With College Sports Shut Down, NCAA Hopes To Give Senior Athletes A 2nd Chance
Student athletes normally are ineligible to continue playing after graduation. But with college careers cut short by the coronavirus, the NCAA may allow Division 1 seniors to play next year.
by Tom Goldman
Mar 20, 2020
3 minutes
Katie Hoeg dreamed about this season of lacrosse.
She's a senior attacker for the University of North Carolina women's team. This month, Hoeg became UNC's all-time leading scorer in a win over Northwestern. While she was proud of the record, it wasn't the dream. Winning a national championship was.
It was a reasonable goal, considering North Carolina made it to the Division 1 women's lacrosse Final Four the last two seasons. This season, the number one-ranked Tarheels were off to a good start. 6-0. Undefeated.
Until last
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