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“You may have heard that the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I recently adopted a new eligibility policy that uses age and number of active years of competition to determine athlete eligibility. There are details and nuances that I will not address here, but the overall effect of the standard is that student athletes will now have up to five years of eligibility instead of four. After the Division I decision, Division II followed suit, and now, as is often the case, the same issue is coming to Division III.

In short order, we will be asked whether we wish to shift to a five-year eligibility window, and a division-wide vote on the matter will most likely occur at the NCAA Convention in January.

Having served on the Division III President’s Advisory Group for several years and seen related matters come before the body, I am strongly opposed to moving to a five-year standard. Let me explain why.”