INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Wiley Cain of the Kentucky Wesleyan College football team has been selected as a National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) member for NCAA Division II. He will also serve as the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee President as selected by the NCAA.
Cain will represent the 13 member institutions of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference with a three-year term that is effective immediately and runs through the conclusion of the January 2023 NCAA Convention.
"I am really thankful to have been selected for this position and be given the opportunity to be a representative for my peers," commented Cain. "I have the utmost respect for every student athlete because I know what it takes, and what to do in order to be where we are. I'm looking forward to working with the other representatives to continue to advance the experience of the student athlete and hopefully make some lasting positive progress."
Currently the Vice President of the Kentucky Wesleyan SAAC, the Eubank, Ky. native is heavily involved on campus. He is an active member of the Campus Ministries Mile 2 team, a Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) intern, President and founder of Harry Potter club as well as a member of the Honors College.
SAAC serves as the primary governance arm representing student-athlete interests in Division II affairs. SAAC members serve as student-athlete liaisons that monitor and discuss happenings on campuses, within conferences and at the national level.
Representatives are responsible for gathering feedback and reporting on behalf of their conference, as well as relaying important events, hot topics and educational information to both the campus and conference levels. The committee speaks of behalf of the entire Division II student-athlete body throughout the NCAA governance structure.
The committee is comprised of 28 members including representatives from each of the 23 Division II conferences, one representative of Division II independent institutions, two at-large representatives and two members of the Management Council.
Cain's predecessor is University of Findlay softball student-athlete Lauren Yacks, who completed her term as the league's third conference national representative. He is also the first male President and the first from Kentucky Wesleyan in the near eight-year history of the Great Midwest, following in the footsteps of Laura Farleman (Cedarville), Jes Hicks (Ursuline) and most recently, Yacks.
