Breaking: Spokane County Court rules in favor of Gonzaga’s Tyon Grant-Foster
By JAMES MADDEN
After a near three-hour meeting at the Spokane County Courthouse on Monday, Judge Marla Polin granted Gonzaga forward Tyon Grant-Foster an injunction, allowing him to play for Gonzaga this season, the Spokesman Review’s Theo Lawson first reported. Grant-Foster was recently denied eligibility by the NCAA, but quickly countered with a lawsuit, arguing for one more year of eligibility.
He has spent time at Kansas, DePaul and Grand Canyon. becoming a breakout player for GCU over the last two seasons. Grant-Foster has played just three full seasons at the collegiate level, appearing in just one game for DePaul during the 2021-22 season, in which he collapsed at halftime and was hospitalized with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, forcing him to miss about 16 months of play. Grant-Foster was told he may never play basketball again, but he was cleared to play in 2023 and transferred to Grand Canyon.
Grant-Foster’s attorneys cited many cases across the country where the NCAA granted athletes additional eligibility for other circumstances and argued that Grant-Foster’s should also be reviewed:
With the ruling, Grant-Foster will be immediately eligible to compete for Gonzaga this season. The Bulldogs are set to open their season against Texas Southern on Monday, November 3rd.
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