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  • A red-shirt freshman is an athlete who has "sat out" a year. This usually occurs during their first year of college. An athlete has five years to make four years of actual playing. They may actually be a sophmore but eligibility-wise, they are considered freshmen.
  • they practice but don't play in any games. it's done so that the year will count (for NCAA purposes, I guess) as a year that the player was on the team even if they don't dress for games.
  • Redshirt is a term used in American college athletics. Typically, a student-athlete has four years of eligibility in a given sport, to coincide with the standard four-year calendar for obtaining a bachelor's degree. For various reasons, some student-athletes opt to not compete with the team for one of their four years attending a university but to only attend classes and practices with the team; this process is known as redshirting. The student-athlete does not use one of his or her four years of eligibility in that season. Using this mechanism, a student-athlete has up to five academic years to use the four years of eligibility, thus creating the phenomenon of "Fifth Year Seniors". However, each student-athlete has at most four years of actual competition with the varsity team. The term is often used as a verb: a coach may choose to redshirt a player, who is redshirted and will be redshirting that year. Source - Wikipedia
  • In College Sports you can paticpate in four years of any sport of your choice but some majours take more than four years so if you are Redshirted as a freshman you can practice with the team but you dont play so you are still eligible to participate in four more years in that sport the real famous redshirt example was MAtt Lienart for usc He played in one more year after his seinor year

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