{"id":449372,"date":"2020-10-14T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=449372"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:46:33","slug":"ncaa-votes-to-grant-winter-sports-athletes-additional-year-of-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-votes-to-grant-winter-sports-athletes-additional-year-of-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Votes to Grant Winter Sports Athletes Additional Year of Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NCAA Division I council voted today in favor of winter sports athletes receiving additional year of eligibility, the NCAA has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic first affected winter sports like swimming last year when the NCAA had to cancel the entirety of the winter sports championships, including the famed March Madness basketball tournament as well as the\u00a0Division II swimming & diving championships<\/a> halfway through the meet. The spring sports season was wiped out entirely, and the affected student athletes were granted another year of eligibility over getting their season taken away out of their control.<\/p>\n

Some swim meets this season have been planned<\/a> but there is no guarantee a national championship could be held, so it may be the best decision to allow to student athletes to use an extra year of eligibility if not every school can safely make it to the NCAA championships.<\/p>\n

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Division 1 Council voted today in favor of winter athletes receiving additional year of eligibility, source told @Stadium<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t discussion around roster size, but source said \u201cthose who exhausted eligibility will be exempted from counting against 13 scholarship limit." https:\/\/t.co\/Gp7mb6722T<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n