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#10: Wesleyan Football HC Dan DiCenzo joined In the D3FB Huddle to dive into the NESCAC roster limits, as he had to cut 14 student-athletes ahead of last weekend’s season opener. DiCenzo: “The biggest thing I have an issue with is not so much cuts. If there are cuts in sports, there are cuts. But we’re the only sport in the NESCAC that has a mandated cut by the league, so that doesn’t make sense to me. Why it doesn’t make sense is if you look at the 30 sports in the NESCAC, football is in the bottom five of roster disparity. […] If it was, ‘Hey, we’re cutting in 30 sports. It’s a financial reason. It’s a league-wide thing.’ Then that’s the rule. When it’s just football, there’s not much other way for our student-athletes to look at it than that they’re treating us differently. Again, these guys feel like, why are we the only sport? And I don’t have any good answer for them and everything I’ve heard, I have not had a good answer.” (link)
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#9: Saturday’s Coast Guard Academy-Nichols Football game set a new DIII record for points scored with 152. (link) |
#8: Ursinus Men’s Lacrosse HC Corey Shaffer will step down after the fall season. (link) |
#7: UMass Boston reopened its Clark Athletic Center after a major renovation that includes four new locker rooms, new video boards for Clark Gymnasium and Edward T. Barry Ice Rink and more. AD Jacqueline Schuman: “This project is about more than just bricks and mortar — it's about building a better future for our student-athletes and advancing the legacy of excellence of our alumni. The enhancements to the Clark Athletic Center ensure we're providing first-class resources that match the excellence of our programs.” (link)
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#6: Former RIT Track & Field student-athlete Sadie Schreiner has filed a lawsuit against SUNY Geneseo, the NCAA and the state of New York over Schreiner not being allowed to participate in the Geneseo Early Invitational this past spring. Schreiner alleges she was set to participate as an unattached runner in multiple events when Geneseo HC Christopher Popovici informed Schreiner she could not compete as a woman due to changes in NCAA rules around transgender participation, as the meet was following NCAA procedures. The NCAA, in a statement to Front Office Sports, stated: “college sports are the premier stage for women’s sports in America, and while the NCAA does not comment on pending litigation, the Association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports and ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships. […] The NCAA’s policy aligns with federal policy and permits all student-athletes to compete in the open category.” (link)
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#5: St. Benedict and St. John’s President Brian Bruess pens an op-ed in The Minnesota Star Tribune on the value of DIII athletics as a model for developing student-athletes as more than just athletes. “That is the enduring value — and the quiet magic — of Division III. It reminds us that sports can be about education, growth and joy. It demonstrates that excellence and balance are not mutually exclusive but mutually reinforcing. And it proves that athletics, when rooted in purpose, helps young people become not only better players, but better people. As Minnesotans, we are fortunate to live in a state where this model thrives. So let us keep supporting and championing our Division III student-athletes — for their leadership, their service and their commitment to the communities they represent. Because in the end, Division III athletics is about more than games. It is about shaping lives of purpose, building communities of character and reminding us all of the joy found in striving together.” (link)
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#4: MIT tops all DIII schools in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings, ranking second in the country. Other top DIIIs include Chicago (6), Johns Hopkins (T-7), Caltech (11), Carnegie Mellon (T-20), WashU (T-20) and Emory (T-24). Full rankings. (link)
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#3: Saint Vincent Men’s Basketball student-athlete Michael Iuzzolino is suing the NCAA as he seeks to compete in the 2025-26 season. Iuzzolino claims he should have another season of eligibility, voiding his 2021-22 season at Bryant (DI), after the NCAA ruled him ineligible for the upcoming season. “Mr. Iuzzolino relied on his then-coach's good-faith assurances that Mr. Iuzzolino's limited participation in the 2021-22 season at Bryant would not count against his four years of NCAA eligibility. In fact, Mr. Iuzzolino played only sparingly during that season-23 minutes across 12 games (of Bryant's 32-game slate) and did so only because he was told by his coach that this very limited participation in this second COVID-impacted season would not deprive him of a season of eligibility in the future. […] The NCAA, however, has improperly ruled Mr. Iuzzolino ineligible. It has wrongly applied its own rules in bad faith to count his brief and limited participation during the COVID-impacted 2021-22 season as a full ‘season of competition,’ despite Mr. Iuzzolino's good-faith reliance upon his then-coach's assurances to the contrary.” Of note, one of Iuzzolino’s attorneys is Winston & Strawn’s Jeffrey Kessler. (link)
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#2: Mount Saint Mary AD Shane Bell will return to Army West Point as Executive Senior Assoc. AD after nearly two years leading his alma mater. Before joining MSMC, Bell served as Assoc. AD for for Event Operations, Facilities & Capital Projects in West Point. (link)
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#1: Pitt-Greensburg names Carlow AD Lou Zadecky as its new AD. President Robert Gregerson: “Lou comes to us with a wealth of experience as a college AD, including the past few years at Carlow University, which, like Pitt-Greensburg, is a member of the NCAA Division III Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Lou is from Western Pennsylvania and has worked in the region for his entire career. His deep knowledge of our area will be a great benefit to our coaches and athletes.” (link, link)
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