The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) breaks sports into two categories: head count sports and equivalency sports. Students who are offered a scholarship to play a head count sport are typically offered a full scholarship which covers their tuition at hat university, while students who play equivalency sports might receive only a partial scholarship which covers a portion of that. At many of the smaller colleges and universities, it is common to find that the majority of the student-athletes are on partial scholarships as opposed to larger universities. Non-scholarship athletes don't receive any funds from the sport they participate in, they are simply not on an athletic scholarship. Medic (2007), examined the effects of athletic
