University of Minnesota Athletics
9/24/07 - Redshirts
10/24/2007 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
Compliance Weekly E-mail
Week of September 24, 2007
Redshirts
We often receive questions from coaches and staff about how a student-athlete qualifies for a redshirt season. A student-athlete may take a redshirt season if they do not participate in any competitions while representing the U of M. A student-athlete may still travel with a team and qualify for a redshirt season.
Any competition against another team during the championship season in their sport, counts as a season of competition for the student-athlete (Bylaw 14.2.3.1). Therefore if a student-athlete plays one minute of a competition against an alumni team they will have used one season of competition.
In the sports of basketball and soccer only, there are exceptions for 1st year student-athletes to participate in exhibition contests without using a season of competition (Bylaw 14.2.3.1.2).
