The National College Players Association (NCPA) is a group started by UCLA football players that serves as a powerful advocacy group for college athletes across the nation. http://www.ncpanow.org en-gb The settlement requires the NCAA to add $218 million to the Student-Athlete Opportunity Fund (SAOF) over the next 6 years. This will bring the estimated total to more than $445 million over this time period. College athletes can tap into this fund for expenses such as medical insurance premiums, parking fees, travel expenses home, and clothes. http://www.ncpanow.org/news_detail.asp?ArticleID=38 The NCPA continues to support White v. NCAA, the antitrust case against the NCAA in which the plaintiffs are challenging the NCAA's restrictions on athletics-based financial aid. http://www.ncpanow.org/news_detail.asp?ArticleID=36 Los Angeles – The National College Players Association (NCPA), a group formed by the UCLA football team in 2001 announced today that it has helped bring forth a class action lawsuit against the NCAA. http://www.ncpanow.org/news_detail.asp?ArticleID=35 (Los Angeles, CA) - The NCAA will now allow universities to provide year-round health coverage for their athletes, including non-sports related injuries and/ sickness. This victory for student-athletes comes just one month before the California Assembly is scheduled to vote on a law that would have given California universities the right to provide health coverage to their student-athletes without NCAA restrictions. Previously, the NCAA prohibited universities from covering student-athletes du http://www.ncpanow.org/news_detail.asp?ArticleID=28 The NCPA has called upon the NCAA to improve student-athletes health coverage and graduation rates and, with much pressure from California lawmakers, the NCAA has begun to respond. The NCAA has given universities the option to provide year-round health coverage for their athletes, including non-sports related injuries and/ sickness. It has also approved an incentive program that would reward universities that graduate a certain percentage of their student-athletes. http://www.ncpanow.org/news_detail.asp?ArticleID=7