<p>Does someone who hopes to compete as a lightweight rower in college need to register with the ncaa clearinghouse? </p>
<p>I guess my question is multifaceted in that first off, does someone who is not sure they will be competing in American college athletics register? Secondly, my understanding being that lwt. rowing is not under the ncaa, do (female) lightweight athletes need to register at all? </p>
<p>My guidance counsellor seems to think I need to (but doesn't really differentiate between lwt. and hwt. rowing). A big thanks to anyone who can clear this up for me.</p>
<p>If you think you might row in the US, then you need to register with the NCAA Clearinghouse. My understanding is that many colleges require athletes to register whether their sport is an NCAA sport or not, ie. Mens Rowing. Many lightweight rowing programs are a subset of the Varsity team, so you would need to go through the Clearinghouse to be eligible for those teams. It is not a big deal to register, why is it a discussion?</p>
<p>I was asking largely because I wasn’t sure what the protocol was for someone who is not 100% sure that they’ll be rowing in the US. Add that lwt. rowing is not even under the ncaa and hopefully you understand my confusion. </p>
<p>Thank you very much for clearing that up for me! I’ll be sure to register.</p>
<p>It seems pretty clear that you don’t need to. My son is in the middle of the lightweight process and has gone on multiple Officials. He’s not registered with the NCAA and it simply has never come up.</p>
<p>FWIW, I also don’t believe that Lightweight rowing is considered a “subset of the varsity team” as someone on this thread suggested. The two sports are entirely separate with different recruiting pools, different head assistant coaches, etc. Both lights and heavies have their own separate varsity, jv and freshman/novice boats, etc.</p>
<p>rowdad–several schools DD is in contact with would NOT talk to her, AT ALL, until she registered with the NCAA. It’s possible that the schools your son is talking to do not care, but it is not clear cut one way or another. It’s best to register just to be sure. Besides, as a senior in high school, HE NEEDS to get registered so the school can send transcripts and he can get his test scores in.</p>
<p>Men’s rowing is NOT an NCAA sport, but women’s rowing is. </p>
<p>There are women’s programs that have have both open weight and lightweight squads. Sometimes the squads are totally separate, MIT for example, and sometimes not, Bucknell. In both cases for women, you need to register with the NCAA Clearinghouse in order to proceed with the recruiting process. All of the schools (MIT etc) that we looked at wanted the NCAA Clearinghouse #.</p>
<p>While the ltwt championship is the IRA’s, these women rowers can still be on a team that has mixed squads and possibly be in open weight boats. Bucknell was proud to say that they had a ltwt that was part of their varsity 8+ that won 4 Patriot League Championships.</p>
<p>Rowdad, men’s rowing is not an NCAA sport, therefore your son’s experience has little baring on the OP, a female rower. I stand by my statement that she should register, it is relatively painless and there is no downside. Better safe than sorry and scrambling to get it done at the last minute. One of the first questions asked of my daughter during her recruiting process was if she had registered with the Clearinghouse. I also stand by my statement that lightweight rowing for women is a subset of the varsity squad at many schools, if they field a lightweight boat at all. There are only a few schools that have full women’s lightweight teams, with separate head coaches, asst coaches, etc. There are also some club lightweight programs, ie. Cal Berkely.</p>
<p>There is something very strange going on with posting. My last posting was done on 10/8/12 at 12:28pm and should have followed SteveMA’s posting???</p>
<p>Every coach who scheduled lightweight D’s OV’s required her NCAA number before she visited campus (even though women’s lightweight rowing isn’t an NCAA sport). And she certainly had to complete the NCAA process (sending in end-of-senior year transcript, proof of graduation, declaration of amateur status, etc.) before she could row at her college.</p>
<p>P.S. These were all schools with separate women’s lightweight squads/teams.</p>
<p>Who needs to be certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse?
All freshman and two-year college transfers who do not have an associate degree and would like to participate in any sport at an NCAA member institution (Division I or II) must register for the academic portion of the Clearinghouse.</p>
<p>Actually,I’ve just remembered that this is what we heard when D started the recruiting process: that though a female lightweight rower, she would need to register with the NCAA because the DI schools she was looking at were NCAA member institutions.</p>
<p>I agree that the O/P should register with the Clearinghouse.
But relatively painless is certainly the operative phrase.</p>
<p>The site itself says it can take up to two hours to complete the “form” and that is about how long it took for us.
One needs to list and give information about previous schools one has attended.
My D has lived overseas and attended lots of different schools (which also don’t follow the same structure as Americam HSs).
And the wording of some of the questions makes little or no sense - “Did you receive a ‘document’ from this school.” What document?</p>
<p>Something else you see very little mention of on the NCAA sites - it costs money!
It’s about $120 - $140 to register.</p>
<p>GolfFather, you may have noticed this as you made your way through the NCAA thicket, but in case you didn’t:</p>
<p>When your daughter graduates, she’ll have to contact the high schools she attended and have each one send a transcript to the NCAA (we went through this ourselves, D having transferred from one high school to another after freshman year). One of the regulations…</p>
<p>The NCAA eligibility center clearly states that eligibility registration cannot be complete unless payment has been received. The cost is $70.00 for U.S. citizens and $120.00 for international students.</p>
<p>Elileo - Did your D directly submit her SAT/ACT scores to the NCAA Clearinghouse at the time of testing?</p>
<p>Wow, that’s interesting.
My D paid with her own credit card and told me it was $120.
I’m going to ask her what happened.</p>
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<p>Apparently, if one has gone to a school overseas, the form automatically considers the applicant to be an “international student” and cannot change the $120 fee.</p>