Post by Voleibol!!!!!! on Oct 22, 2015 12:02:38 GMT -5
No NCAA only allows 4.5 scholarships for men's volleyball because of title 9, where football can give a lot of scholarships, girls volleyball can give 12 and girls basketball can give 15, men's volleyball can only give 4.5 because of title 9 and all the opportunities football gets to give out. Shane Davis told me this directly.
15.02.4.1 Athletically Related Financial Aid. Athletically related financial aid is financial aid that is
awarded on any basis that is related to athletics ability, participation or achievement. If an application process
specifically requests athletics participation or achievements as criteria for consideration in determining whether
an applicant receives financial aid, aid received pursuant to such a process is athletically related financial aid
15.5.3.2.4 Exceptions.
15.5.3.2.4.1 Academic Honor Awards—Based on High School Record. Academic honor
awards that are part of an institution’s normal arrangements for academic scholarships, based solely
on the recipient’s high school record and awarded independently of athletics interests and in amounts
consistent with the pattern of all such awards made by institutions, are exempt from an institution’s
equivalency computation, provided the recipient was ranked in the upper 10 percent of the high school
graduating class or achieved a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.500 (based on a maximum
of 4.000) or a minimum ACT sum score of 105 or a minimum SAT score of 1200 (critical reading
and math). (Adopted: 1/12/99 effective 8/1/99, Revised: 1/14/08 effective 8/1/08, 1/16/10 effective 8/1/10)
15.5.3.2.4.1.2 Renewals. The renewal of an academic honor award (per Bylaw 15.5.3.2.4.1)
may be exempted from an institution’s equivalency computation regardless of whether the recipient
qualified for exemption in his or her initial academic year enrollment, provided: (Adopted:
1/12/99 effective 8/1/99, Revised: 3/18/10)
(a) The recipient achieves a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.000 (based on a maximum
of 4.000) at the certifying institution; and
(b) The recipient meets all NCAA, conference and institutional progress-toward-degree requirements.
15.5.3.2.4.3 Institutional Academic Scholarships. Institutional academic scholarships that are
part of an institution’s normal arrangements for academic scholarships, based solely on the recipient’s
academic record at the certifying institution, awarded independently of athletics interests and in
amounts consistent with the pattern of all such awards made by the institution, are exempt from an
institution’s equivalency computation, provided the recipient has completed at least one academic year
of full-time enrollment at the certifying institution and has achieved a cumulative grade-point average
of at least 3.000 (on a 4.000 scale) at the certifying institution. (Adopted: 10/27/05 effective 8/1/06,
Revised: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11)