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Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, speaks during a panel hearing March 26, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Screenshot from committee webcast)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Mikayla Pivec said she worked more than 50 hours per week as a women\u2019s college basketball player, but earned less than $8 an hour from a $1,600 monthly stipend.<\/p>\n

The professional basketball player and former star at Oregon State University said she was testifying at Thursday\u2019s U.S. Senate panel hearing on\u00a0reshaping college athletics<\/a> because \u201cthe NCAA has failed and continues to fail to protect and respect college athletes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pivec, who worked for a food delivery service and \u201ccollected cans\u201d to make ends meet in college, played for Oregon State prior to the NCAA\u2019s 2021 guidelines that allowed student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, or NIL.<\/p>\n

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Former Oregon State basketball star Mikayla Pivec testifies at a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing. (Screenshot from committee livestream)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cNIL has helped some players, but most still earn less than $10 an hour and struggle to pay for basic necessities,\u201d she told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pivec said \u201cthe lack of protections goes way beyond money,\u201d noting that she had a foot injury that needed surgery and was denied an MRI \u201cevery single time\u201d she requested one.<\/p>\n

She is the co-founder and organizing director of the United College Athletes Association, a players\u2019 association that aims to ensure college athletes are protected, educated and fairly compensated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another \u2018unfair system\u2019<\/h4>\n

The college sports landscape continues to grapple with gender inequity in NIL deals, a patchwork of state NIL laws, booster collectives and the NCAA\u2019s controversial transfer portal, among other issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just last year, a federal judge approved the terms of a nearly\u00a0$2.8 billion antitrust settlement<\/a> that paved the way for schools to directly pay athletes.<\/p>\n

At a White House roundtable this month, President Donald Trump vowed to\u00a0imminently deliver an executive order<\/a> aimed at reshaping college sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current landscape is just replacing one unfair system for another,\u201d said Sen. Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate HELP Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cShort-term financial gain with NIL deals is overshadowing the value of an education and the value of Olympic and women\u2019s sports,\u201d the Louisiana Republican said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Employees?<\/h4>\n

The fierce debate over whether college athletes should be considered employees took center stage Thursday, drawing mixed attitudes from senators, experts, leaders and athletes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the political dynamic is that Republicans and Democrats aren\u2019t that far off from what we agree on \u2014 it\u2019s just this one small issue that gets in the way from us passing something related to unionization and how we treat students-athletes, whether we treat them as employees or not,\u201d said Sen. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A bipartisan bill\u00a0on pause in the U.S. House<\/a> looks to create a national framework for college athletes\u2019 compensation and would prohibit college athletes from being classified as employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The measure would also give broad antitrust immunity to the NCAA and college sports conferences.<\/p>\n

Sen. Chris Murphy, who has advocated for collective bargaining, said he does not want Congress \u201cin the business of micromanaging college athletics and how compensation works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just doesn\u2019t feel like our role,\u201d the Connecticut Democrat said, while blasting the bipartisan bill as an \u201ceffort to put the big schools back in a position where they can collude and wage-suppress.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trayvean Scott, vice president of Intercollegiate Athletics at Grambling State University in Louisiana, pointed to a \u201cstrain\u201d that athletic departments, and under-resourced institutions in particular, would begin to face as a consequence of student-athletes becoming employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at that, my belief is that roster spots will start to be reduced, specifically to those non-revenue sports, specifically on the men\u2019s side,\u201d he said. \u201cFor an institution at Grambling State University, where we have 15 Division I sports, that means baseball is probably going to go first.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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