On Monday, the NCAA’s Division I Council voted to allow schools to extend eligibility for student athletes of spring sports affected by COVID-19. It will be up to each school to apply a one-year waiver, effectively resetting each athlete’s five-year clock by a year.
“The Council’s decision gives individual schools the flexibility to make decisions at a campus level,” said Council chair M. Grace Calhoun, in a release by the NCAA. “The Board of Governors encouraged conferences and schools to take action in the best interest of student-athletes and their communities, and now schools have the opportunity to do that.