Tech lineman receives transfer waiver
Georgia Tech offensive tackle Nick Brigham received good news Monday – he received a hardship waiver from the NCAA that will allow him to play this season instead of sitting out a year after transferring from Maryland in January.
The NCAA grants immediate eligibility to athletes transferring to be closer to home for reasons of family or medical hardship. Brigham, who left Maryland last September just after starting his true freshman year, said he left because his mother Mary Ellen was suffering from cancer and his father Neil had lost his job. Brigham is from Atlanta and attended the Marist School.
“It was a great relief,” Brigham said Monday. “All offseason, it was kind of a distraction to what I wanted to do and when I trained. Now that that’s out of the way, I can really just focus on the upcoming season and helping the team out the best I can.”
Brigham said his mother was “doing much better.”
The addition helps with the Yellow Jackets’ depth, which has taken some hits on the offensive line this camp. Brigham has been playing left tackle.
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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.
