The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) consists of individuals with skills in athletics like the students, athletic personnel, the faculty student groups, researchers and other stakeholders. The NCAA has various divisions with various students and athletes with different levels of capabilities. The divisions have special considerations for the students in order to enhance the students’ performance on athletic activities. The NCAA divisions include the Division 1, Division and Division 3. In most cases, the D1 has the prominent collegiate athletic skills and powers. Division 1 has robust budgets that cater for the athletic students’ needs. The division also has sophisticated facilities that are large and efficient in ensuring training of the athletic students. The division also has scholarship programs for the athletes and offer better services as compared to the other divisions in the athletic associations (Bracken & National Collegiate Athletic, 2009).
There are many schools, colleges and associations that are often committed to offer intercollegiate athletic competition. It is known that the Division II and III also offer intercollegiate competition, but are less competent as compared to the Division I. There are considerations for the schools to be moved to division I; for instance, D-I schools must be able to attain the membership by a special conference and must satisfy the NCAA that it is financially capable to carry out all the division I programs to the students and professional athletes that it hosts (National Collegiate Athletic, 2010).
It is a recommendation for the division I schools to have field teams of men in at least seven athletic sports and seven teams for women in at least seven sporting activities...

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