Question about eligibility

[MushroomKing]

Does NCWA (club wrestling) count towards eligibility years?

ryan Deihl wrestled 2 years in NCWA, including the post season (2x champ)

then he wrestled 4 years at Maryland. So he had a total of 6 years of competition. Is that allowed ? Could he have done 4 years NCWA then wreslted 4 years of ncaa?

 

does NCWA just not matter?

[Idaho]

34 minutes ago, MushroomKing said:

Does NCWA (club wrestling) count towards eligibility years?

ryan Deihl wrestled 2 years in NCWA, including the post season (2x champ)

then he wrestled 4 years at Maryland. So he had a total of 6 years of competition. Is that allowed ? Could he have done 4 years NCWA then wreslted 4 years of ncaa?

 

does NCWA just not matter?

That's a good question... He still could have gotten the 6 years with a redshirt and a COVID year. 

[MushroomKing]

On 6/14/2023 at 11:48 AM, Idaho said:

That's a good question... He still could have gotten the 6 years with a redshirt and a COVID year. 

Could someone wrestle 4 years NCWA, go ncaa, take a red shirt , covid year , gray shirt , injury year and then compete 4 years NCAA

have wrestled a combined 12 years in college? Lol

 

 

[Idaho]

10 hours ago, MushroomKing said:

Could someone wrestle 4 years NCWA, go ncaa, take a red shirt , covid year , gray shirt , injury year and then compete 4 years NCAA

have wrestled a combined 12 years in college? Lol

 

 

Don’t forget an oly redshirt…. 

[CHROMEBIRD]

On 6/14/2023 at 10:13 AM, MushroomKing said:

Does NCWA (club wrestling) count towards eligibility years?

ryan Deihl wrestled 2 years in NCWA, including the post season (2x champ)

then he wrestled 4 years at Maryland. So he had a total of 6 years of competition. Is that allowed ? Could he have done 4 years NCWA then wreslted 4 years of ncaa?

 

does NCWA just not matter?

No

Yes, yes

Yes

[DJT]

The Division I five-year clock starts when you step on any college campus (after HS graduation), and one can compete in NCAA competition four of the next five calendar years (I.e. If you start school and quit, your clock keeps running). COVID added a year to the clock and competition years.

You could not wrestle four years of NWCA then four years of NCAA without compromising the space-time continuum, and that would be bad for everyone, I imagine.

[MushroomKing]

But he wrestled 6 seasons so how’s that work? 

[Wrestleknownothing]

14 minutes ago, MushroomKing said:

But he wrestled 6 seasons so how’s that work? 

Covid turned 4 in 5 to 5 in 6 temporarily.

[Idaho]

One of his 6 years was a redshirt. He was finished in 2019 before COVID so that does not factor in. It does show 5 years of wrestling though. The only thing I can think of is that maybe he got a medical year it's not showing. Liberty is a D1 school, but wrestling was downgraded to club status in 2011 or 2012. So I am not sure if there are stipulations with the school being D1 but the program being club NWCA.  Also, I am not sure if 2015 rules were different than today. 

 

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Edited June 17, 2023 by Idaho

[gimpeltf]

He might not have been fully matriculated at Liberty. An article I read did mention grades as to why he didn't go immediately to Maryland.

Plus the current rule of allowing someone a year after HS graduation before enrolling full time before it counts against eligibility might have been enacted for after his first year at Liberty. I think it went into effect in the 14-15 school year.

[MushroomKing]

So if I wrestled 3 years NCWA 

 

waited 10 years and went back to college and walked on a NCAA program would I be able to?

[DJT]

22 minutes ago, MushroomKing said:

So if I wrestled 3 years NCWA 

 

waited 10 years and went back to college and walked on a NCAA program would I be able to?

Possibly D3. Not D1… don’t think D2 either… unless you’ve been overseas on military deployment the whole time. I believe there’s a deferment for that.

[TexRef]

On 6/19/2023 at 3:57 PM, DJT said:

Possibly D3. Not D1… don’t think D2 either… unless you’ve been overseas on military deployment the whole time. I believe there’s a deferment for that.

In that scenario you see most guys go the NAIA route. 

NAIA stands for...

No

Athletic 

Investigation 

Allowed 

[Idaho]

Yeah... most guys go NAIA .... there's even  some that go JC.