Students wanting to play college sports at a NCAA or NAIA affiliated DI or DII school will need to register with NCAA eligibility center, or NAIA (see links below) and meet eligibility requirements. You will also need to send your ACT/SAT test scores directly to them when you test, as you would a college (NCAA code 9999). Please see Miss Poe with questions, or to check your eligibility.
Timeline for NCAA Eligibility
(information from ncaa.org)
Grade 9
(information from ncaa.org)
Grade 9
- Ask your counselor for a list of your high school’s NCAA core courses to make sure you take the right classes. (See full list below)
- Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center at eligibilitycenter.org.
- Check with your counselor to make sure you will graduate on time with the required number of NCAA core courses.
- Take the ACT or SAT and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.
- At the end of the year, ask your counselor to upload your official transcript to the NCAA Eligibility Center.
- Finish your last NCAA core courses.
- Take the ACT or SAT again, if necessary, and submit your scores to the NCAA using code 9999.
- Complete all academic and amateurism questions in your NCAA Eligibility Center account at eligibilitycenter.org.
- After you graduate, ask your counselor to submit your final official transcript with proof of graduation to the NCAA Eligibility Center.
Division I academic eligibility
To be eligible to compete in NCAA sports during your first year at a Division I school, you must graduate high school and meet ALL the following requirements:
To be eligible to compete in NCAA sports during your first year at a Division I school, you must graduate high school and meet ALL the following requirements:
- Complete 16 core courses:
- Four years of English
- Three years of math (Algebra 1 or higher)
- Two years of natural/physical science (including one year of lab science if your high school offers it)
- One additional year of English, math or natural/physical science
- Two years of social science
- Four additional years of English, math, natural/physical science, social science, foreign language, comparative religion or philosophy
- Complete 10 core courses, including seven in English, math or natural/physical science, before your seventh semester. Once you begin your seventh semester, you may not repeat or replace any of those 10 courses to improve your core-course GPA.
- Earn at least a 2.3 GPA in your core courses.
- Earn an SAT combined score or ACT sum score matching your core-course GPA on the Division I sliding scale, which balances your test score and core-course GPA. If you have a low test score, you need a higher core-course GPA to be eligible. If you have a low core-course GPA, you need a higher test score to be eligible.
Division II academic eligibility To be eligible to compete at Division II schools, incoming student-athletes must complete these 16 core courses:
- 3 years of English
- 2 years of math (Algebra I or higher)
- 2 years of natural/physical science (1 year of lab if offered by high school)
- 3 years of additional English, math or natural/physical science
- 2 years of social science
- 4 years of additional courses (from any area above, foreign language or comparative religion/philosophy)
- Beginning Aug. 1, 2018, you must earn at least a 2.2 GPA in NCAA core courses along with the corresponding required test score to compete in Division II sports as a college freshman.
- To be able to practice and receive a scholarship, you must earn at least a 2.0 GPA along with the corresponding required test score in NCAA-approved core courses.
- Only NCAA-approved core courses will be used in the GPA calculation when determining eligibility. Those courses can be found here.
- A sliding scale is used to match test scores and core GPAs
- Only the critical reading and math portions of the SAT will be considered for eligibility purposes. The writing score will not be used.
- Only the sum of English, math, reading and science ACT scores will be considered for eligibility purposes.
- A sliding scale is used to match test scores and core GPA
ILHS NCAA Approved courses
(Honors) English 12
American Literature
English 10
English 10 Adv
English 11
English 12
English 9
European Literature
Journalism
American Government
American Government Adv
American History
American History Adv
Civil War
Current Issues
Ohio History
Psychology
Sociology
World History
World History Adv
Algebra I
Algebra II A (0.5)
Algebra II Adv
Algebra II B (0.5)
Calculus
Geometry
Geometry Adv
Pre-Calculus
Statistics and Trigonometry
Astronomy & Meteorology
Biology
Biology Adv
Chemistry
Chemistry II
Environmental Science
Human Biology
Physical Science
Physical Science Adv
Physics
Spanish I
Spanish II
Spanish III
Spanish IV
American Literature
English 10
English 10 Adv
English 11
English 12
English 9
European Literature
Journalism
American Government
American Government Adv
American History
American History Adv
Civil War
Current Issues
Ohio History
Psychology
Sociology
World History
World History Adv
Algebra I
Algebra II A (0.5)
Algebra II Adv
Algebra II B (0.5)
Calculus
Geometry
Geometry Adv
Pre-Calculus
Statistics and Trigonometry
Astronomy & Meteorology
Biology
Biology Adv
Chemistry
Chemistry II
Environmental Science
Human Biology
Physical Science
Physical Science Adv
Physics
Spanish I
Spanish II
Spanish III
Spanish IV