I am currently running for my Pac-12 university's club team but next year I plan on transferring ti a local DIII school. For the club team I have been competing against lower level DI, DII, and DIII schools. Will running on my university's club team take away a year of my eligibility?
Yes. Club participation counts against NCAA eligibility, at least at the DI level. I speak from personal experience, but you will want to connect with Compliance at your new school.
Compliance wrote:
Yes. Club participation counts against NCAA eligibility, at least at the DI level. I speak from personal experience, but you will want to connect with Compliance at your new school.
D1 and d2 this is true. I am not sure if d3 has the same rules, but would assume it does.
You should be able to run unattached without using your eligibility.
I don't think it counts as a year of eligibility but I don't think that you will be able to redshirt (I know you can't redshirt for d3 but people regularly take a year off for injury/not attire quite being on good enough shape which is basically the same thing).
attending school counts as a year of eligibility whether you are on a regular team, a club team, or nothing. If your options are nothing or the club team, best to go club team as you lose a year of eligibility either way. This holds true for NCAA D1,2,and 3 and the NAIA.
Does it make a differences if you run for a club that isn't associated with your school but runs at college meets?
Compliance wrote:
you will want to connect with Compliance at your new school.
This is your best answer. Some D-lII conferences have unique restrictions not mandated by NCAA.
I haven't kept up with current rules, but back in the day runners would take a red shirt year where they didn't run for their school's team but they did compete unattached and were able to run in their 5th year for their school.
Running for a club would be the same as that.
Here is your answer
If you go D1 which you did. Your 5 year clock starts from the day you enroll fulltime and attend class. Even if you never compete on a team from the day you start school and when you graduate 5 years later...your time ends. So it doesn't matter if you play sports or not..... any year at D1 counts as a year of eligibility.
D2 and D3 is all semesters. IF you are enrolled full time for 10 semesters you're done. If you go for 8 semesters and compete for 6 semesters. YOU will have 2 semester of eligibility left.
You're club team does not count as eligibility for D3 HOWEVER your full time student status does! If you are a freshman that is using this year to compete for your club team... you will have 4 full years of running left at d3. 10 semester minus 2 semester of not competing ... puts you at 8 full time semesters left.
When I say 10 semester that's given that 2 of those semesters are redshirted.
Hope this helped.
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