Fourth Season of Eligibility for Nonqualifier in a Five-Year Program (I)
Date Published: September 17, 2009
Type: Staff Interpretation
The academic and membership affairs staff determined that a fourth season of intercollegiate competition may be granted to a student-athlete who is a nonqualifier and whose designated degree program is identified in the institution's official catalog as a five-year program or otherwise requires the completion of a minimum of 150-semester or 225-quarter hours, provided that at the beginning of the fifth academic year following the student-athlete's initial, full-time collegiate enrollment, the student-athlete has successfully completed at least 67 percent of his or her designated degree program. [References: NCAA Bylaws 14.3.3.1 (fourth season of competition -- not a qualifier) and 14.4.3.2.1 (five-year degree program)]
Administration of Hardship Waiver for Transfer Student-Athletes (I)
Date Published: September 17, 2009
Type: Official Interpretation
The committee determined that in applying the hardship waiver legislation to a student-athlete who suffers an injury or illness while attending an NCAA Division II or Division III institution and later transfers to a Division I institution, the legislation of the division in which the injury or illness occurred or the Division I legislation may be used. The application of a particular division's legislation must include all the applicable elements of that division's legislation, as opposed to selected elements of the legislation of each division. [References: NCAA Bylaws 14.2.4 (hardship waiver) and 14.2.4.3.6.3 (transfer student-athletes); and staff interpretation (9/17/09, item b), which has been archived]