Coaches/Mentors on the Drive Team

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by wevets

At the Cascade Regional, I was told that at least one drive team, maybe two, had adult coaches/mentors on them in the analyst position. Is this legal?

The analyst should not be confused with the Human player that is functioning as a 4th analyst. In some cases there just isn't a 4th student up to the task or just a 4th student period. One of the teams on Olympic started 3 seasons ago with 3 students and 1 mentor so everyone was on the drive team. Last year they were at that same level. This year they managed to expand their program to 5 students!!! They also managed to be 5th seed!!!

Originally Posted by Mike Betts

You should have been able to look this up yourself... From Section 1, Page 9:

So we see that the ANALYST must be a pre-college student. The other alliance, if they knew the rules should have pointed this out to the referees.

JMHO,

Mike

If the analyst we are talking about is the 3rd human player, ie not the feeder then yes the are supposed to be a pre-college age students. However if we are talking about the regular long standing analyst position then a college age student mentor or adult mentor is perfectly legal.