Medical retirement

[rhitusc]

anyone know where, if anywhere, there is information online regarding medical retirement? looked on the NCAA website and couldn't find much. My thought was that if a student-athlete on scholarship takes a medical retirement, then the scholarship is continued, but through a different pot of money - possibly from the NCAA.

Anyone have any reliable info?

[BearClause]

It's in the D-I Manual. They can take the player off as a "counter" in **future** seasons to open one from the limit of 12 and the scholarship can be funded from some special fund in the athletic dept. However - if there's some sort of "miracle recovery" and want to come back to play, they will have to be a counter for any season they receive the medical fund athletic aid. It might be possible to do that if there was at least one scholarship spot unfilled in each year that the aid was received.

[BearClause]

2009-10 D-I Manual - P 184:

www.ncaapublications.com/Uploads/PDF/D1_Manual9d74a0b2-d10d-4587-8902-b0c781e128ae.pdf

15.5.1.3 Counter Who Becomes Injured or Ill. A counter who becomes injured or ill to the point that he or she apparently never again will be able to participate in intercollegiate athletics shall not be considered a counter beginning with the academic year following the incapacitating injury or illness.

15.5.1.3.1 Incapacitating Injury or Illness. If an incapacitating injury or illness occurs prior to a prospective student-athlete’s or a student-athlete’s participation in athletically related activities and results in the student-athlete’s inability to compete ever again, the student-athlete shall not be counted within the institution’s maximum financial aid award limitations for the current, as well as later academic years. However, if the incapacitating injury or illness occurs on or after the student-athlete’s participation in countable athletically related activities in the sport, the student-athlete shall be counted in the institution’s maximum financial aid limitations for the current academic year but need not be counted in later academic years. (Adopted: 1/10/91, Revised: 3/26/04, 9/18/07)

15.5.1.3.2 Change in Circumstances. If circumstances change and the student-athlete subsequently practices or competes at the institution at which the incapacitating injury or illness occurred, the student-athlete again shall become a counter, and the institution shall be required to count that financial aid under the limitations of this bylaw in the sport in question during each academic year in which the financial aid was received. (Revised: 4/26/01 effective 8/1/01)

15.5.1.3.3 Waiver. The Legislative Council Subcommittee for Legislative Relief may waive the requirements of Bylaw 15.5.1.3.2 upon determination that sufficient documentation is available from competent medical authorities to indicate that the original injury or illness clearly appeared to be incapacitating and that there was no reasonable expectation that the student-athlete ever again would be able to participate in intercollegiate athletics. (Revised: 11/1/07 effective 8/1/08)