Scholarship For Catchers

What a nice award, thanks for posting.

I did notice that all the past recipients were softball players and was just wondering, is that because more of them tend to apply, or they are better at writing the essays, or what the reason might be??? Just wondering?

I am wondering if this is in compliance with the NCAA? Maybe 3FG can find the rule.

In recruiting we were told any money awarded for anything (outside of the university) to do with sports counts AGAINST any athletic scholarship.

Rules may have changed.

TPM,
I don't think there is a problem. Rule 15.2.6.3 (or 15.2.5.3 in the D2 Manual) allow financial aid from an outside established and continuing program for which athletics participation is not the major criterion. The program in the OP lists 8 criteria, only 1 of which involves athletics participation. The program does not ask for attendance at a particular college or conference.

If the program follows the rules strictly, they should notify the college that the awardee attends, and the college needs to be sure that the total of financial aid doesn't exceed the cost of attendance.

By contrast, if athletic participation were the major criterion, then 15.2.6.4 applies, and there might be a complication for a recruited walk-on D1 baseball player. It is a surely unintended consequence of the new 25% and 35 man roster rules, but if the $500 scholarship triggered 15.2.6.4, a recruited player receiving such a scholarship would become a counter (15.2.6.4g), thus necessarily on the 35 man roster (17.4.8.3), and the college would be obligated to provide (15.5.4.1) a 25% scholarship! Pretty clearly this is ridiculous, and there would have to be some way around it.

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Originally posted by CPLZ:
What a nice award, thanks for posting.

I did notice that all the past recipients were softball players and was just wondering, is that because more of them tend to apply, or they are better at writing the essays, or what the reason might be??? Just wondering?

The number of girl applicants have far outnumbered the boys since the first year. In the 3 years we have been offering the award we have had 43 applicants in total. Of the 43 applicants only 8 have been guys.

With that said they all have an equal chance of winning the award but the girls by far are much more involved in community work and much more involved in school activiites outside of sports. These are 2 areas that are very important to the committee.

Thanks for asking, you are not the only one that has asked that question.

BTW 3FG,

Your thoughts on NCAA issues are the same that we have concluded as well. The key is the issue that athletic participation is a small part of the overall program and is open to players that have never been part of our program.

Just wanted to ask for New England forum members to pass this on to any Senior catchers you may have contact with.

Thanks,

Dave Weaver