College Athletes...

[LTb1ow]

Anyone had to take a year off your sport and or talked to the NCAA for an extension on your 5 year career?

[cdacda13]

Well, what's the reason for taking a year off?
Injury you can redshirt the year. I believe there is a difference between a "regular" redshirt and a medical redshirt.

Your best bet is to talk to an adviser or coach, they'll have a much better grasp on the NCAA rule book than most people here. (I once looked at the rule book, thing is like over 1,000 pages.)

[LTb1ow]

I swam for one year (and not even the full season) about two years ago... and then went to community college for two years... now I am being screwed by transfer credits etc, and I may be ineligible for these year... which means I could only swim one year...

I was wondering if I could have the first year wiped from my record as I never really competed...

[cdacda13]

I was wondering if I could have the first year wiped from my record as I never really competed...
(From my basic understanding of the NCAA rule book):
No, because you competed and were still on the roster and were eligible to swim during that time.
As far as your two years away from the sport, those should not count against your eligibility. So you should have 3 years left. 4 years if you redshirt this season.

[LTb1ow]

Yea, the problem is the fact that the NCAA wants me to have had done full student course loads during me two years of not swimming...which will screw me cause all my credits are not transferring (which is a whole nother sob story). So if I could say this is my first year of ever swimming I would be set to go...

Ah well, gotta call the coach tmmr.

[Crayface]

you get 4 years of a college sport unless you get a red shirt ( Medical or regular Red shirt in D2-1 schools)

[BurninrubberGT]

^^and that counts in njcaa and ncaa, im pretty sure

and they dont need to be consecutive

and you need to take 12 credits to participate in njcaa or ncaa



we actually played a team yesterday that were having problems with transfering credits and had 2 all americans that couldnt play in it