I started competing in outdoor track in 2005. graduated a couple years ago with my bachelors. I have at least a season of outdoor track eligibility, but i think the rule in D2 is that you have 5 years from when you start competing in a sport to finish 4 seasons....is this true? if so, not a big deal. im still running road races. just wanted to check....
It is based off how many full time semesters you have taken....I believe you get ten in order to use eight - that sounds confusing but I'm not sure how else to put it. Definitely no running clock.
Now - I heard the rule was going to change, I don't know if it has or if that rumor is even true.
Wait, so if I graduated 10 years ago but have only been enrolled for 8 semesters I can still compete if I go back? (I only ran for 2 years in college)
Have eligibility? wrote:
Wait, so if I graduated 10 years ago but have only been enrolled for 8 semesters I can still compete if I go back? (I only ran for 2 years in college)
Yes on two semesters.
you have 5 years from the time you start college to finish up 4 years worth of eligibilty. on rare occasions, the NCAA will grant someone a 6th year to finish up their eligibility if they have legitimate reason
mabrunner wrote:
you have 5 years from the time you start college to finish up 4 years worth of eligibilty. on rare occasions, the NCAA will grant someone a 6th year to finish up their eligibility if they have legitimate reason
^^This is wrong for D2 eligibility. You have 10 full time semesters from when you start college to use all 8 semesters of eligibility. However, a new rule has been put into place along the lines of competing with a club. Club competition (or possibly any outside competition like road races) can technically count as a used season of eligibility, the way I understand it. It has been put in place mainly to limit foreign athletes from have eligibility after they finish school oversees, then compete with a club, then show up as ringers after a couple of years. There are obviously loop holes based on athletes still getting waivers to compete though...
i ran d2 in '09 and '10 while getting my masters degree. i did not run in undergrad and finished my bachelor's in 2005. because i'd been a full-time student in undergrad for 7 semesters--even though i hadn't competed during that time--i was only awarded 3 semesters of eligibility during which i could compete for the d2 school. i'm not sure if the rules have changed in the last two years, but that's how it worked for me. hope this is helpful.