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See the tabs at the top. 2024 players and College Coaches, after you log in you will be given access and see 2024 Teams and Tournament Schedules. Those are what you need for keeping organized for the 2024 Stars season. 

STARS CLUB 2024 AAU CODE IS:  W3C75Y

https://play.aausports.org/joinaau/membershipapplication

Please get your AAU membership for each player by going to aausports.org and make sure you sign up for the extended coverage (AB) insurance which costs $2 more as everyone on the team has to have that for anyone to get coverage from the insurance. You will be asked to give the AAU number to your coach via hard copy or email in early April.

 

If you have a story or pictures that you feel the others in the club would want to see please submit those to info@minnesotastars.org

Are YOU on track with the new NCAA requirements?

Ever hear your coaches or parents stress the importance of academics and making the proper grades to play a college sport? Well, it's more important than ever before as the NCAA has increased the requirements for high school athletes to qualify to play a college sport. Get with your high school counselor and map out a plan to keep you on track and keep your dream of playing a college sport alive. 

Starting with the Class of 2016  the changes are as follows;

Division I

• An athlete must finish 10 core classes before his/her senior year. Seven of the 10 courses must be successfully completed in English, math and science. See below for the definition of a core class.

• Athletes must have a minimum GPA of 2.3, up from 2.0.

• You can be an academic redshirt your freshman with a 2.0 GPA. You will only be able to practice with the team the first semester.

• Minimum GPA for junior college transfers increased to 2.5, up from 2.3.

For Division II, you have to have a minimum GPA of 2.0.

Along with GPA's, the NCAA takes into account your SAT and ACT scores as well. Here's how the NCAA incorporates standardize tests:

• Division I uses a sliding scale to match test scores and core grade-point averages (GPA).

• Division II requires a minimum SAT score of 820 or an ACT sum score of 68.

• The SAT score used for NCAA purposes includes only the critical reading and math sections. The writing section of the SAT is not used.

• The ACT score used for NCAA purposes is a sum of the following four sections: English, mathematics, reading and science.

For complete NEW NCAA Division I initial academic eligibility.

DIVISION I ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Students who enroll full time at an NCAA Division I school this fall 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 the start of the seventh semester. Once students begin their seventh semester, they must have more than 10 core courses completed to be able to repeat or replace any of the 10 courses used in the preliminary academic certification.
     
  • Earn at least a 2.3 GPA in their core courses.
     
  • Earn an SAT combined score or ACT sum score matching their core-course GPA on the Division I sliding scale, which balances their test score and core-course GPA. If students have a low test score, they will need a higher core-course GPA to be eligible. If they have a low core-course GPA, they will need a higher test score to be eligible.  

For more resources regarding these changes, visit 

NCAA.org/student-athletes/play-division-i-sports or the 

Division I Academic Requirements Guide.

 
TRANSCRIPT UPLOAD

To date, over 15,000 high schools have used the transcript upload feature for more than 325,000 transcripts. Encourage your student-athletes to have their counselor use this upload feature for all preliminary and final transcripts, as it significantly reduces processing time for student accounts. As a reminder, when students register with the NCAA Eligibility Center, the student must accept the Terms and Conditions, which provides broad permission for all schools to share official high school transcripts and academic records with the NCAA Eligibility Center.

In order for a student's academic certification to be processed, the student must have ACT or SAT scores submitted to the NCAA Eligibility Center directly from the testing agency. Click here for step-by-step instructions on how they can request to have their test scores sent.

Test scores on a high school transcript will not be used. Students may take the ACT or the SAT an unlimited number of times prior to full-time collegiate enrollment, and the best score will be used in the final academic certification. Test scores are matched to the student's NCAA Eligibility Center account by name, date of birth and address.

Note: If a student takes the current SAT before March 2016 and then takes the redesigned SAT, which will be offered beginning March 2016, the NCAA Eligibility Center will not combine section scores from the current and redesigned SAT when determining a student's initial eligibility. The NCAA Eligibility Center will only combine section scores from the same version of the test. Because the redesigned SAT varies in design and measures different academic concepts than the current SAT, a numerical score on the current test may not be equivalent to the same numerical score on the redesigned test.