Title IX will apply to college athlete revenue share, feds say

An official for the U.S. Department of Education, the federal enforcer of gender equity in sports, said Title IX rules will apply to future revenue dollars that schools share with college athletes, but the department declined to offer guidance on how schools should distribute the money between men and women to comply with the broad language of the law.

“Schools must provide equal athletic opportunities based on sex, including with respect to benefits, opportunities, publicity, and recruitment, and must not discriminate in the provision of financial aid,” Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary for the department’s Office for Civil Rights, said in a written statement to ESPN. “In the new NIL environment, these same principles apply.”

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