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During the 2015-2016 indoor season, Todd took the online class Scientific Racism, a three-credit course meant to fulfill an elective requirement. According to Todd, the class was open from Thursday to Saturday, the window when all assignments were required to be submitted for a weekly grade.
Todd, a mainstay of the Oregon travel squad, knew she would be traveling with the track team nearly every weekend from Thursday through Saturday. To accommodate for the schedule conflict, she asked the professor if she could submit her assignments at a later date.
According the Flotrack article, the class was open from Thursday to Saturday which is the same travel time to meets every week. This was not a good idea.
It would have been wiser to choose another course maybe one that was open Monday to Thursday. School administrators should have prevented this.
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The NCAA states she competed in four contests while ineligible. Oregon later discovered the grade change and rescinded the grade and her degree.
Those four meets may have given her times in the 100m and 4x100m and long jump to qualify for the NCAA track west regionals that denied someone eligible from making NCAA regionals in these events.
The violation is considered "Level II," which is considered a significant breach of conduct.
Oregon is set to contest the level of the violation. They have 90 days to provide data before the hearing. They also have to provide data for all sports.
It would very interesting to see how the NCAA will rule on this especially now that Oregon is a track powerhouse and attracted some of the top recruits
