Talk:National Collegiate Wrestling Association
Latest comment: 1 year ago by MADBuc49 in topic Club association or varsity association?
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Club association or varsity association?
editAccording to the article, it consists of former NCAA schools in wrestling as well as aspiring NCAA schools in wrestling. So, since it operates similarly to NCAA, just with a different name, organization, and competition program, does it count as a club association or a varsity association, or perhaps a hybrid of both?Epitome of Creativity (talk) 09:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- It’s a hybrid and differs from place to place, organization to organization.
- For the schools that already have a varsity wrestling team, the NCWA automatically classifies them as a club (and currently in their Division II). Those NCWA teams will always be labeled a club.
- For the teams funded by their school’s athletic department, they are varsity status.
- For the teams who have to seek funds outside of athletics (ex: student government), this has had different people and entities believe different things. “Varsity” means the principal team representing a school - so by default they would be the school’s varsity team since there is no other team representing the school. With that said, a number of people don’t understand the definition or refuse to classify teams as “varsity” because they’re not directly funded by athletics. MADBuc49 (talk) 03:15, 12 March 2023 (UTC)