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Cetys University is making a bid to become the first Mexican university in the NCAA, The New York Times reported. The private university based mainly in Mexicali and Tijuana has four men’s varsity teams – including a football team -- three women’s varsity teams and an annual athletic budget of $1.25 million. The California Collegiate Athletic Association is supporting Cetys’s bid, but the Times cites several obstacles, including the need for student athletes on opposing teams to have the required passports or visas to travel to Mexico for away games, and the political and practical issues at play in crossing the border, a process that is subject to delays.
The NCAA accepted its first international member institution, Canada's Simon Fraser University, in 2012. Last week it made permanent a pilot program that allows divisions to invite Canadian or Mexican universities to join.
