There is a pitcher on our college team that has a back injury and the coach told him he may seek a medical redshirt for this year, Does anyone have experience or information about exactly how this works.
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If coach gets it for him take it---it eliminates this season as a countable year and leaves him with whatever amount of time he had coming into this season
Sdawg34,
Medical redshirt example:
My son is a D3 pitcher who is an academic junior but expects to take 5 years to graduate. He played his freshman and sophomore years and pitched this past fall, but is rehabbing an injury this spring. He will not play this spring at all and expects to get the medical redshirt waiver, so that he will have 2 years of baseball eligibility remaining.
However, another pitcher on my son's team got the medical redshirt waiver last spring even though he had already pitched in some spring games before the injury. I don't know the specific guidelines, but there is a certain number of games or innings that a player can participate in, up to a certain point in the season, and still be eligible to apply for the waiver for an injury. IF the waiver is granted by the NCAA, that player would not lose a year of eligibility for the few games or innings they played in.
I hope I explained that right!
Medical redshirt example:
My son is a D3 pitcher who is an academic junior but expects to take 5 years to graduate. He played his freshman and sophomore years and pitched this past fall, but is rehabbing an injury this spring. He will not play this spring at all and expects to get the medical redshirt waiver, so that he will have 2 years of baseball eligibility remaining.
However, another pitcher on my son's team got the medical redshirt waiver last spring even though he had already pitched in some spring games before the injury. I don't know the specific guidelines, but there is a certain number of games or innings that a player can participate in, up to a certain point in the season, and still be eligible to apply for the waiver for an injury. IF the waiver is granted by the NCAA, that player would not lose a year of eligibility for the few games or innings they played in.
I hope I explained that right!
I read that if a player participates in less than 20% of the games and that if playing time was in the first half of the season, that they are eligible for the redshirt waiver. Any reason that the NCAA would not abibe by these guidelines?
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