I ran two or three seasons of track while in my 5 years at undergrad. I never ran in any regional or championship meets. I'm going to grad school. Can I run one more season this spring?
I ran two or three seasons of track while in my 5 years at undergrad. I never ran in any regional or championship meets. I'm going to grad school. Can I run one more season this spring?
I am guessing you have a good chance of getting another year but you may be better off calling the NCAA on their help line to obtain the correct answer.
You have 5 years to complete 4. The only way you can get another year is if you have a medical hardship (a season ending injury), but it has to be documented and signed off by a doctor. If you are female, you can get a year back for maternity as well.
Why did you run "2 or 3" years only? You seem really into what you were doing, not even knowing how many years you ran.
DickGregory wrote:
Why did you run "2 or 3" years only? You seem really into what you were doing, not even knowing how many years you ran.
because when i started running for the school, there was no track team. when the track team was eventually established, i recall them saying that we had to be a club team for a season before we could oficially be a team. And I'm not sure if that one club year counts as a year out of my eligibility.
DickGregory wrote:
You have 5 years to complete 4. The only way you can get another year is if you have a medical hardship (a season ending injury), but it has to be documented and signed off by a doctor. If you are female, you can get a year back for maternity as well.
Why did you run "2 or 3" years only? You seem really into what you were doing, not even knowing how many years you ran.
could you go into more detail about this medical hardship stuff?
What qualifies?
Ask Ryan Vail.
You do not have any eligibility left. As someone said, you have five years from the time you initially enrolled in school full time to use up your four years of eligibility. Even if there had been injuries those would have had to be documented at the time and official paperwork done during the medical red-shirt season.
For medical red-shirts you need to have competed in 20% or less of the competitions and they need to be in the first half of the season. Medical red-shirts have become more difficult to acquire. Years ago, people would run a couple of meets and then decide to red-shirt without an injury, just coming up with a case of shin splints or something. Now there is much more documentation required from the team doctors, but if there is a legitimate injury, it is not that difficult to get a medical red-shirt.
This is assuming you are at a DI school. The rules are different for DIII I know and possibly DII. I am not sure of those exact rules, but I do know you have 10 semesters of actually being enrolled in college to use up your four years, whereas in DI you have the five years, whether you were enrolled in school that entire time or not. In other words, someone could have enrolled in school, dropped out after a semester and come back 10 years later and they would still have DIII eligibility, but not DI. Hope that made sense.