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2022 Swammy Awards: U.S. Female Swimmer of the Year – Katie Ledecky

Ledecky’s year included sweeping the women’s 400, 800 và 1500 không lấy phí at the World Championships and shattering world records in short course meters.

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The NCAA Eligibility Center has announced it is extending the COVID-19 waiver that was first put into place in April 2020 in response to the disruptions to academic life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally meant khổng lồ provide relief for the high school class of 2020, its provisions were extended lớn the classes of 2021 và 2022 in April 2021. Now, student-athletes entering college in the 2023-24 school year will enjoy the same benefits.

The provisions of the waiver include:

SAT or ACT chạy thử scores: the NCAA Eligibility Center has eliminated the SAT/ACT score as a requirement of academic eligibility. With the pandemic raging in the spring of 2020, chạy thử centers closed and students were unable lớn sit for the required standardized tests. Universities responded by dropping testing requirements – some for a trial period, some permanently – & the NCAA quickly followed suit.

The NCAA Standardized thử nghiệm Score Task Force was established in April 2021 to lớn conduct a reviews of its testing requirements within the initial-eligibility process. It focused on (1) Initiatives lớn advance racial equity (a đánh giá of testing requirements had been identified as one of the NCAA’s eight action items khổng lồ advance racial equity in the summer of 2020); (2) Higher education’s shifting position on standardized tests for admissions processes; and (3) Ongoing NCAA Standards Evaluation.

In April 2022, the Standardized demo Score Task Force recommended the permanent removal of the test score requirement. Its recommendation will be voted on at the NCAA Convention, which will take place from January 11-14, 2023, in San Antonio, Texas.

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The NCAA is quick to point out that students may still need to lớn take the SAT for admission khổng lồ a particular college or university or for an academic scholarship that might complement an athletic grant, so it is up lớn the student lớn determine whether or not to take the test.

Without the SAT or ACT, together which with a student’s GPA used to lớn be the basis of a sliding scale of academic eligibility, the NCAA will now determine academic status by the GPA alone. Prospective student-athletes must achieve a GPA of 2.3 in the 16 bộ vi xử lý core courses for Division I & a 2.2 for Division II.

Distance or virtual learning: When schooling went online, the NCAA accepted courses taken in distance, e-learning or hybrid programs offered by their high schools, without doing a separate đánh giá of those programs. That directive will continue. “Students may complete their NCAA-approved core courses through the channels of instruction provided or recommended by their school, district or state department of education.”

Pass/fail grades: Pass/fail grades on a student’s transcript can only help the student. “If the student’s core-course GPA would increase by assigning a value of 2.300, this value will be assigned to the passed courses. However, if the student’s core-course GPA would decrease by including the 2.300 value for passed courses, the student’s core-course GPA will be calculated based only on courses with assigned letter grades from previous terms (credit from these courses will still be applied toward the student’s core-course requirements).” Before 2020, “pass” on a student’s transcript was treated as the high school’s lowest passing grade, most often a D, và was assigned a value of 1.0.

The virtual learning and P/F grades provisions will extend lớn freshmen & sophomores, as well. For example, any online classes and P/F grades on their transcript will still be treated favorably to the student through their graduation in 2025.