Whois & Analysis for ncaa.org

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals.

It also organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and helps more than 450,000 college student-athletes who compete annually in college sports.

The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue.

80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.

This revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States.

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

The name is derived from the sport's typical venue: a stadium with an oval running track enclosing a grass field where the throwing and jumping events take place.

Track and field is categorised under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running, and race walking.

Higher education, post-secondary education, or third level education is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

Often delivered at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, conservatories, and institutes of technology, higher education is also available through certain college-level institutions, including vocational schools, trade schools, and other career colleges that award academic degrees or professional certifications.

Tertiary education at non-degree level is sometimes referred to as further education or continuing education as distinct from higher education.

An academic discipline or academic field is a branch of knowledge.

It incorporates expertise, people, projects, communities, challenges, studies, inquiry, and research areas that are strongly associated with a given scholastic subject area or college department.

For example, the branches of science are commonly referred to as the scientific disciplines, e.g. physics, mathematics, and computer science.

A student athlete (sometimes written student–athlete) is a participant in an organized competitive sport sponsored by the educational institution in which he or she is enrolled.

Student athletes must typically balance the roles of being a full-time student and a full-time athlete.

Due to educational institutions being colleges, they offer athletic scholarships in various sports.

Many student athletes are compensated with scholarships to attend these institutions but these scholarships are not mandatory to be considered a student athlete.

In the United States, athletic scholarships are largely regulated by either the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) or the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which sets minimum standards for both the individuals awarded the scholarships (in terms of GPAs and standardized test scores) and for the institutions granting them (in terms of the form and value of the scholarships and the proportion of recipients who must ultimately earn degrees).

The term student-athlete was coined in 1964 by Walter Byers, the first-ever executive director of the NCAA, to counter attempts to require universities to pay workers' compensation.