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Eligibility Regulations and Requirements
To be eligible to compete and receive expenses associated with competition, a student-athlete must be both academically eligible and be certified as an amateur by the NCAA. NCAA Bylaw 14 governs Academics and General Requirements Eligibility. NCAA Bylaw 12 governs Amateurism. In addition, some transfer student-athletes may not be eligible for competition upon transferring and may have to sit a year in residence.
Independent of academic eligibility and status, student-athletes can render themselves ineligible in other ways; for example, a student-athlete may render themselves ineligible by accepting extra benefits or competing in outside competitions and accepting non-approved expenses or by failing a drug test. If a student-athlete is rendered ineligible in these circumstances, the student-athlete will have to go through the NCAA reinstatement process before they will be eligible to compete again and may lose all or a portion of their season of competition. Competition while ineligible will result in the student-athlete having to sit at least a 2-for-1 penalty and will void any team victories in which the student-athlete participated.
NCAA Academic Eligibility Requirements
· Progress-Toward-Degree Requirements |
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Academic Requirements |
Prior to the Second Year of Enrollment |
Prior to the Third Year of Enrollment |
Prior to the Fourth Year of Enrollment |
Prior to the Fifth Year of Enrollment |
Regular Academic Term |
6 semester/6 quarter hours of credit |
6 semester/6 quarter hours of credit |
6 semester/6 quarter hours of credit |
6 semester/6 quarter hours of credit |
Regular Academic Year |
18 semester/27 quarter hours of credit |
18 semester/27 quarter hours of credit |
18 semester/27 quarter hours of credit |
18 semester/27 quarter hours of credit |
Degree Credit |
Credits accepted toward any degree offered at the institution |
Credits used must go toward the designated degree |
Credits used must go toward the designated degree |
Credits used must go toward the designated degree |
Annual/Percentage-of-Degree |
24 semester/36 quarter hours of credit |
40-percent of the designated degree must be completed |
60-percent of the designated degree must be completed |
80-percent of the designated degree must be completed |
Grade-Point Average |
90-percent of the minimum GPA required for graduation (1.8 if a 2.0 is the minimum) |
95-percent of the minimum GPA required for graduation (1.9 if a 2.0 is the minimum) |
100-percent of the minimum GPA required for graduation (2.0 if 2.0 is the minimum) |
100-percent of the minimum GPA required for graduation (2.0 if 2.0 is the minimum) |
Application of Progress-Toward-Degree Legislation |
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Bylaw |
Description |
Application |
14.4.3.1.3.1 |
Baseball student-athletes who fail to meet the credit hour requirements prior to the fall are ineligible for the remainder of the academic year |
All baseball student-athletes |
14.4.3.1.6 |
Football student-athletes who do not earn 9-semester/8-quarter hours during the fall term and fail to earn the eligibility point may not be eligible to compete during the first four games during the next season |
All football student-athletes |
14.4.3.1.7 |
Credit hours are based on hours earned or accepted for degree credit |
All student-athletes |
14.5.5.2.10-(c) |
Four-year transfer student-athletes must have been academically eligible at the previous institution to use the one-time transfer exception |
All four-year transfer student-athletes |
14.5.5.4 |
Four-year transfer student-athletes must have been academically eligible at the previous institution to receive athletically related financial aid at the certifying institution |
All four-year transfer student-athletes |
NCAA Amateurism Eligibility Requirements
All incoming student-athletes must be certified as an amateur student-athlete. With global recruiting becoming more common, determining the amateur status of college-bound student-athletes can be challenging. All college-bound student-athletes, including international students, need to adhere to NCAA amateurism requirements in order to preserve their eligibility for NCAA intercollegiate athletics.
For the staff at the NCAA Eligibility Center to certify amateur status, college-bound student-athletes must answer a questionnaire during registration.
The questionnaire covers the following precollegiate enrollment activities:
Eligibility Clock
Division I student-athletes have five calendar years from the first enrollment at a two- or four-year school to compete four seasons of competition. In limited circumstances a waiver may be filed with the NCAA to extend a student-athletes clock if there are extraordinary circumstances; this decision is made solely by the NCAA.
Required NCAA and ETSU Compliance Forms
Before a student-athlete may practice, the individual must complete all NCAA required forms via ARMS and pass a medical physical. Your ARMS log-in is your ETSU email address including the @etsu.edu.
Before a student-athlete may compete, the individual must complete all NCAA and institutional forms on ARMS and must be cleared by the Sports Medicine Department.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding eligibility, please don’t hesitate to contact a member of our Compliance Department.