Over the last few years, there has been a distinct shift in the way college soccer rosters have been constructed.
Experience has been the name of the game.
This, of course, continues to be part of the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, which erased the majority of collegiate competition in 2020, as the world battled the health crisis. In reaction to the pandemic, the NCAA made the decision to not count the disrupted year of competition against players’ eligibility.
It has allowed players whose college careers were halted by the pandemic to receive an extra year of eligibility, giving them the opportunity to play a fifth year of college athletics, if they so choose. However, the Ivy League decided in the spring of 2020 not to allow athletes to have an additional year of eligibility as graduates.