Destinee Hooker may join basketball squad

It's seems unlikely that Destinee would require a basketball scholarship. In men's sports, you cannot play football or basketball while on a scholarship for a non-revenue sport such as track (e.g. Jamaal Charles was on a football scholly but ran track for one season). Neither volleyball nor women's basketball was "revenue generating" last year. Given that criterion, it seems that Destinee may have walk-on status with basketball while on scholarship for volleyball.
 
^^^^ I don't think it works that way. I think the NCAA ranks the sports to prevent schools from using scholarships for lower ranked sports to be used for players of higher ranked sports. I'm pretty sure women's basketball is at the top of the list for women the way football is for men. If she's on an athletic scholarship and plays basketball, I think it counts against the scholarship limit for basketball.
 
The ncaa does rank all the sports. In womens sports basketball is ranked 1 and volleyball is number 2. I think softball is 3 and track 4 but i am not sure about those two.
 
You're right in that "revenue generating" is not the proper phrase. However, in Destinee's case, I think the distinction does matter. According to the NCAA link below, (you have to wade to the bottom of the page) both women's basketball and volleyball are "head count" sports, which means that they count for a full scholarship. Other sports, such as track, swimming, etc. are considered equivalency sports and their scholarships are apportioned among those teams' members. If she were on a track scholarship, an equivalent sport, Destinee could not participate in volleyball unless she counted as one their scholarship totals.

Since Destinee will participate in volleyball first, a head count sport, she will count as one of the 12 full scholarships they offer, not against the basketball total. The same applies when she competes on the track team. She has already been awarded a volleyball scholarship, so she does not count against the total in track.



List of Head Count versus Equivalency Sports
 
That link appeared to be about academic performance and the penalties invoked. You may be correct although i think i am right about the scholarship issue.
 
Several years ago, Holly Graham played for the basketball team after volleyball season ended without effecting the BB scholarship. Txex86 is correct, unless the rules have changed.
 
As it was mentioned above, Holly Graham started her athletic eligibility playing volleyball and ended with basketball, just as Heather Schrieber started with basketball and ended with volleyball. It doesn't seem as if it counts against a scholarship for the second sport.
 
Heather completed 4 seasons/years of basketball, and then played volleyball volleyball during the first semester of her fifth college year. She had to have been on a volleyball-only scholarship that last year.

I believe Holly Graham played 4 season/years of volleyball, but joined the basketball team the second semester of her her 4th year; believe she was still on a volleyball scholarship that last semester, despite deciding to play basketball that Spring.
 
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Will She still play Volleyball
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Would she be "changing" sports or would she be considered as competing in multiple sports, or does that even matter?
 
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