University of Minnesota Athletics
3/20/07 - Redshirts and Medical Redshirts
3/20/2007 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
Compliance Weekly E-mail
March 20th, 2007
Redshirts, Medical Redshirts & Medical Non-Counters
We often receive questions regarding redshirts, medical redshirts and medical non-counters. Below is summary of each:
Redshirts
** All medical documentation needed for hardship and non-counter waivers must be coordinated through the athletic training staff and certified by the athletic department team doctors.
If you have any questions, please contact the Compliance Office.
March 20th, 2007
Redshirts, Medical Redshirts & Medical Non-Counters
We often receive questions regarding redshirts, medical redshirts and medical non-counters. Below is summary of each:
Redshirts
- 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, regardless of time played (even one minute), counts as a season of competition for the student-athlete (Bylaw 14.2.3.1).
- There are exceptions for 1st year student-athletes to participate in exhibition contests without using a season of competition in the sports of basketball and soccer (Bylaw 14.2.3.1.2).
- Medical hardship waivers allow student-athletes to be granted an additional year of competition if they suffer an incapacitating injury or illness (as certified by our team doctors) under the following criteria:
- Injury occurs during one of their four seasons of collegiate competition or subsequent to their first day of class as a senior in high school;
- Injury occurs prior to the completion of the first half of their championship season; and
- Student-athlete has not participated in more than two contests/ dates of competition or 20% of their scheduled or completed season, whichever is greater (Bylaw 14.2.4).
- Approved medical non-counter waivers allow a scholarship student-athlete who becomes injured/ill to the point that they will never again participate in college athletics to receive their athletic scholarship without the scholarship counting toward the team’s scholarship limit (Bylaw 15.5.1.3).
** All medical documentation needed for hardship and non-counter waivers must be coordinated through the athletic training staff and certified by the athletic department team doctors.
If you have any questions, please contact the Compliance Office.
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