The administrative error for which the NCAA has taken all the titles and victories from two Spanish tennis players

An athlete studying at a university in the

usually has a partial or full scholarship to pursue their academic career.

Circumstance that the athlete compensates his '

' with a sports performance that allows the organization to become known at the national level.

It is the game between the mouse and the cat.

Or between the ant and the giant.

The athlete benefits from the resources granted by the university to improve their sports career, while the student organization, and rather the

(National University Sports Association) receives billions of dollars every year for sponsorships and television rights .

Money that athletes, stars of each of those moments, only 'see' in the form of an academic scholarship.

It is important to summarize this framework to understand the strange case of the Spanish

, two young people from Las Palmas and Murcia who studied and played tennis at the

between 2014 and 2017, who won the title of their conference in their last year and now they observe how

and triumphs for a small administrative error of their University worth ...

.

126 dollars that did not even go to his checking account, but is explained in a most bizarre circumstance.

"In 2015, two of our teammates went to live off campus, so the University gave them the money to cover room expenses. It's normal," Ana Yrazusta explains to EL MUNDO by phone.

"And it turns out that in an internal audit carried out months ago, the University discovered that an extra

in that payment

, destined to make a

. The worker who had to pay them had added by error 126 dollars ".

The University of

and the NCAA has imposed a

, but the big penalty is the trophies and titles of the tennis team in which these players competed with the two Spanish tennis players.

"They didn't give us money to win, so the only thing we had were the titles and the trophies.

" acknowledges Ana, who reflects: "What the NCAA comes to tell us is that we had a supposed advantage with those 126 dollars and that those players had to be sanctioned and not playing. "

The NCAA and fines

The clerical error also affected the

college

an estimated

and is causing quite a

, in what is seen as a small act of hypocrisy on the part of an NCAA that in in recent years it has been the protagonist of numerous serious corruption cases.

Far from a $ 126 mistake.

"Our university is going to fight to get our degrees back and we have created a petition for the case to be made known. The sanction is disproportionate and we are going to lose all our degrees due to a mistake by the university," says Ana.

The Spanish tennis players, who currently live in Spain, complain that

, such as that of the Christian University of Texas, which overpaid 33 athletes for 4 years by value of 20,000 euros, or that of the IUPUI (Indiana Purdue University), which did not supervise and erred in financial aid to 52 athletes worth $ 42,000.

"We know that

and we do not mean that. What we are saying is that that $ 126 has not given us any advantage to win. We are fighting a very big monster and the responsibility of the NCAA is to protect to his athletes, the message he sends is that you penalize the athlete for an error that is not his, "concludes Yrazusta.

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