Courtesy of Morgan State Athletics
BALTIMORE, Md. — Morgan State College’s Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Dena Freeman-Patton, has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Soccer Championship Collection (FCS) Oversight Committee. This prestigious position will see the HBCU administrator serve a four-year time period, concluding on June 30, 2028.
Freeman-Patton, who’s getting into her third yr at Morgan State, joins a group of directors tasked with enhancing the event of FCS soccer with a give attention to prioritizing a well-rounded student-athlete expertise, student-athletes private development, and management improvement.
The Soccer Oversight Committee will make suggestions associated to regular-season and postseason soccer, improve the student-athlete instructional expertise, promote student-athletes private development and management improvement, and work at the side of acceptable governance entities to offer options to points impacting the well being and security of soccer student-athletes.
Freeman-Patton expressed her pleasure concerning the appointment, stating, “I’m excited to be appointed to the FCS Oversight Committee and I look ahead to advancing the game of soccer.”.
The Soccer Oversight Committee supervises procedures for licensing of postseason bowls and {qualifications} and/or choice procedures for the FCS Championship. The committee critiques suggestions from the NCAA Division I Soccer Championship Committee and course of different points associated to the administration of the FCS Championship.
The committee will assume most of the duties of the previous NCAA Division I Soccer Points Committee and can present course to the NCAA Soccer Guidelines Committee concerning enjoying guidelines governing FBS and FCS soccer. The Soccer Oversight Committee is comprised of representatives from every divisional subgroup that sponsors soccer.
As a member of the Oversight Committee, Freeman-Patton can have a big voice in shaping the way forward for FCS soccer. Her appointment just isn’t solely a private honor but additionally a mirrored image of Morgan State College’s dedication to excellence in intercollegiate athletics.
ABOUT MORGANMorgan State College, an HBCU based in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified excessive analysis (R2) establishment providing greater than 126 educational packages resulting in levels from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland’s Preeminent Public City Analysis College, and the one college to have its total campus designated as a Nationwide Treasure by the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial scholar physique and seeks to make sure that the doorways of upper schooling are opened as extensive as attainable to as many as attainable. For extra details about Morgan State College, go to www.morgan.edu.
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