ISL Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The International Swimming League announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers registered in the ISL Season 3 draft.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The International Swimming League announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers registered in the ISL Season 3 draft.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-28T14:54:49+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-29T12:03:53+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdoctormd\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\"},\"headline\":\"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-28T14:54:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-29T12:03:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"International Swimming League\",\"ISL\",\"ISL Draft\",\"ISL Season 3\",\"Konstantin Grigorishin\",\"NCAA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"-Home Slider\",\"Americas\",\"College\",\"World\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\",\"name\":\"ISL Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-28T14:54:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-29T12:03:53+00:00\",\"description\":\"The International Swimming League announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers registered in the ISL Season 3 draft.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Mine Kasapoglu \/ ISL\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\",\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\"},\"description\":\"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ISL Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision","description":"The International Swimming League announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers registered in the ISL Season 3 draft.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision","og_description":"The International Swimming League announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers registered in the ISL Season 3 draft.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2021-05-28T14:54:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-05-29T12:03:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sportsdoctormd","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/"},"author":{"name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3"},"headline":"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision","datePublished":"2021-05-28T14:54:49+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-29T12:03:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/"},"wordCount":294,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg","keywords":["International Swimming League","ISL","ISL Draft","ISL Season 3","Konstantin Grigorishin","NCAA"],"articleSection":["-Home Slider","Americas","College","World"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/","name":"ISL Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2021-05-28T14:54:49+00:00","dateModified":"2021-05-29T12:03:53+00:00","description":"The International Swimming League announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers registered in the ISL Season 3 draft.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Mine Kasapoglu \/ ISL"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3","name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer"},"description":"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Mine Kasapoglu \/ ISL","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/international-swimming-league-ISL-venue-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-1Zqm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":474446,"date":"2021-05-28T07:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=474446"},"modified":"2021-05-29T05:03:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:03:53","slug":"isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/isl-action-or-fifth-year-of-college-ncaa-athletes-given-time-to-make-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISL Action Or Fifth Year of College: NCAA Athletes Given Time to Make Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n

The International Swimming League Friday announced a three-week \u201ccooling-off\u201d period in June for NCAA swimmers considering taking part in the league\u2019s draft for Season 3.<\/p>\n

The period will last from June 1-22. It gives NCAA student-athletes a period to gauge interest in them in the ISL and provides a deadline to withdraw to maintain amateur status for the NCAA.<\/p>\n

The ISL\u2019s exemption gives athletes time to ponder ISL inclusion against the NCAA\u2019s decision to extend an extra year of eligibility for the pandemic-affected year. The cooling-off period offers swimmers time to weigh their options and safeguards amateur status. Participation in a professional league like the ISL would mean an end to amateur status and thus NCAA eligibility for swimmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have listened to the worries and concerns of some NCAA student swimmers who are undecided about registering for the ISL Draft,\u201d ISL founder Konstantin Grigorishin<\/strong> said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cThis is a unique situation for a handful of swimmers that requires understanding and a proactive solution on our part. We want to reassure these swimmers that if they sign up before the deadline of 31st May we will understand and wish them well if they subsequently decide to withdraw ahead of the draft itself in order to continue as an NCAA student-athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deadline to register for the ISL Season 3 draft, which is being newly implemented this year<\/a>, remains May 31. But swimmers have the option to withdraw ahead of that June 22 period. The draft will take place during the week of June 28. Full draft rules and the ISL athlete registry are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"