student athletes

Public school athletic programs across Miami-Dade are struggling to keep pace with well-funded private school rivals, as shrinking enrollment, limited budgets and transfer rules reshape the high school sports landscape.

Florida's public universities can free up $22.5 million a year to compensate student-athletes. That's under an emergency rule approved Wednesday by the state board overseeing the universities. The rule comes ahead of a landmark legal settlement going into effect July 1 allowing schools to directly pay their players for the use of their name, image and likeness.

The Florida High School Athletic Association held a discussion about a potential change to the organization’s bylaws that would allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness under what is commonly known as an NIL policy.

Three months after losing blue-chip quarterback Jaden Rashada over a failed name, image and likeness deal worth nearly $14 million, the University of Florida is taking advantage of a new state law that allows colleges and coaches to facilitate NIL opportunities.

Attorneys for a Broward County transgender high-school volleyball player argued that a U.S. District judge should reject a state motion to dismiss her case.

A proposal that would give Gov. Ron DeSantis power to shape the Florida High School Athletic Association Board of Directors and allow schools to offer pre-game prayers over stadium public-address systems got backing in the Senate.

Florida's original name, image and likeness law bans colleges and universities from steering deals to athletes. State lawmakers will soon lift that ban.

A proposal that would allow colleges and universities to steer endorsement deals and compensation opportunities toward student-athletes began moving forward in the Florida House.

In a post-Roe v Wade world, the move of student athlete health information online has led to an outcry over reproductive privacy. WLRN spoke with the Palm Beach Post's Katherine Kokal, who reported on the story.

People involved in athletics say Florida is somewhat of an outlier in preventing schools from helping athletes secure deals through the name, image and likeness — or NIL — law.

As Congress looks to craft legislation governing college athletes’ ability to cash in on their names, images and likenesses, Florida’s system could come under fire because it allows universities to set their own rules on the types of companies that can sign contracts with athletes.

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