If you received an athletic scholarship, this is awarded on an annual basis and you can
get an athletic scholarship for a maximum of four years. Scholarships are usually
automatically renewed each year, if you do what is expected of you, athletically and
academically. Reasons for a possible non-renewal of scholarship are:
- Academic – you do not achieve NCAA/NAIA/NJCAA's minimum requirements for
ratings and credits. The minimum requirement is 2.0 in average rating (C-average)
and 24 credits per year.
- Behavior – if you break school or team rules your scholarship can be taken away.
- Sporting – if you are not even close to performing to what is expected of you then the
coach can reduce or not offer you the scholarship for the next school year. If you do
not go to training and give it 100%, those are reasons why a coach will not renew the
scholarship the next year. A scholarship will rarely be reduced if you are not
performing in the sports arena.
Academic scholarships require that you must maintain the schools' respective grade
point average that the academic scholarship states you have qualified for. If your GPA drops below the required number, your academic scholarship may be revoked the following semester.
There is also the opportunity to increase your academic and athletic scholarship based
on your achievements on the field and in the classroom. Any increase in athletic
scholarship is up to the coach to decide. But remember that if you do not ask, you will not
get. Feel free to talk to your placement person about how to speak with your coach after
the end of the season if you feel that you deserve an increased scholarship based on your
sporting performances.
Scholarship renewal is generally quite straightforward. The new scholarship documents
for the next school year (starting in August) will be signed in the spring semester.
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