Hi, I am a grad student, and when I was in undergrad I received a redshirt for the 2004 Outdoor track season. I now want to try and use my last year of eligibility instead of letting it go to waste, and I was wondering how I can confirm that I do in fact have a season of eligibility left? Who would I contact? I want to email the coach at my new school to express my interest, but I dont want to waste his time if I didn't have eligibility for some unknown reason.
You can begin by trying to contact the compliance office at your old school. They will have a record of season's used. Otherwise, you can approach the coach and/or compliance person at your new school, which will then seek confirmation from you old school.
I would like to see eligibility granted to all ex grads and over 40's be allowed to come back and run for their schools and at college or university races again. Train on your own or with team, maybe behind team. Lets all encourage running without age discrimination and open the colleges and universities up to the older athletes. The youth will see that running is forever and the highway doesn't end with college. So they have to go to a few funerals?