamina and the pain starts. Intensely sharp pains that shoot up your leg every time your foot hits the ground – commonly known to every athlete as shin splints.

Bridgewater college was Founded in 1880 and is one of the 1st co-ed colleges in Virginia.  the institution has a student enrollment of over 1,200  from seventeen states and eleven foreign countries.

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