Only 310 American Indians were among the 70,856 college athletes in Division I who received athletic aid in the 1998-99 school year, the most recent data compiled by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Asked which Saratoga attendees stood out as potential successors, Horán picked out crossovers: a couple of track athletes, a division one basketball player.
While Brand was president, the N.C.A.A. enacted a new system for evaluating academic performance, awarding points when athletes in Division I colleges remained eligible and advanced academically, and penalizing teams that fell below standards.
Student-athletes in Division I -- where the dumb jock myth is most firmly attached -- graduate on average at a higher rate than the general student body, according to data gathered by the federal government.
In terms of the verbal, psychological, or fisticuffs between white and black 13-year-old boys, no athlete provoked division like Muhammad Ali.
Since 1952 CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as well as NAIA athletes, covering all championship sports.
Phil de Picciotto, president of the athletes and personalities division at the Octagon agency (then known as Advantage International), presented Tambrands' offer to the Women's Tennis Association at the time.
Sixty-two percent of all scholarship athletes who entered Division I colleges for the 1996-97 academic year graduated in the six-year window established by the Department of Education, a rate 3 percentage points higher than that of the overall student body, according to a report released yesterday by the N.C.A.A.
Each country is allowed to enter two athletes per weight division.
