Women's Collegiate Rugby as an NCAA Emerging Sport
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- February 26, 2019
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Sherling, Elizabeth
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Exercise and Sport Science
- Abstract
- This study gains perspective from current women's collegiate rugby team leaders on elevating club teams to the varsity level. USA Rugby supports the elevation initiative and has invested time and resources to the cause, yet conversion rates remain low. Using Qualtrics software, a survey was distributed to the population of women’s rugby club student-leaders to gauge interest in and awareness of the NCAA sport elevation process. The data analyzed to assess interest, awareness, perceived benefits and drawbacks of NCAA sanctioning as well as club teams’ goals and values. While a majority of respondents expressed interest in becoming a varsity program, awareness of varsity application processes was lacking. The data also indicated that teams perceive NCAA status to bring tangible benefits, but place a very high value on team dynamics, upon which varsity status may have a more detrimental effect.
- Date of publication
- spring 2014
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Osborne, Barbara
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 59
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