King College Academic Standing

The first rule of NCAA eligibility for competition is that a student-athlete must be in good academic standing with his or her institution.

The King College Academic Standards Committee has established the attached definition for students to be in good academic standing with the College.

registrar.king.edu/fileadmin/Sites/Documents/Registrar/AcademicStanding.pdf

Academic records of all students are reviewed at the end of each semester.  A student who meets all the listed requirements for grade point average and semester hours passed will be considered to be in good academic standing.

For those students not meeting those requirements, academic standing may fall into three categories of Academic Concern, Academic Probation and Academic Suspension.

Under the King College definition, a student-athlete would be eligible to compete if he or she falls into the Academic Concern category, assuming they meet the basic NCAA rules for eligibility (see below).  Student-athletes will not be eligible to compete if they fall into the categories of Academic Probation or Academic Suspension.

Basic NCAA rules for eligibility:

1. Student-athlete must be in good academic standing with the institution.
2. S-A must be enrolled as a full-time student.
3. S-A must have passed six hours in the preceding academic term in which they were enrolled full time.
4. S-A must pass twenty-four (24) hours from the start of the previous school year through the completion of the following summer term.
5. S-A must pass 75% of the twenty-four (24) hours in the regular school year and no more than 25% in the summer term.
6. S-A must have attained 1.800 GPA after 24 completed hours, 1.900 after 48 completed hours, and 2.000 after 72 completed hours.
7. S-A must designate a degree by the start of their fifth semester.