I think my roommate is pregnant. Can she keep her full scholarship? Or can the coach take it? She is a sophomore and just hit a 1600m in 5:33 so she is still good. Her PR is around 5:05.
She made a comment about pregnancy and has been intermittently vomiting. I want her to stay on the team.
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First, don't assume unless she confided in you. You could always just ask, as I'm assuming there's a good chance you're close since you're teammates and roommates.
Here is the NCAA page on pregnancy:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/inclusion/pregnant-parenting-student-athletes
She should be aware of her rights as a pregnant athlete. They should not be able to revoke her scholarship. She should also find a doctor willing to sign off on her continuing to exercise throughout pregnancy, as the school may require that.
is a great website for finding a pregnancy center near you that is very familiar with resources specific to your area and can offer free ultrasound, material assistance, etc...
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A prepared student athlete trying to get pregnant.
Youdontknowtilyouknow wrote:
First, don't assume unless she confided in you. You could always just ask, as I'm assuming there's a good chance you're close since you're teammates and roommates.
Here is the NCAA page on pregnancy:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/inclusion/pregnant-parenting-student-athletesShe should be aware of her rights as a pregnant athlete. They should not be able to revoke her scholarship. She should also find a doctor willing to sign off on her continuing to exercise throughout pregnancy, as the school may require that.
https://www.care-net.orgis a great website for finding a pregnancy center near you that is very familiar with resources specific to your area and can offer free ultrasound, material assistance, etc...
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A prepared student athlete trying to get pregnant.
Dumbest post in the history of Letsrun.
You're in school to learn and an athlete to compete.
Trying to get pregnant?
That's your decision. Don't burden your school.
They aren't responsible for any of your child care expenses should you conceive.
Laughable.
Leave school and get a job.
You're extremely naive and entitled.
There's no way this happened, and zero chance a 5:05 miler has a full athletic scholarship
2/10 since you got some bites
1/10 and that is being generous.
Not BYU, university on the Great Plains. She is very conservative and speaks against abortion and ironically premarital sex.
Hardloper wrote:
There's no way this happened, and zero chance a 5:05 miler has a full athletic scholarship
2/10 since you got some bites
There are hundreds of 5:05 1600m females. Maybe she's a 2:07.5/5:05 athlete? Once we get down to 2:07.5 800, the numbers are few. She's trying to hide her identity.
Actually, I'm in my final semester and as a married woman not on an athletic scholarship because I'm in D3, I've decided I care more about having kids at this point! My school offers nothing to me as a pregnant student, but at 21, my husband and I have more than 10k in savings because I worked full time for a year instead of having a sophomore year in order to afford school. And after already having a miscarriage, I'm even more certain that, although I don't have to, I would be more than willing give up my 4.0, running, or even college altogether for my child.
Sorry you aren't (or weren't) prepared for adulthood at the end of college, but some of us are.
OP, Sara Vaughn and Erica Birk-Jarvis are great examples of getting pregnant in college and still achieving athletically if your teammate needs people to look up to.
yousoundreallydumb wrote:
Dumbest post in the history of Letsrun.
You're in school to learn and an athlete to compete.
Trying to get pregnant?
That's your decision. Don't burden your school.
They aren't responsible for any of your child care expenses should you conceive.
Laughable.
Leave school and get a job.
You're extremely naive and entitled.
You're at your job to work for your company. Trying to get pregnant? That's your decision. Don't burden your workplace. They aren't responsible for any of your child care expenses should you conceive. Laughable. Leave your job and marry wealthier. You're extremely naive and entitled.
Thank you
If this is the case, then she should speak with someone (preferably a doctor) at the student health center on campus or her own personal physician about following through with having a baby. Then she should have a confidential meeting with a compliance/eligibility officer in the athletic directors office about how this affects her scholarship and NCAA eligibility. I haven't read these links, but there should be some information on the NCAA website about this. Unfortunately, she may be attempting to do too much with being a new mom, a full-time college student, and an NCAA scholarship athlete.
I was at a university where a female all-american became pregnant. The athlete was able to keep her scholarship, then came back a year later and PRd to qualify for nationals again.
The thing that most people around the situation said was that she could not have her scholarship taken for anything that happens during the pregnancy, however if she was not able to train after and put in a real level of commitment, then she it could be an issue. Lucky for us, she came back and worked her butt off and was one of the top runners in the country.
However she was a tad pit better than a 5:05 miler that is running 5:30s now. So the question in this situation was probably a mid-major college over scholarshipping a developmental girl that they thought had potential... then she got pregnant.
But sometimes it works. Look at Demi Payne... if you ignore the doping.
If sub-2:07.5 ... wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
There's no way this happened, and zero chance a 5:05 miler has a full athletic scholarship
2/10 since you got some bites
There are hundreds of 5:05 1600m females. Maybe she's a 2:07.5/5:05 athlete? Once we get down to 2:07.5 800, the numbers are few. She's trying to hide her identity.
There are millions more internet trolls. Don't be naive
A school can not revoke a scholarship for being pregnant.
They can make it very hard for the athlete. If a new mother is unable to travel and practice and maintain her class load the school would have grounds to dismiss the athlete. To avoid cutting an athlete, most higher level programs would push a new mother very hard. They either adapt and get a support system in place and resume high level training or they voluntarily quit and forfeit their scholarship.
Shocked wrote:
I think my roommate is pregnant. Can she keep her full scholarship? Or can the coach take it? She is a sophomore and just hit a 1600m in 5:33 so she is still good. Her PR is around 5:05.
She made a comment about pregnancy and has been intermittently vomiting. I want her to stay on the team.
As others have said, she will keep her scholarship and automatically get another year of eligibility.
What is her local support system like though? As much as going through pregnancy and childbirth can be hard on the body, I think the bigger long term issue is who is going to watch the baby for her to go back to school.
Some schools have on campus childcare, but that typically isn't going to be available during practice and competitions.
If she has family willing to support her but they aren't local, she may be better off transferring to a school close to home. Someone mentioned Demi Payne above, and that's what Demi did, childcare-wise.
Shocked wrote:
I think my roommate is pregnant. Can she keep her full scholarship? Or can the coach take it? She is a sophomore and just hit a 1600m in 5:33 so she is still good. Her PR is around 5:05.
She made a comment about pregnancy and has been intermittently vomiting. I want her to stay on the team.
A school cannot revoke a scholarship becasue of pregancy per se; however, they can revoke it becasue of not meeting the acedemic and/or athletic standards (terms) of a scholarship. What often happens is not pregancy that causes the problems, but after becoming a mom being able to attend classes and workout consistently.
Demi Payne is a good recent example of a national-class D1 track athlete who had a baby. Part of that story is that she changed schools (from Kansas to Stephen F Austin) to be closer to her parents for a support system. So, she gave up her scholarship at Kansas.
Shocked wrote:
Not BYU, university on the Great Plains. She is very conservative and speaks against abortion and ironically premarital sex.
Wichita State then?