(07-08-2021, 08:25 PM)ColoradoTree Wrote: I don't think the extra covid-year scholarships work that way, but I could be wrong. I thought it was sort of a personal thing to the student-athlete, with the cap still at 8 scholarships but people who were already on the team in the spring of '20 can stay a fifth year if they want to. Sort of a "use it or lose it" thing rather than a temporary increase from 8 to 10 for a few years.
For a scholarship to be available for Xu, I think it would have to be someone who isn't staying for a fifth year leaving early (or medically retiring, which sounds like a possibility for Mossmer). But, again, I'm not positive on that score.
My understanding is that during 2021-2022 fall and winter sports can go over the scholarship caps by the number of sixth-year seniors that return, but that spring sports are subject to the usual hard caps. In 2022-2023 all sports return to the usual scholarship limits. So women's tennis being a spring sport that essentially played a full schedule (including conference and national championships) last year is hard capped at the usual eight scholarships.