SPORTS PARTICIPATION and ALL EXTRACURRICULAR COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Student eligibility will be determined by the following criteria.  These include:

• Students entering the high school from the middle school, or any other eighth grade school, will be eligible to participate in a club or organization during their first marking period.

• Eligibility for the first quarter is based upon the final grades from the preceding year for 10th, 11th and 12th graders. Following the first quarter, eligibility for participation in any club or organization for all students will be based upon the grades from the marking period preceding the activity for the second, third and fourth quarter.

• All club and organization members must have earned a grade of 65 or above in five (5) classes the quarter prior to the activity. Additionally, they must not have any unserved disciplinary consequences or be classified as chronically absent (absent from school more than 18 days for the year). 

• All club and organization members must be in attendance for a minimum of half of the school day in order to practice, play, or participate on that day.  The Administration may make an exception before the student’s departure from school for that day.

• No student below grade nine is allowed to practice or participate in any club or organization without the permission of the Principal.

TO BE CERTIFIED BY THE NCAA’S CLEARINGHOUSE, STUDENTS MUST:

1. Apply for certification - You should apply for certification after completing your junior year, request test scores from the testing company, and transcript request in Naviance.  If you appear to meet NCAA requirements, the Clearinghouse will issue a preliminary certification.  After you graduate, the Clearinghouse will review your final transcript to make a final certification decision.

2. Grade-Point Average

• Be sure to look at your high school’s list of NCAA-approved core courses on the clearinghouse Web site to make certain that the courses being taken have been approved as core courses. The website is www.eligibilitycenter.org.

• Division I grade-point-average requirements according to Sliding Scale A

• The Division II The minimum core grade-point average is 2.0. The minimum SAT score is 820 (verbal and math sections only) and the minimum ACT sum score is 68.          

NCAA  ELIGIBILITY CLEARINGHOUSE 2016 AND BEYOND, STUDENTS MUST:

Full Qualifier

Complete 16 Core Courses:

• 10 of the 16 core courses must be completed before 7th semester (senior year) of high school.

• 7 of the 10 core courses must be in English, Math, or Science.

Minimum Core-Course GPA of 2.3

Meet the Competition sliding scale requirement of GPA and ACT/SAT score.*

Graduate from high school.

Academic Redshirt

Complete 16 core courses.

Minimum Core-Course GPA of 2.0

Meet the Academic Redshirt sliding scale requirement of GPA and ACT/SAT score.*

Graduate from high school.

Nonqualifier

Does not meet requirements for Full Qualifier or Academic Redshirt status

*To view the Full Qualifier and Academic Redshirt sliding scales, please click here.

**International prospective student-athletes who present international graduation credentials listed in the NCAA Guide to International Academic Standards for Athletics Eligibility will be exempt from meeting the seventh semester core course distribution requirements.

Full Qualifier: A college-bound student-athlete may receive athletics aid (scholarship), practice and compete in the first year of enrollment at the Division I college or university.

Academic Redshirt: A college-bound student-athlete may receive athletics aid (scholarship) in the first year of enrollment and may practice in the first regular academic term (semester or quarter) but may NOT compete in the first year of enrollment. After the first term is complete, the college-bound student-athlete must be academically successful at his/her college or university to continue to practice for the rest of the year.

Nonqualifier: A college-bound student-athlete cannot receive athletics aid (scholarship), cannot practice and cannot compete in the first year of enrollment.

For further information and for requirements for Division II, see the Athletic Director, School Counselor or contact:

NCAA Initial-Eligibility Center

Certification Processing

PO Box 7136

Indianapolis, IN 46207

FAX 317-968-5102

www.eligibilitycenter.org