<font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Physician Services
<font color="#990000">Medical Hardship Waiver</font></font></p> <p class="body-text9">Each student-athlete has five years from his/her initial date of full-time enrollment in which he/she may compete three years (partial or non-qualifiers) or four years (qualifiers).</p> <p class="body-text9">If a student-athlete competes during a season and is then injured to the point that he/she will not compete again that season, the student-athlete may regain the season of competition if all of the following conditions are met:
(a) The injury or illness suffered is incapacitating (i.e., season-ending); and
(b) The incapacitating injury or illness occurs in one of the four seasons of intercollegiate competition at any two year or four-year collegiate institution; and
(c) The injury or illness occurs prior to the completion of the first half of the playing season that concludes with the NCAA championship in that sport (measured by the number of scheduled contests or dates of competition) and results in an incapacity to compete for the remainder of the playing season; and
(d) The injury or illness occurs before the student-athlete has participated in more than two events or 20 percent (whichever number is greater) of the institution's scheduled events in his or her sport.</p> <p class="body-text9">Nature of Injury/Illness. It is not necessary for the incapacitating injury or illness to be the direct result of the student's participation in the institution's organized practice or game/competition. The student-athlete may qualify for the hardship waiver as a result of any incapacitating injury or illness occurring after the individual becomes a student- athlete by reporting on call for regular squad practice or after attending the first day of classes as a full-time student at a member institution.</p> <p class="body-text9">Re-injury in Second Half of Season. A student-athlete who suffers an injury in the first half of the season that concludes with the NCAA championship, attempts to return to competition during the second half of that season and then is unable to participate further as result of aggravating the original injury does not qualify for the hardship waiver.</p>