College athletes, including at Missouri State, could soon be allowed to show their support for social justice issues.
The NCAA announced Thursday morning the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules to allow student-athletes in all sports to wear patches on their uniforms for commemorative and memorial purposes, as well as to support social justice issues.
Current rules in some sports do not allow patches, while the rule books for several other sports do not address the topic.
The patch on the front, which most sports already allowed, as authorized by the school or conference, may be a commemorative/memorial patch (names, mascots, nicknames, logos and marks) intended to celebrate or memorialize people, events or other causes.