eligibility

[MillerTime]

i dont really understand college eligibility, do you get 4 indoor seasons and 4 outdoor seasons? or do you just get 4 years? how does it work, does it depend on the division?

thanks!

[rainbowgirl28]

In the NCAA division I you get 5 years to compete 4 seasons indoor and 4 seasons outdoor.

In the NAIA you get 10 semesters to compete 4 seasons in and out.

I don't remember the DII and DIII details.

[MillerTime]

oh i see, do you know how JR colleges work? theres only 2 meets over the winter, will that count as one of my indoor seasons? and we only have like 5 summer meets. we dont really have practices or a pit or anything, so im not gonna get any better, seems kinda dumb to waste my eligibility on a jr college, in case i decide to keep going after my bachlors degree. id ask my coach how it works, but i never see him, and i dont think he reads his email. anybody know how eligibiliy and junior colleges work?

[rainbowgirl28]

oh i see, do you know how JR colleges work? theres only 2 meets over the winter, will that count as one of my indoor seasons? and we only have like 5 summer meets. we dont really have practices or a pit or anything, so im not gonna get any better, seems kinda dumb to waste my eligibility on a jr college, in case i decide to keep going after my bachlors degree. id ask my coach how it works, but i never see him, and i dont think he reads his email. anybody know how eligibiliy and junior colleges work?

I think you generally have 2 seasons (indoor and outdoor) and 3 years to do it.

If you're competing for your school you're using a season of eligibility. If you're not than you're not but if you're a full time student, your eligibility clock is ticking.

[MillerTime]

say i get my associates degree from one school, then decide to transfer and get a different bachlors degree. i used up 2 years or eligibility at the 2-year school, now do i only have 2 years of eligibility left at the 4-year school, or does it start over? the old school was njcaa DIII, the new will be ncaa DII?

and since i only have 5 years to use them, lets say i do track my freshman year of the 2-year school, then i skip my sophomore year, and i skip my freshman year of the 4-year school. i do track during my sophomore and junior year, can i still do it my senior year?

im just confused by transfers, especially when its between 2 completely different divisions. -thanks!

[rainbowgirl28]

say i get my associates degree from one school, then decide to transfer and get a different bachlors degree. i used up 2 years or eligibility at the 2-year school, now do i only have 2 years of eligibility left at the 4-year school, or does it start over? the old school was njcaa DIII, the new will be ncaa DII?

and since i only have 5 years to use them, lets say i do track my freshman year of the 2-year school, then i skip my sophomore year, and i skip my freshman year of the 4-year school. i do track during my sophomore and junior year, can i still do it my senior year?

im just confused by transfers, especially when its between 2 completely different divisions. -thanks!

Well hopefully if you get an AA at a junior college, you come into the university as a junior Your eligibility does not start over in the NCAA. Your clock starts ticking when you are full time at any division.

If you do 2 years at a JC, you'll have 3 years left on your clock in the NCAA. If you compete 1 year at the JC and redshirt the 2nd year, you can compete years 3, 4, and 5 at the DII school.

You also have to keep your GPA above a certain level, and be making a certain amount of progress towards graduation. I couldn't tell you the details on those things, they vary a lot.

[MillerTime]

alright, now i understand. my gpa should be fine, i made the deans list last semester hopefully ill still be interested in my major when i goto the D2 school, then i wont need to start a whole new 4 years, but im afraid not all of my credits will get transferred, and maybe i wont be able to get the bachlors in 2 years, if i go an extra year, ill be wishin i could vault

[VTechVaulter]

In the NCAA division I you get 5 years to compete 4 seasons indoor and 4 seasons outdoor.

In the NAIA you get 10 semesters to compete 4 seasons in and out.

I don't remember the DII and DIII details.

unless your a mormon at byu. then they freakin get like 8 years to complete their eligibility. i mean for cryin out loud they have 27 year old guys on their roster. ridiculous

[bjvando]

hahahaha, true true.....


not sure if anyone touched on this but, you're eligibility clock doesnt start until you enroll in 12 units at a college.... no matter what college it is, JC, D1, DII, DIII.....

thats why lots of kids at BYU start older.....They go on a mission about a year out of high school.... do that for two years, so when they actually START college they're 20/21 years old.... add 5 years.... they're 25/26 maybe even 27 when graduating!!!!! but they're following the rules, no matter how unfair we think it is.....

[rainbowgirl28]

Some of the mormons start college at a later age, some start college straight out of high school then go on their mission.

The NCAA allows their clock to stop while they are on their mission, so when they come back it as if they never left.

I've heard that the NCAA also stops your clock if you leave college to serve in the military.

[VTechVaulter]

hahahaha, true true.....


not sure if anyone touched on this but, you're eligibility clock doesnt start until you enroll in 12 units at a college.... no matter what college it is, JC, D1, DII, DIII.....

thats why lots of kids at BYU start older.....They go on a mission about a year out of high school.... do that for two years, so when they actually START college they're 20/21 years old.... add 5 years.... they're 25/26 maybe even 27 when graduating!!!!! but they're following the rules, no matter how unfair we think it is.....

that is true they are following all the rules. a lot of the same thing happens with foreign recruiting too. just frustrating for some of us sometimes when your junior competing against guys 4 years older than you

[ashcraftpv]

I do think there is also and age limit on when the clock can start as well. I think that you have to begin your eligibility before you are 25, although I'm not sure.