Texas Tech University Athletics
Anthony Lyons To Represent Big 12 At Upcoming NCAA Convention
January 08, 2015 | General
The Big 12 Conference has announced that Anthony Lyons will be one of three student-athletes to represent the league at the upcoming NCAA Convention in Washington. Lyons, a sophomore baseball student-athlete from Arlington, will play a key role in this historic NCAA Convention as the High Visibility Conferences (Big 12, ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC) vote on measures aimed at improving student-athlete well being.
Jan. 8, 2015
The Big 12 Conference has announced that Anthony Lyons will be one of three student-athletes to represent the league at the upcoming NCAA Convention in Washington.
Lyons, a sophomore baseball student-athlete from Arlington, will play a key role in this historic NCAA Convention as the High Visibility Conferences (Big 12, ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC) vote on measures aimed at improving student-athlete well being.
"Anthony is a wonderful choice to represent not only the Big 12 Conference, but also Texas Tech University at the NCAA Convention," Texas Tech President Dr. Duane Nellis said. "He is an outstanding student and an even better person. Anthony's daily example is reflective of the student-athletes we have at Texas Tech."
Lyons played in 33 games last season as a freshman on the baseball team and helped lead the squad to the school's first NCAA College World Series. Aside from baseball, Lyons is an executive cabinet member of the Texas Tech Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
"It is a tremendous honor to have a Texas Tech student-athlete represent the Big 12 Conference at this very important NCAA Convention," Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt said. "This is a historic time in the history of collegiate athletics and I think Anthony will do a phenomenal job representing our student-athletes and those of other Big 12 institutions."
The current NCAA Division I governance structure, adopted in August 2014, provides autonomy to the High Visibility Conferences to adopt rules in a set of specific areas and ensures that student-athletes have the ability to vote in the decision-making process. Autonomous legislation is designed to allow permissive use of resources or to otherwise enhance the well-being of student-athletes by any member, to advance the educational or athletics-related needs of student-athletes.
Under the autonomy process, each institution in those five conferences will have one (1) vote and there will be three (3) student-athlete representatives per conference that also will each have one (1) vote (15 student-athlete votes total). The student-athlete representatives will work alongside university chancellors and presidents, athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletics representatives and athletics administrators during the autonomy discussion and business sessions. Joining Lyons as Big 12 student-athlete representatives at the convention will be Ty Darlington (Football, University of Oklahoma) and Maddie Stein (Softball, University of Kansas).
The NCAA Convention will be held Jan. 14-18 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington.
