What GPA is typically required to stay academically eligible?

Good question.  I like your son's coach and his demand for academic achievement.

My son is at a high academic D1.  He  must achieve a 2.0 overall, in his major, and in basic requirement classes to graduate.  I haven't heard from him that the coach requires otherwise.  He is also provided with tutors if needed and mandatory study hall as freshman (and for later years if needed/required).

I got this from the NCAA website:

What are the Division I grade-point average requirements to remain eligible?

Student-athletes must achieve 90 percent of the institution’s minimum overall grade-point average necessary to graduate (for example, 1.8) by the beginning of year two, 95 percent of the minimum GPA (1.9) by year three and 100 percent (2.0) by year four.

baseballmomx4, keewart has shared the basic NCAA rule with you, which is a great starting point.  In addition, some Division I conferences may have a requirement that is a bit more strict than the NCAA.  (So, for example, 2.00, regardless of the examples of 1.8 or 1.9 as in what keewart pulled from the NCAA site.)

I often tell parents that Division I athletes should think of 2.600 as the GPA minimum.  This article from our website explains why:

http://informedathlete.com/how...nt-athlete-transfers

Thanks for the info Keewart and Rick.  So is it possible for an individual coach or school to require a 3.0 Or do they have to follow the NCAA rule?  The more I talk to people the more I think maybe I misunderstood and he was talking about being eligible to renew his scholarship and not playing eligibility. 

Individual schools or coaches have the right to establish requirements that are more strict than the NCAA. When they do that, however, they should be stated in team rules that are distributed to all team members, or in the case of a department-wide requirement, in their student-athlete handbook.

Thanks again Rick.  The student athlete handbook is where I should have started. It gave me all the info you just did. I guess I was mistaken. He needs to keep the academic portion of his scholarship so he does need that 3.0 anyway.

Thanks for your help.

basebaseballmomx4,

The div 1 coach sounds a lot like my sons D1 HC.  Very strict about going to class as well as maintaining a GPA above the NCAA requirement.  I think his goal was and still is 3.0 per the team. Besides turning out a 500 team its also the HC job to make sure that his players graduate on time.

Its good to be strict, and most successful D1 coaches are because of the standards that they expect from their players.

D1 athletes are required first semester mandatory study hall, I believe it is 20 hours a week.  After they prove themselves they do not have to attend, but it is left up to the coaches discretion to send them back. They dont like it but they get their work done. 

Its all good!!!

Thanks TPM. I like the coach and that he wants them to do well academically.  I really like the mandatory study hall as well.. My son keeps saying he will be fine, but I really don't think he really grasps yet how much time is involved. Study hall would take some of the time management issue out of his hands.  One of his friends came over during the break after his 1st semester away. Poor kid looked like he had been put through the ringer.