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4. Eligibility – NSSA

The quest for a Sport Scholarship

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4.A. NCAA

In the following section, we guide you through the NCAA eligibility process. Something that is crucial for your participation in collegiate sports. This step is a necessity for all prospective student athletes joining or transferring to an NCAA member school. The process can seem complex, but with your active participation we can make it manageable.

You will be asked to answer questions, review selected materials and submit relevant documents. These steps ensure that you meet all requirements and regulations necessary to participate in collegiate sports as an international student-athlete under NCAA rules.

The first thing you need to do is create your profile with the NCAA Eligibility Center. We’ll help you with that in the video below.

Creating an NCAA profile

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In the video, we help you apply for NCAA Eligibility. This is something all future NCAA student athletes needs to do.
You will be asked to answer questions and fill in information about your academic and sporting history. All of this helps to show that you meet all the rules and requirements for international students to participate in NCAA collegegiate sports.

Link to NCAA - Eligibility Center

Tasks on your NCAA Profile

Once you have created your profile with the NCAA and access your profile page, you will be presented with a series of tasks to complete.
Some of the assignments simply require you to read and confirm that you have read various materials sent to you by the NCAA. Other tasks require you to submit academic documents and answer various questions.

Examples of all the tasks you may encounter and instructions for answering them can be found below:

The name and ID you need through the NCAA process can be found in the top right corner of your profile as shown in the image below.

Click Confirm when you have read the instructions.

In this assignment, all your school grades from 9th grade up to your upper secondary school leaving certificate in your language and English must be uploaded.
It must be sent directly from your former school institution to NCAA via ec-processing@ncaa.org. In addition, it is very important that you get the school to put your name and NCAA ID# in the subject line of the email.

What needs to be sent:
♦ Year 9 transcripts in your language and English
♦ If applicable, any additional school years between year 9 and 10 in your language and English If available
♦ Year 10 transcripts in your language and English Also for unfinished courses
♦ Year 11 transcripts in your language and English Also for unfinished courses
♦ Year 12 transcripts in your language and English – If you haven’t finished, you should send temporary year grades
♦ Proof of graduation in your language and English

NOTE: If you have attended a 2-year hgih school, you should ask the school to split the grades from each year, even if all grades are on the diploma.

Click Confirm when you have read the instructions.

Click Confirm when you have read the instructions.

Tap the green button that says ‘Request Final Amateurism’

Before you apply, make sure you don’t have an agent on your stated anywhere online.
In addition, you should have a meeting with one of us at NSSA to go through your profile before submitting your application.

You will receive an email reminder to apply for amateurism status.
If it’s a winter start, you will receive the email on October 1st .
If it’s a summer start, you will receive the email on April 1st .

Download and fill in Team Participation Form

Ignore NCAA if they ask for club documents like contracts, license, etc.

Send the completed form to acp-processing@ncaa.org and include your name and NCAA ID in the subject line.

Again, you will need to send an email to the NCAA.
Copy and paste questions 1 and 3 into the email and answer them as shown below.

1. Please scan and email all documents and agreements you or your parents signed with Gustav Fink-Jensen. If any documents and agreements are not written in English, please provide English translations of those items along with the original language copies.

Answer: I have attached the contract (Attach our cooperation agreement)


3. How much money did you pay for these services and when did you pay?

Answer: 28,000 DKK

Would any portion of the fee be refunded if you did not receive a scholarship offer?

Answer: There was no refund included in the service.

Was any amount due after you received a scholarship offer?

Answer: The service fee was invoiced on the date we started the process.

If you did not pay for these services, please explain in detail why not.

Answer: I paid for the full service.
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The email can be sent to acp-processing@ncaa.org. Remember to include your Name and NCAA ID in the subject line of the email.

You will face this task if the NCAA needs one of your transcripts to complete their verification process.

You will encounter this task if the NCAA is missing transcripts in English.
In the email itself, you should be able to see which document is being referred to.

Keep in mind that it still needs to be sent directly from the school of origin to the NCAA via ec-processing@ncaa.org

Approval of your athletic eligibility with the NCAA

Once all your tasks are marked with a √, as shown below, you can do nothing more than wait to apply for final amateur status.

When you receive an email about applying for amateur status

Once all tasks on your NCAA profile are completed, you will be prompted via email to apply for final amateurism status.

  • If you start in winter you will receive the email at Oktober 1st
  • If you start in the fall you will receive the email at April 1st

Do NOT apply for amateur status until we have reviewed your profile and made sure everything is in order. Therefore please let us know when you receive your email.

What an approved profile looks like

There will always be a wait for your final approval after you have completed all tasks and applied for final amateur status. WHEN you have been approved for NCAA eligibility, your status will be updated on the front page of your profile page as shown in the image below:

You must have “Final Qualifier” and “Final: Certified” in Academic and Amateur status respectively. Once you have this, you’re ready to head over to your school and train and compete with ease.

IMPORTANT – Let us know if you have an untraditional high school timeline.
If your timeline is longer or shorter than what is normal in tour country, this document can help you in the eligibility proces. Just let us know that this is the case.
There’s no problem with that – it just changes the things you need to submit a little bit.

4.B. NAIA

In the following section, we guide you through the application process for an athletic license in the NAIA. Something that is crucial for your participation in collegiate sports. This step is a necessity for all upcoming student athletes. The process may seem complex, but with your active participation, together we can make it manageable.

  • Diploma from upper secondary education in your language and English.

NAIA often likes to have your grades translated through INCRED.
This is because when we receive our diplomas in Denmark, they are translated via the official European grading system, ECTS. It is NOT comparable to the US grading system.

Creation of a NAIA profile

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The first thing you need to do is create your profile with theNAIA Eligibility Center. We’ll help you with that in the video above.

Link to MyNAIA

Academic approval through INCRED

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As part of your academic accreditation with the NAIA, an external evaluation company will review and approve your grades. In the video, we explain more about this process and help you get it done.

Once you have created your Eligibility profile with NAIA ( You did this in step 4.B), after a few days you will receive emails directly from NAIA with a link to INCRED where you can upload your documents and be finally approved in the association.

4.C. NJCAA

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The licensing process in the NJCAA is EVEN simpler than the NCAA and NAIA.
The NJCAA requires the following documents to finalize your athletic eligibility:

  • Diploma from upper secondary education in your language and English.

Simply send your certificate of graduation directly to the given college.
Should any other issues arise regarding NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA, please contact us so we can help you in the best possible way to get approved as soon as possible. It’s important to emphasize that these processes should be done well in advance and preferably as soon as possible so that we don’t end up with schools on summer vacation.

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