General | 1/17/2023 2:37:40 PM
The Empire 8 enjoyed a successful 2023 NCAA Convention, which took place from Jan. 11-14 in San Antonio. The league had two successful sponsored legislative proposals pass, while St. John Fisher’s Jack Mulvihill received the NCAA’s Today’s Top 10 Award.
On Wednesday, Jan. 11, Mulvihill was one of 10 outstanding senior student-athletes from the 2021-22 academic year to receive the prestigious national award. He is the second Empire 8 student-athlete to receive this award.
A native of Dewitt, NY, Mulvihill, held a spectacular 3.95 grade-point average as an inclusive adolescence education major. He was a mainstay on the Empire 8’s President’s List, having earned the prestigious honor nine times for recording a GPA of at least a 3.75. He carried over his academic excellence to his graduate studies where he earned a 4.0 during the 2021-22 academic year en route to earning College Sports Communicators (CSC) Men’s At-Large Academic All-America honors for the second straight year. He was also a 2021 USILA Scholar All-American.
Mulvihill also served as co-chair of St. John Fisher's campus Student-Athlete Advisory Committee from 2019-2021. He also served on the Empire 8 SAAC and was the conference's representative on the NCAA Division III SAAC from 2020-2022. Mulvihill was a SAAC representative on the Division III Management Council, discussing issues important to Division III student-athletes with college presidents, athletics directors and various community leaders.
On Saturday, Jan. 14, Empire 8 sponsored Proposal #3 – Mental Health Hardship Waiver and
Proposal #7 – Presidents and Management Council Composition were passed at the NCAA Division III business session.
Proposal 3 calls for the membership to create a distinct Mental Health Hardship Waiver that acknowledges the unique circumstances of mental health conditions versus physical injuries and allows the association to leverage the experts on the NCAA Mental Health Advisory Group.
For Proposal 7, each
Division III
multi-sport conference will have one representative
on either Presidents or Management
Council and that the conference's
slot on either will alternate accordingly. The proposal ensures all conferences would have representation on Presidents or Management Council at all times, greatly expanding the voice of the membership. It ensures all conferences have a representative on each committee every four years.
ABOUT THE EMPIRE 8 CONFERENCE
The members of the Empire 8 Conference are committed first and foremost to the pursuit of academic excellence and the league is regarded as an outstanding NCAA Division III conference. The membership has distinguished itself among its peer group for its quality institutions, spirited and sportsmanlike competition, outstanding services and highly ethical policies and practices. Its commitment to serve the educational needs of its student-athletes is the hallmark of the E8. For more on the Empire 8 visit
www.empire8.com.
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