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The

Report on

Intercollegiate

Athletics at the

College of Southern

Nevada

NSHE Board of Regents 2014

By L. Dexter Irvin Director of IntercollegiateAthletics and Recreation

(BOARD OF REGENTS 09/04/14 & 09/05/14) Ref. BOR-35b, Page 1 of 10

College of Southern Nevada-Report on Intercollegiate Athletics 2014

Executive Summary

Intercollegiate athletic programs at the College of Southern Nevada are a vibrant and stimulating

contributor to the educational mission of the institution.

The community of Henderson and Las Vegas are both aware and supportive of Coyote athletics, as

evidenced in the increase in attendance at Coyote events, increased sport fundraising and corporate

support. However the community is not yet fully engaged in the overall mission and operation of

athletics. As demonstrated by lack of faculty/staff/administrative game attendance and booster club

membership, there is also a lack of established institutional buy-in for athletics in general. Programs

will be instituted in the fall of 2014 to address these issues.

The NJCAA is not only the right place for CSN Athletics but realistically the only option. The Scenic West

Conference is a small but vibrant conference and is a good option for Coyote Athletics. With the

departure of the College of North Idaho from the league, review of program options for CSN is

important for the conference.

Academic success of student-athletes continues to mirror, or exceed in most situations, overall

institutional outcomes. Student-athletes are going to class and graduating on time. Additional efforts to

increase retention and overall numbers of graduates should be reviewed and improved.

Coaches and administrators contribute to the overall health and safety of student-athletes. What we

lack in facilities and improvements we try to compensate for with individual attention and access to

campus and community and individual resources. The athletic staff at CSN is involved in most every

home event and coaches have more responsibilities than just coaching their teams. Many coaches have

facility or game management responsibilities, and others assist with academic advising, and additional

assignments to help our students will be forthcoming as we evolve.

The foundations for NJCAA athletics which “provides growth opportunities through academic

achievement, learning in high-level athletic competition and development of positive societal attitudes

in service to community,” are alive and well at CSN Athletics.

A borrowed mantra of learning, balance, sportsmanship, service, resourcefulness and passion, are

applied on a daily basis by our students and our staff. As challenges associated with conference growth,

geography and funding models continue, the ability to maintain balance and passion will be susceptible

to the reality of our structural issues and the limitations of our resources.



1. Overview of CSN Coyote Athletics

MISSION STATEMENT

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics supports the academic mission of the College of Southern Nevada

while fostering connections with the greater Las Vegas community and beyond. It does so by providing

men and women the opportunity to pursue a quality education while building character and developing

leadership, teamwork and other lifelong skills.

GUIDING VALUES

In support of our mission, the Office of Intercollegiate Athletics is guided by the following values:

1. Excellence – All student-athletes, administrators, coaches, staff and volunteers are expected to

hold themselves to high standards of integrity and performance on-and-off the field, to ethical

behavior, and to sportsman-like conduct, as well as to understand that winning is not the same

thing as excellence.

2. Diversity – CSN is uniquely positioned to provide higher education access opportunities to

students from the State of Nevada, Las Vegas and beyond and is especially sensitive to ensuring

that men and women have equitable access to athletic participation opportunities; further, the

diversity of our student-athletes will be leveraged purposely to enhance the student educational

experience.

3. Honor – We encourage a strong work ethic among our coaches, staff and student-athletes, and

emphasize the importance of respecting self and others, taking personal responsibility for one’s

actions, and actively demonstrating a strong coyote spirit at all times to colleagues, teammates,

students, community members and fans.

4. Resourcefulness – The investment of resources from the College, from the State and from our

donors and supporters will be cultivated responsibly and managed carefully with an eye to

sustaining a long-term future for our athletic programs and maximizing participation for as many

students as possible. In addition, resources will be used to minimize institutional liability and

promote student health and safety to the best of our ability.



OFFICE OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS AND RECREATION VISION STATEMENT

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation vision is to model excellence as a NSHE collegiate

program, as well as, a National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Program.

Thus, the Athletic Office has adopted five core values to guide decisions and behaviors in fulfilling its

mission and vision: 1) a confident and humble pride, 2) integrity in words and deeds, 3) sharing of our

success with ALL stakeholders, 4) loyalty built on honest and trusting relationships, and 5) investing in

humanity through our student athletes, employees, and our community.

GOALS OF THE OFFICE OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

2012-16 College of Southern Nevada

• Recruit every eligible student-athlete from the greater Las Vegas and southern Nevada that can

play at this level or above.

• 100% graduation of student-athletes that stay in our program.

• Build measurable campus & community Coyote “Spirit”.

• Develop and expand recognizable branding of Coyote intercollegiate athletics and the College.

• Be fully NJCAA compliant each year.

• Develop and maintain fiscal responsibility and accountability by all sports.

• Strive to win every contest.

• Development of a single Booster Club that supports all sports and is NJCAA compliant.

• Provide departmental funding opportunities through corporate sponsorships, booster

scholarships, increased college and student funding initiatives.

• Develop and maintain athletic facilities that demonstrate our commitment to excellence, to the

College and the community, and are in compliance with Title IX.

• Continue to provide, and seek out, equitable sport opportunities for students and student-

athletes from Southern Nevada.

• Develop five year plan for athletics.

• Develop Operational handbook for department

• Refine Gender Equity Plan



2. NJCAA Compliance at the College of Southern Nevada

a. The College of Southern Nevada reported no National Junior College Athletic Association

primary or secondary violations for the 2013-14 school year.

b. There are no current NJCAA or conference investigations underway.

c. Title IX Compliance

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation at the College of Southern Nevada is determined

to be in compliance with Title IX regulations as effectively as possible. In our efforts to be compliant

there are several areas in our purview that must be addressed. These efforts will require renewed and

possibly new cooperation, between academics and athletics, as well as reaching out to other areas of

the institution in order to expand our potential for success.

Recognizing the need to address potential issues, we also recognize the following as areas of strength:

Team’s budgets are allocated amongst all programs equitably.

With the addition of the Coyote Club in 2014-15, athletics is taking a proactive step to monitor

outside funding allocations. The Athletic Director will monitor the use of these funds and ensure

men and women student-athletes are provided services.

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics is monitoring equity by providing similar benefits and

opportunities amongst all student-athletes. The process of addressing inequities is an ongoing

exercise. For this, we utilize the following standards of measurements:

a. An institution must demonstrate a history and continuing practice of program expansion for the

underrepresented sex.

b. The policies and analyses for each of the athletic programs components are analyzed for Title IX

compliance.

c. Equivalent percentages of female and male student-athletes are provided equivalent quality and

quantities of benefits and services (NCAA “Title IX Basics”).

d. One identified issue is the shortage of female coaches at the College of Southern Nevada; another is

the lack of equitable game/practice accommodations for women’s softball program.



Several general observations are useful here about recent activities and new steps that we plan:

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics routinely monitors squad sizes for men and women. This helps

us meet goals for participation by the women’s programs.

Build softball locker rooms and clubhouse immediately.

Develop and build gender neutral training room immediately.

A new full-time head coach position for women’s softball will be submitted for approval in 2015-16.

We will continue to monitor participation rates using the data that was included in this Gender

Equity report.

Any proposals of athletic recreational expansion will include both women’s and men’s programs

with comparable sports, and women’s programs in selected programs.

We will continue to monitor the NJCAA scholarships and see that they are distributed comparably

amongst the sports offered at the College.

We will continue to monitor equity in coaches’ positions and make sure that qualified women are

given the same opportunity to apply for positions.

Facilitate new practice and game facilities for women’s softball program by 2016.

We will continue to review staff positions for additional support to ensure that support is provided

equitably to women’s and men’s teams and to the participating student-athletes.

Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will be formulated and they will begin to survey all

team captains to evaluate what the perceived inequities at the College of Southern Nevada.

We will continue to review all outside funds to make sure they are utilized equally or comparably for

the teams during the course of the year.

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation will develop a policy and procedure for

elevating a club sport to varsity sport.

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation will develop a policy and procedure for how it

will evaluate the high school, club/intramurals, and community survey results to determine the level

of interest from the underrepresented sex.

The Intercollegiate Athletic Committee will develop a policy and procedure for distribution and

evaluation of the survey results.

Sharing resources within the institution and community, restructuring of potential and current positions,

determining possible interest in coaching by faculty and staff, are necessary. Remodeling ourselves to a



more traditional small college model of shared responsibility and accountability will assist us in our

endeavors.

Addressing potential inequities are measured by the following Title IX standards:

(Prong I) Participation opportunities are proportionate to enrollment at an institution. For example,

60% of enrollment is female and 60% of athletic participants are female; therefore, an institution

meets proportionately.

(Prong II) An institution demonstrates a history and continuing practice of program expansion for

the underrepresented sex. For example, an institution added women’s ice hockey within the last five

years to increase participation by 50 female athletes. This means an institution meets expansion.

(Prong III) Effectively showing that the accommodations of athletics interests and abilities for

underrepresented sex are being met. For example, the underrepresented sex at an institution is

women. The institution reviewed a strong club program such as women’s sand volleyball. This led

the institution to add women’s sand volleyball as an intercollegiate sport the following year. Thus an

institution meets accommodation and interest.

The policies and analyses for each of the program components areas as demonstrated in section 3

are analyzed for Title IX compliance.

Equivalent percentages of female and male student-athletes are provided equivalent quality and

quantities of benefits and services.

-NCAA “Title IX Basics”-

(Bonnette, Valerie M. "Organization of the Manual." Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics: How It All

Works--In Plain English. United States: Valerie McMurtrie Bonnette, 2004. XI.



3. CSN Coyote Academic Performance

Overall Student-Athlete GPA’s and Comparison with Non-Athlete Full Time Degree-Seekers

Based upon information provided by the office of Institutional Research it appears that student athlete

GPA’s compare favorably with the non-student athlete degree seekers at CSN. Based upon the data a

more concerted effort should be made to increase the academic success of student athletes during their

sport seasons.

Sport-By-Sport GPA Comparison

A comparison of the GPA of student-athletes shows considerable variation across the various sports

teams. The data can be summarized as follows:

1. Our women’s team had higher overall mean GPA than men’s team. Women’s softball mean

GPA for 2013-14 was 2.83, and baseball mean GPA for 2013-14 was 2.62

2. Baseball had 12 students over 3.0 and women’s softball had 12 students over 3.0 cumulative

GPA for 2013-14

3. Baseball had 5 students below 2.0 and women’s softball had 1 student below 2.0 cumulative

GPA for 2013-14.

4. Baseball had 6 students graduate in 2013-14 and women’s softball had 5 students graduate in

2014.

Headcount

Average Semester Units Attempted

Non-Weighted Average GPA

Weighted Average GPA

Average Cumulative Units Earned

Non-Weighted Cumulative GPA

Weighted Cumulative GPA

Athletes 54 15 2.982 3.041 24 2.872 2.919

Non-Athlete Full-time Degree-seekers 7318 13 2.772 2.784 33 2.853 2.948

Athletes 49 14 2.490 2.491 37 2.805 2.820

Non-Athlete Full-time Degree-seekers 5599 13 2.672 2.687 42 2.855 2.929

Fall 2013

Spring 2014



4. Coyote Competitiveness

2014 Baseball

Current Record Overall Pct. Conference Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral

32-22 .593 18-14 .562 L1 15-11 14-8 3-3

The CSN Coyote Baseball team finished the season third in NJCAA Region 18 behind Salt Lake

Community College and Western Nevada College.

C Scott Tomassetti & Infielder Tyler Brown join Grant Heyman the SWAC conference player of the years,

as CSN 2014 Draft Selections in MLB Draft

RS-Soph. catcher Scott Tomassetti (Las Vegas, NV - Siera Vista HS) and frosh infielder Tyler Brown

(Henderson, NV -Coronado HS) were both drafted over the weekend in the MLB Draft. Tomassetti was

drafted in Round 34 to the Philadelphia Phillies and Brown in the 40th round to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

"We are very proud of Grant Heyman, Scott Tomassetti, and Tyler Brown who were all drafted in the

Major League Baseball Draft this weekend," said CSN Head Coach Nick Garritano. "Scott had a great

finish to the season in the SWAC tournament. He battled a broken hand for half of the season and came

back much earlier than expected to make a huge contribution to our club".Tomassetti hit .299 starting

25 games at catcher for the Coyotes. With 1 HR and 18 RBI, 3 doubles, second on the team with 172

putouts."Tyler had a very good year for us this past season and was named a First team SWAC infielder.

Tyler was a huge stolen base threat and a catalyst for our offense," said Garritano.Brown hit .349

(second on the team to Hymen's .377) and Brown played in 52 games, 61 hits, 31-36 SBs, 49 runs scored,

1 HR, 31 RBI.



2014 SOFTBALL

Current Record Overall Pct. Conference Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral

40-20 .667 31-17 .646 L1 20-5 10-10 10-5

The CSN Coyote Softball team finished the season third in NJCAA Region 18 behind Salt Lake Community

College and the College of Southern Idaho. The Coyotes had many “first” during the year including a

national ranking as high as number three in the NJCAA national poll.

Coyotes' CF Ariel Frantz and SS Mikela Manewa were named to the NJCAA All-American second team.

CSN Coach Callen Perreira nears his 700th career win and earned his 100th career win at CSN earlier this

year.

Tiani Hensley will be taking the field this upcoming softball season for the Utah Valley Wolverines, after spending her last two seasons at the College of Southern Nevada. She finished the season with a .353 batting average, 12 home runs, and 60 RBI's. Hensley started 60 games for CSN and had 14 doubles, two triples and a .647 slugging percentage.

Mikela Manewa spent the last two seasons at the College of Southern Nevada earning First Team All-

Region and Second Team All-American honors. In the 2014 campaign she finished with a .471 batting

average, 20 home runs, 32 stolen bases, scoring 68 runs, and driving in 78 RBI's with a .880 slugging

percentage. She was also a star in the class in which she earned the Coyote Academic Achievement 3.0

club honors during her two years at CSN. Manewa will join a loaded Oregon State team that will feature

a top three national ranked recruiting class of 2014.


Scenic West Athletic Conference operating procedures: http://www.scenicwestsports.com/sports/2009/10/15/PPTOC.aspx?tab=policiesprocedures The NJCAA electronic handbook: http://www.njcaa.org/Online%20Handbook_Casebook/2014-15/2014-15_NJCAA_Handbook_Online_Version.pdf

http://www.scenicwestsports.com/sports/2009/10/15/PPTOC.aspx?tab=policiesprocedures

http://www.njcaa.org/Online%20Handbook_Casebook/2014-15/2014-15_NJCAA_Handbook_Online_Version.pdf

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