The Drake Group brings together Title IX experts and an NCAA D-I conference commissioner to discuss the new reality of the college athlete name, image, and likeness (NIL) marketplace and how it relates to the Title IX promotion, publicity, recruiting and NIL education obligations of educational institutions and the entities they control, including surrogate organizations that are acting on their behalf in the area of recruiting. The panelists discuss whether these entities can be used as subterfuge to evade the educational institution’s Title IX legal obligations and why past and continuing less favorable treatment of female athletes in areas that significantly affect individual brand building will have a profound impact on NIL opportunities for female athletes if they remain unaddressed.
Panelists: JAYMA MEYER (Facilitator and Panelist), Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Visiting Clinical Professor, Sports Law, Indiana University; GLORIA NEVAREZ, Commissioner, West Coast Conference, Member of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee and Transfer Working Group and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics; JULIE SOMMER, Attorney, former NCAA All-American swimmer at the University of Texas at Austin and USA Swimming National Team member, and member of The Drake Group Board of Directors; DONNA LOPIANO, President, The Drake Group, gender equity consultant, and former UT-Austin Women’s Athletics Director and CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation.
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