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If the surgery is done soon, would she be able to go on the Euro trip?
Season 24-25: she might well be entering her junior year academically...or close to it.
4 years of athletic eligibilty if the NCAA grants her 6 years to complete eligibility.
Might be in the same athletic eligibilty class with Allie and Morgan [and?].
Jana: be back better than ever. Everybody rootin'/tootin' for ya.
To be totally honest, losing a year of participation (not eligibility) was a concern of mine when Jana decided to come a year early & not play.
I felt that any potential injury could derail the length of her stay as a UConn player in future years, and now that possibility has become true.
The foreign players don't have the same NIL incentive to remain in college as US born players do.
And not every foreign player will want to spend 2 additional years living on the UConn campus & taking courses for 6 years if they can turn pro before then.
If she has any further injuries that could shorten her UConn career even more.
At this point I think that UConn fans will be lucky if she plays 3 years after this year.
I can see if she uses 1 red shirt year to complete her degree but not necessarily 2 unless she really wants a graduate degree instead of turning pro.
We have no way of knowing at this point but it's very possible that last year's redshirt season will never be made up with Jana continuing to play on the team for more than another 3 years because she came early & started taking courses.
Of course she may be able to stay & extend her career to 6 years but that's not the norm, especially if she becomes as good of a player as we'd like to believe.
Allowing athletes to come as early birds has opened up a proverbial can of worms for the 2nd time in recent years a la Saylor Poffenbarger.
And Aubrey may not exercise her final year of eligibilty either in a similar way due to having a covid & a red shirt year.
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