St. Joseph Post
NCAA.org
The Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee elected new leadership during its virtual NCAA Convention meeting last week.
Missouri Western soccer player Mackenzie O’Neill was elected as chair for a one-year term.
O’Neill has served as the MIAA Conference representative on Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee since 2019, and will end her three-year term at the end of the 2022 NCAA Convention.
In 2020, O’Neill served as vice chair and a member of the Division II Legislation Committee that, among other work, developed the division’s proposal on name, image and likeness changes.
O’Neill will be joined on the Division II SAAC Executive Board by three others. John Michael Etheridge, a baseball player at Kentucky State, was elected vice chair. Southern New Hampshire’s Kate Pigsley (field hockey) was reelected as the committee’s internal operations coordinator and Purdue Northwest’s Ismael Contreras (men’s soccer) will serve as the external communications coordinator.
“I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve in this leadership role for such a distinguished group of student-athletes across Division II,” O’Neill said in a release. “I have full faith in this newly elected DII SAAC Executive Board and am excited for the work ahead of us this year as national SAAC.”