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The Fight Over the Future of College Sports Is Here: ‘It Needs to Implode’

Division I, much like the NCAA as a whole, is utterly fractured. A drastic change to the system may be coming. If anyone knows the issues within the NCAA, it’s Betsy Mitchell. She was an athlete at...

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NCAA: Same old problem, not new constitutional crises.

For the past six months, the NCAA membership structure has been engaged in a constitutional review. This perceived ‘constitutional crises’ arose over the past couple of years of increasing high...

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Betsy Mitchell on “Sports + Life + Balance” Podcast

The state and future of college athletics in the midst of a pandemic is part of the candid conversation Betsy has with fellow multi-Olympic medalist John Moffett on his “Sports + Life + Balance”...

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Director of APER Mitchell Appointed to NCAA Division III Management Council

Caltech Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation Betsy Mitchell has been appointed to the National Collegiate Athletic Administration Division III Management Council, the governing...

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International Caltech recruitment event speaks to high school students about women in STEM…

Betsy delivers remarks to high school students across the globe about the esteemed Caltech athletics program and women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields). Her...

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A Pre- and Post-Covid College Athletics Perspective

May  1, 2020 In college sports, what really matters is not “new,” but rather should be normal.  I am a collegiate athletic director and Olympian. Over my 30 year career in sports and...

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