Even though some of the national athletics organizations face different outcomes for different schools, junior colleges across the country will each have the same possibilities for the upcoming school year.
Danville Area Community College President Dr. Stephen Nacco explains the process of ratifying the plan.
“They started with the president’s advisory council. Right now the board of regents is voting on it, to ratify it, and that will be it. So, we have an unequivocal direction for athletics for community colleges.”
The NJCAA sent a brief to its member schools Thursday afternoon saying that it is recommending a majority of fall athletic competitions move to the spring semester. This would mainly affect football, which DACC does not sponsor. The only fall sport the college does offer is cross country.
Nacco told the college’s trustees yesterday that the tentative plan is to allow practices to begin in October.
Nacco also addressed recent changes in the college’s athletic department. He said Tim Bunton’s resignation as head baseball coach will allow him to dedicate all of his time to the AD’s position instead of spending much of that time on baseball matters. Nacco also said the assistant baseball coach’s position was changed to part-time due to Title IX guildlines, as DACC had more men’s full-time coaches than women’s sports did.
