At 02:20 PM 1/18/03 -0500, Thom Davis wrote:
>I believe that I heard Bob Norton say
>on the Ch. 11 broadcast that Ed Caron was returning to UNH this spring
>semester, and could resume his hockey career at UNH in January 2004. Ed
>left UNH for Yale last summer at the end of his freshman year; I believe
>that I read somewhere that he was looking for a greater academic
>challenge. He will have missed three semesters of college hockey, but I am
>wondering if he could stay on to make up some of that ice time as a
>graduate student?

Yes he could.  By NCAA rules, an athlete has four years, or eight
semesters, of eligibility and five years in which to use them; thus, the
practice (primarily in football) of red-shirting true freshmen and still
having them play for four years.  The five-year clock starts with the
athlete's matriculation at a college; in Caron's case, he'll wind up with
only seven semesters total of eligibility over the five years, having had
to sit out three because of the two transfers.  But there's no reason why
he couldn't graduate on time and then go for an advanced degree in his
final semesters of eligibility.  There have certainly been college hockey
players who were in graduate school while on their team.  I believe RPI's
Joe Juneau finished his undergraduate work in three years and during his
"senior" season was actually in grad school.
Bill Fenwick                                                 DJF   5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95                                          JCF   12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!
My wife says I pay more attention to hockey than I do to our marriage, which
is of course ridiculous... after all, we've been together for 11 seasons...