2015 NCAA Regional Rules Seminars
Meals Deregulation: Optimizing How We Feed
Student-Athletes for Recovery and Performance
Thursday, June 11, 2015
8:00 to 9:00 A.M.
Outline
1. Rationale
2. Legislation related to meals
3. Practical application
4. Discussion
Mission: To promote and
develop safety,
excellence, and wellness
in college studentathletes, and to foster
life-long physical and
mental development
Rationale for Deregulation
Permit an institution to provide meals and
snacks to all student-athletes (scholarship and
non-scholarship) at its discretion as a benefit
incidental to participation in intercollegiate
athletics.
Rationale for Deregulation
Help ensure that all student-athletes' nutritional
needs are met incidental to practice and other
activities.
Rationale for Deregulation
These additional meals and snacks are intended
to provide flexibility to meet the studentathletes' nutritional needs and to alleviate
administrative burdens related to accounting for
such benefits.
The ability to provide meals and snacks to
student-athletes as the institution deems
appropriate allows for the freedom to support
the ongoing message that sports registered
dietitians provide: “food as fuel”
DI Legislation Related to Meals
Maximum Meal Plan (Proposal No. 2013-28)
• Financial aid may include a board allowance that consists
of three meals per day or the institution's maximum
meal plan that is available to all students, whichever is
greater.
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DI Legislation Related to Meals
Meals Incidental to Practice Activities and
Noncompetitive Events and Snacks at Any Time (Proposal
No. 2013-31-A)
• Institution may provide meals to student-athletes incidental
to practice activities during the playing season and while
representing the institution in noncompetitive events.
• Institution may provide snacks to student-athletes at any
time.
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DI Legislation Related to Meals
Meals Incidental to Practice Activities and
Noncompetitive Events and Snacks at Any Time
(Proposal No. 2013-31-B)
• Institution may provide meals to student-athletes at any
time as a benefit incidental to participation.
• Institution may provide snacks to student-athletes at any
time.
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DII Legislation Related to Meals
Meals and Snacks Incidental to Participation
(Division II Proposal No. 2015-13)
• Intent: To specify that an institution may
provide meals and snacks to student-athletes
as a benefit incidental to participation in
intercollegiate athletics.
– Effective: August 1, 2015
DII Legislation Related to Meals
15.2.2.1.7 Meals and Snacks Incidental to
Participation
• The cost of meals and snacks provided as benefits
incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics
need not be deducted from a student-athlete's board
allowance. Such meals and snacks also may be received
by a student-athlete who is not receiving athletically
related financial aid as a benefit incidental to athletics
participation
DII Legislation Related to Meals
16.5.1 Housing and Meals
• (b) Preseason Practice Expenses.
– The institution may provide the cost of room and
board to student-athletes who report for preseason
practice before the start of the academic year, it being
understood that the student-athletes have been
accepted for admission to the institution at the time
such benefits are received.
DII Legislation Related to Meals
16.5.1 Housing and Meals
• (c) Meals and Snacks Incidental to Participation.
– An institution may provide meals and snacks to
student-athletes as a benefit incidental to
participation in intercollegiate athletics.
– An institution shall not provide student-athletes with
a meal or snack and cash for the same meal or snack.
DII Legislation Related to Meals
16.5.1 Housing and Meals
• (c)-(1) Cash for Missed Meal Due to Practice
Activities.
– An institution may provide to a student-athlete the
cash equivalent of a meal missed due to practice
activities only if he or she has previously paid for the
meal (either individually or through the board
element of a scholarship).
DII Legislation Related to Meals
16.5.1 Housing and Meals
• (c)-(2) Meals or Snacks in Conjunction With Competition.
– For both home and away-from-home competitions, all studentathletes are permitted to receive a pregame meal as a benefit
incidental to participation and all student-athletes are permitted to
receive a meal(s) or snack(s) [or cash in the amount equal to the cost
of a meal(s) or snack(s)] at the institution's discretion from the time
the student-athlete reports on call (at the direction of the studentathlete's coach or comparable authority) and becomes involved in
competition-related activities to the end of competition and the
release by the appropriate institutional authority, as a benefit
incidental to participation.
Nutritional Supplements
Note:
• Nutritional supplement products are not addressed
under NCAA rules in the same manner as food,
• And the regulation of them should not be confused
with deregulation of meals and snacks.
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16.5.2.g (16.5.1.h) Nutritional Supplements
• Permissible legislation proposed by PAC 10 in 1999:
– to limit use of muscle-building supplement products
– to replace calories and fluids lost through athletics participation
• Permissible supplements fall within one of four categories:
– Carb/electrolyte drinks (Gatorade, Powerade)
– Carb boosters (ensure, boost)
– Energy bars (no more than 30% calories from protein)
– Vitamins and minerals
• May not contain banned substances or impermissible ingredients.
• Fruits, nuts and bagels are not nutritional supplements.
NCAA Position on Supplements
• Athletes ingest a sufficient
amount or protein without
supplements
• Vitamins and minerals needs
can be met via eating a variety
of foods
• Concerned about lack of
regulation
– Poor labeling
– Impurities
Resource Exchange Center
• Staffed by Drug Free Sport
• Provides authoritative info on supplements,
medications and banned drugs
• 877-202-0769
• www.drugfreesport.com/rec
– Passwords: ncaa1, ncaa2, ncaa3
Practical Application
“The best approach to
fueling for performance
and health is to rely on
real food, maintaining
hydration and avoiding
substances that detract
from nutritional status
(e.g. alcohol).”
Stages of Deregulation
The New Rule
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Educational Column: NCAA Division I member institutions are reminded that beginning
August 1, 2014, an institution is permitted to provide meals and snacks to studentathletes as a benefit incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics. The
following information is designed to assist institutions with the application of the
legislation.
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Since the adoption of Proposal No. 2013-31-B, the NCAA national office has received
numerous questions from the membership regarding the application of the new
legislation. More specifically, given that the legislation provides institutions the
discretion to provide all student-athletes (scholarship and non-scholarship) with meals
and snacks incidental to participation, questions have arisen concerning the impact on
financial aid legislation and the meaning of "incidental to participation." Consistent
with the deregulatory nature of this rule change and recognizing the uniqueness of
institutional meal plans and policies, institutions and conferences have the discretion
to provide student-athletes other meals or snacks as they deem appropriate and
consistent with institutional policies and financial aid regulations. As adopted, the
legislation does not permit institutions to avoid applying the financial aid legislation.
For example, meals and snacks provided as benefits incidental to participation in
intercollegiate athletics are not intended to replace meals that would normally be
provided through a dining plan or an off-campus board stipend.
What Deregulation Isn’t
What Deregulation Is
SOMETHING
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NOTHING
Action Plan
• Put information on paper before you begin meeting with decision
makers
• Think through the following:
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WHO OWNS IT?
What would work for you?
What makes sense financially?
What are other schools doing?
What would staffing look like?
How much extra time and labor would that take?
What Makes Sense
Financially?
• Look at your costs
• What Works For You
• Starting Small
– Example:
• Chocolate milk- $0.23 per half pint
• PBJ-$0.31 per sandwich
– Add breakfast
• Example: Chocolate milk and • Consider piggy-back off your dining
hall
PBJ for
– All student-athletes
– Better pricing for bulk orders
– Football only, etc …
– Split costs on some items
– Provide snacks
• Make trade-offs
• Examples: Pretzels with peanut
– Look for products that have been
butter, trail mix
grandfathered in or items that just a
– Know the timing of your training table
couple athletes use
meal
What is the Staffing
Plan?
• A staffing plan plays an integral
role
• Example:
– Two interns will make sandwiches
and distribute with chocolate milk
daily from 7-9:30 a.m. at a specific
location
– Interns will cross names off the
roster as they grab breakfast
• Make recommendations that are
feasible for your setting
• Students want to be involved
– Enlist four extra students to
volunteer for three hours a day
– Find out if you have an
undergraduate nutrition
department
– Free labor is awesome and
administration can’t argue the
price
Present Your Plan/s
• Get all necessary parties in the same room
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Compliance
Operations
Strength and conditioning
Nutrition
Administration
• “Goldilocks Approach”
• Don’t get opinions/feedback/suggestions from coaches before you present
Key Learnings
• Planned ahead
– Knew the rule was going in effect so
we started planning in April
• Coordinated meetings
– With administrators, compliance and
myself
– Discussed what was possible:
• Budget: how much did we want to
spend
• Staffing: nutrition staff, training table
staff
• Who is included (coaches, staff as
well or just SA’s)
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DOCUMENT!
Shows initiative
Good student responsibility
Helps keep you aware of your
spending
• Helps you compare from year to year
and month to month
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Behavior Changes
Inter-Sport Interactions
Body Composition
Perceived Stamina
Self Reported Academic
Sports RD Interactions
SA Involvement
Improved Intakes Outside of Athletic
Outside of Athletic Dept
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MICHIGAN ATHLETICS PERFORMANCE
FUELING
31 Teams
937 Student-Athletes
2 Full Time Sports Dietitians
FUELING:
SODEXO Year End Report (See attached SODEXO
BREAKFAST: $670,000 per year
Grab-N-Go Breakfast Mon-Fri 7-10 AM (See
for avg daily attendance Winter 2015, %
Football Breakfast Mon-Fri @ $270,000/year
TRAINING TABLE: $1,492,000/year
Football - Lunch 5 days/week @ $180,000/year +
$512,000/year = $692,000/year
MBK + WBK + HK + MLAX + WLAX - Dinner 5
Dinner 2x/week due to late practices $800,000/year
*Doesn't include supplements (MVI, VIT D, VIT C,
season training camps, in-season pre-game meals,
season
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FUELING STATIONS (18) @ $640,000/year
($10,000/week)
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Schembechler - FOOTBALL
Crisler/PDC - MBASKETBALL; WBASKETBALL
Yost Ice Arena - HOCKEY
Weisfeld Family Gold Center - M. GOLF; W. GOLF
Varsity Tennis Center - MTENNIS; WTENNIS
Bahna Wrestling Center - WRESTLING
Donald R. Shepard Training Center - W.
GYMNASTICS
Newt Loken Training Center - M. GYMNASTICS;
CHEER
FIELD HOCKEY SOFTBALL BASEBALL
Canham Natatorium - MSW & DIV; WSW & DIV;
WP
Keen Arena - VOLLEYBALL
Indoor Track Buidling - M. TRACK/FIELD & CROSS
COUNTRY; W. TRACK/FIELD & CROSS
COUNTRY
Michigan Boathouse - ROWING
UM Football Stadium - M. LACROSSE; W.
LACROSSE
YOST GNG - M. SOCCER; W. SOCCER
Stephen M. Ross Academic Center - Center for
Leadership
PLUS other misc. expenses (equipment
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Working with a Sports
RD
• Create a program that works
efficiently and effectively for all
teams
– Sports nutrition is not just a job. It’s
a program to add to your athletic
department.
• Determine the needs of each
team
• Create a message so that
everyone speaks the same
language
– Educate athletes
• Research best products and
prices for your student-athletes
Collaborate with Strength and
Conditioning and Sports Medicine
to determine how best deregulation
can positively impact the
department
Serve as the main contact with training
table and the liaison between
Strength and Conditioning,
Administration, Sports Medicine and
the training table staff
• Breakfast club
• Weigh-in’s
• Body composition
testing
• Training table
• Fueling
station/supplements
• Medical nutrition
therapy