Advanced Financial Aid Division I

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Advanced Financial AidDivision I

• Shauna Cobb
• Kris Richardson

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Overview

• Adopted legislation.
• Womens sand volleyball.
• Guest presenter.
• Recent interpretation.
• Division I Awards, Benefits, Expenses and
  Financial Aid (ABEFA) Cabinet Update.

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Adopted Legislation
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Adopted Legislation

• NCAA Proposal No. 2010-61.
• Provides exhausted eligibility SAs an exception
  to full-time enrollment for eligibility for
  institutional financial aid.
• Carry the credits necessary to complete degree
  requirements or
• Carry all degree-applicable courses necessary to
  complete degree requirements that are offered.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Case Study- Dylan

• Football SA at State College.
• Exhausted his eligibility in fall 2010.
• Enrolls in nine hours for spring 2011.
• The institution offers 12 hours within Dylans
  program of study.

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Case Study- Dylan (continued)

• Can the institution provide athletics aid to
  Dylan while he is enrolled less than full-time?
• No. He is not enrolled in all of the courses
  offered in his degree program for the term.
• If the institution only offered nine hours and
  Dylan enrolled in all nine hours would he be able
  to receive athletics aid?
• Yes. He is enrolled in all of the courses
  offered.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-62.
• Exempts all federal need-based aid from counting
  towards a teams limit.
• Supplemental Educational Opportunities Grant.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-63.
• Exempt all state need-based aid from counting
  towards a teams limit, provided
• Aid is administered in accordance with the
  federal methodology and
• No relationship to athletics ability.
• Aid is not exempt from determining football or
  mens/ womens basketball counter status pursuant
  to Bylaw 15.5.1.2.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-64.
• Exempt all state merit-based aid administered by
  the institution from counting towards a teams
  limit, provided
• Awarding criteria satisfy requirements for
• Academic honor award or
• Institutional academic scholarship.
• And
• Has no relationship to athletics ability.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Case Study- Kaelyn

• Womens soccer SA at Tiger State.
• Receives a partial athletics award and she also
  receives a 500 state-merit based award.
• The institution is responsible for selecting the
  recipients and determining the amount of the
  award.
• The awarding criteria satisfies the criteria of
  an institutional academic scholarship.

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Case Study- Kaelyn (continued)

• Does the 500 count toward Kaelyns individual
  financial aid limit?
• Yes.
• Does the 500 count toward the teams limit?
• No. The award meets the criteria to exempt state
  merit-based financial aid.

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Case Study- Kaelyn (continued)

• If the award criteria did not satisfy either the
  academic honor award or institutional academic
  award, would the aid count towards Kaelyns
  individual limit? Team limit?
• Yes. The award would count towards both the
  individual and the team limit because it does not
  meet the academic honor award or institutional
  academic scholarship criteria.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-67.
• Exempts Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and Veterans
  Administration-funded portion of Yellow Ribbon
  Program.
• Institutionally-funded portion of Yellow Ribbon
  Program remains countable toward individual limit
  and, for counters, toward team limit.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-69-B.
• Exempts established and continuing outside
  scholarships from team limits provided
• Choice of institutions is not restricted by the
  donor and
• There is no direct connection to institution.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-70.
• May provide summer athletics aid to
  student-athlete who did not receive athletics aid
  the previous academic year.
• Cannot have received athletics aid in any
  previous year.
• Must receive athletics aid for upcoming year.
• Summer aid must be in proportion to athletics
  aid.
• Effective immediately.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-71.
• Institution can award athletics aid for less than
  one year if the student-athlete
• Graduated during the previous academic year
  (including summer) and
• Will exhaust athletics eligibility during the
  following fall.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Case Study - Danie

• Danie graduates at the end of the 2011 spring
  term with one season of competition eligibility
  remaining.
• She enrolls in a graduate program for 2011-12,
  hoping her volleyball performance in the fall
  will get her noticed by an international
  volleyball league.
• Danie wants to finish her graduate program, but
  is willing to delay completing the program if it
  means earning a chance to compete overseas.

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Case Study Danie (continued)

• Coach Blair wants to renew her athletics aid for
  2011-12, but is concerned that Danie may not
  remain committed to her studies after the season.
• What are the institutions options?

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Case Study Danie (continued)

• What are the institutions options?
• Renew her for the 2011-12 academic year.
• Could include nonathletically-related conditions.
• Use Bylaw 15.3.3.1.1-(c) to renew her only for
  fall 2011.
• Reduction - she is entitled to a hearing.
• Permitted to renew the aid for spring 2012.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-72.
• Prospect awarded institutional nonathletics aid
  equal or greater to the value of the signed award
  of athletics aid may release the institution of
  its obligation to provide athletics aid.
• Student-athletes own initiative.
• Before becoming a counter for the year.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Case Study - Brandon

• During the spring signing period, Brandon, a
  mens tennis prospect, signs a NLI for a
  books-only athletics award.
• The institutions financial aid agreement does
  not include a provision to allow a SA to decline
  athletics aid.
• As you review the teams financial aid awards for
  2011-12, you notice the team is at its financial
  aid limit.

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Case Study Brandon (continued)

• In June, Brandon receives his financial aid
  package from the institution.
• Package includes 4,500 in need- and merit-based
  institutional financial aid.
• He does not satisfy any of the academic honor
  award exemption criteria.
• Brandon calls your office to ask if he is able to
  keep the books award and the 4,500 in other
  institutional financial aid.
• Could Bylaw 15.3.4.2.5 help Brandon?

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Case Study Brandon (continued)

• Could Bylaw 15.3.4.2.5 help Brandon?
• Yes.
• Nonathletics package is at least equal to the
  athletics financial aid agreement and
• He has not become a counter.
• Can you talk with Brandon about Bylaw 15.3.4.2.5
  and still allow him to use the legislation?
• Yes, provided he makes the decision on his own
  initiative.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-73.
• Establishes 3.000 as minimum cumulative GPA
  needed to exempt
• Institutional academic scholarships and
• Academic honor awards for transfer students from
  team equivalency limits.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-73.
• Also applies to recruited football and basketball
  students receiving institutional academic aid
  only.
• Establishes 3.000 as minimum cumulative GPA
  needed to avoid becoming a counter after
  competing.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-75.
• Books is included in equivalency computations as
  800 in the numerator and denominator.
• Regardless of whether the student-athlete is
  awarded a full or partial book award.
• Effective August 1, 2012.

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Adopted Legislation

• Proposal No. 2010-78.
• In football, initial counter used as midyear
  graduate replacement may be counted against the
  initial limit in
• The year the aid is awarded
• if the institution's annual limit has not been
  reached
• or
• The following academic year.
• Effective immediately.

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Womens Sand Volleyball
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Sand Volleyball

• For institutions that sponsor womens and sand
  volleyball
• (a) 2011-12 three equivalencies and 14
  counters
• (b) 2012-13 four equivalencies and 14
  counters
• (c) 2013-14 five equivalencies and 14
  counters and
• (d) 2014-15 and thereafter six equivalencies
  and 14 counters.
• Effective August 1, 2011.

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Sand Volleyball (continued)

• For institutions that do not sponsor womens
  volleyball,
• Eight equivalencies and 14 counters.
• A counter who participates (practices or
  competes) in womens volleyball and one or more
  other sports shall be a counter in womens
  volleyball.

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Sand Volleyball (continued)

• If SA is a counter in sand volleyball during her
  initial year of enrollment and participates in
  womens volleyball during her second year of
  enrollment,
• She is a counter in womens volleyball for her
  initial year of enrollment.

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Case Study Hayden

• Freshman sand volleyball SA at Big Time
  University.
• Partial athletics scholarship.
• Competes only in sand volleyball as a freshman.

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Case Study Hayden (continued)

• In what sport will Hayden count during her
  freshman year?
• Sand volleyball. Because she participated only
  in sand volleyball, she is not a counter in
  womens volleyball.

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Case Study Hayden (continued)

• During her sophomore year, Hayden competes in
  sand volleyball and also practices with the
  womens volleyball team.

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Case Study Hayden (continued)

• Is Hayden a counter in womens volleyball during
  her sophomore year?
• Yes. If Hayden practices or competes with the
  womens volleyball team, she will be a counter in
  womens volleyball.
• How does this affect Haydens freshman year?
• The institution will have to go back and count
  Hayden in womens volleyball for her freshman
  year.

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Case Study Hayden (continued)

• If Hayden does not practice with womens
  volleyball team until her Junior year, does she
  become a counter in womens volleyball at that
  point?
• Yes. A counter who participates (practices or
  competes) in womens volleyball and one or more
  other sports shall be a counter in womens
  volleyball.

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Case Study Hayden (continued)

• Does this affect Haydens freshman year?
• No. The additional restriction will not apply to
  a counter in sand volleyball who participates in
  womens volleyball after her second year of
  full-time enrollment.

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Guest Presenter
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Guest Presenter Contact Information

• Mike Scott, Texas Christian University.
• Financial Aid Director.
• Email m.scott_at_tcu.edu.
• Jevita Rogers, George Mason University.
• Director of Student Financial Aid.
• Email jdefreit_at_gmu.edu.

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Questions for Guest Presenter?
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Recent Interpretation
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Indirect Written Offer of Aid Before Signing
Date

• Prior to August 1 of a prospects senior year, an
  institution is prohibited from
• Providing a written offer of athletics aid or
• Indicating in writing that it will offer
  athletics aid.

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Indirect Written Offer of Aid Before Signing
Date (continued)

• Applies to direct and indirect communication.
• Cannot provide the written offer or indication
  through
• The prospect,
• Relatives,
• Friends,
• High school, preparatory school, two-year college
  coach or
• Any other individual responsible for teaching or
  directing an activity in which a prospect is
  involved.
• Bylaw 13.9.2.2 and an official interpretation
  (3/4/11, Item No. 2)

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NCAA Division I Awards, Benefits, Expenses and
Financial Aid Cabinet (ABEFA) Update
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ABEFA Cabinet Update

• Continuing its review of current head count and
  equivalency designations and limitations.
• Sponsoring legislation to remove teammate
  restriction on providing expenses to SAs in cases
  involving death or a life-threatening injury or
  illness of a SA or a SAs family or legal
  guardian.
• Affects Bylaws 16.6.1.3 and 16.6.1.3.1.

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Review

• Adopted legislation.
• Womens sand volleyball.
• Guest presenter.
• Recent interpretation.
• ABEFA Cabinet Update.

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Questions?