It's always fun to try to read through the D1 manual. I liken it to trying to read James Joyce's Ulysses (not that I have). Both around 500 pages of gibberish.
I believe those two individuals (and Jordan Wood at Lehigh during Covid year) were not enrolled first semester then enrolled second.
14.4.3.7 Waivers of Progress-Toward-Degree Rule. The Division I Progress-Toward-Degree Waivers Committee
shall establish appropriate criteria for waivers of this legislation. The following waivers shall be administered by the
8/10/23 160 conference members of the Association or, in the case of an independent institution, by the Division I Progress-Toward- Degree Waivers Committee. (Revised: 1/9/96, 10/28/97, 4/27/00, 10/31/02 effective 8/1/03, 3/10/04, 4/28/05, 1/17/09 effective 8/1/09, 1/14/12, 5/22/13, 3/27/18, 1/22/20, 1/22/20)
(b) International Competition. The credit hours required under the progress-toward-degree regulation of Bylaws
14.4.3.1 and 14.4.3.6-(c) may be prorated at nine hours per term of actual attendance during an academic year in
which a student is not enrolled for a term or terms or is unable to complete a term as a full-time student as a result of
participation in the Pan American Games, Parapan American Games, Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World
Championships, World Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup, World University Games (Universiade) or World University
Championships (including final tryouts and the officially recognized training program that directly qualifies
participants for those tryouts). This waiver provision may be applied to not more than two semesters or three quarters.
Credits earned by the student during the term or terms to which the waiver applies may be used to satisfy the 24-/36-
hour [see Bylaw 14.4.3.1-(a)], percentage-of-degree (see Bylaw 14.4.3.2) and grade-point average requirements (see
Bylaw 14.4.3.3). However, a term to which an international competition waiver applies does not count as a term of
full-time enrollment for purposes of the 24/36 credit-hour requirement, percentage-of-degree requirements or gradepoint average requirements.
14.4.3.8 Waiver -- Olympic or Paralympic Games. The Division I Progress-Toward-Degree Waivers Committee may
waive this general progress-toward-degree requirement for any participant in the Olympic or Paralympic Games, who
because of such participation, may lose eligibility for practice and competition in any sport. (Adopted: 10/31/02 effective
8/1/03, Revised: 1/22/20)