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PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETE QUESTIONNAIRE
PROSPECTIVE VOLLEYBALL STUDENT-ATHLETE QUESTIONNAIRE
PROSPECTIVE SOCCER STUDENT-ATHLETE QUESTIONNAIRE
PROSPECTIVE BASKETBALL STUDENT-ATHLETE QUESTIONNAIRE
PROSPECTIVE GYMNASTICS STUDENT-ATHLETE INFORMATION
PROSPECTIVE SOFTBALL STUDENT-ATHLETE QUESTIONNAIRE
SPORTS INFORMATION SHEET FOR INCOMING STUDENT-ATHLETES
ATHLETIC TRAINING FORMS FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES
NCAA
Eligibility
The NCAA Eligibility website provides prospective student-athletes
with a wealth of information regarding any number of eligibility-related
topics. Visit the
official NCAA website for more information.
General
You become a "prospective student-athlete" when you start ninth-grade
classes. Before the ninth grade, you become a prospective student-athlete
if a college gives you (or your relatives or friends) any financial aid or other
benefits that the college does not provide to prospective students generally.
You
become a "recruited prospective student-athlete" at
a particular college if any coach or representative of the
college's athletics interests
(booster or representative) approaches you (or any member of your family)
about enrolling and participating in athletics at that college. Activities
by coaches
or boosters that cause you to become a recruited prospective student-athlete
are:
• Providing you with an official visit;
• Placing more than one telephone call to you or any other member of your
family; or
• Visiting you or any other member of your family anywhere other than the
college campus.
In
addition, no alumni or representatives of a college's athletics
interests (boosters or representatives) can
be involved in off-campus
recruiting;
however, you may receive letters from boosters, faculty members,
students and coaches
on or after September 1 of your junior year. In all sports telephone
calls from coaches and faculty members are permissible on or after
June 15 before
your senior year.
After
this, a college coach or faculty member is limited to one
telephone call per week to you (or your parents
or legal guardians),
except
that unlimited calls to you (or your parents or legal guardians)
may be
made under the following
circumstances:
• During the five days immediately before your official visit (by the college
you'll be visiting);
• On the day of the coach's off-campus contact with you; and
• On the initial date for signing the National Letter of Intent in your
sport through the two days after the initial signing date.
Coaches
may accept collect calls and use a toll-free (1-800) number
to receive telephone calls from you (or your parents
or legal
guardians) at
any time.
Enrolled
students (including student-athletes) may not make recruiting
telephone calls to you unless the calls
are made
as a part of
an institution's regular
admissions program directed at all prospective students.
Enrolled students (including student-athletes) may receive
telephone
calls at your expense
on or after July 1 before your senior year.
You
(or your family) may not receive any benefit, inducement
or arrangement such as cash, clothing, cars, improper
expenses, transportation,
gifts or loans to encourage you to sign an institutional
or conference letter
of intent
or
to attend an NCAA school.
A college coach may contact you in person off the college
campus but only on or after June 15 before your senior
year.
Any
face-to-face meeting between a coach and you or your parents,
during which any of you say more than "hello" is
a contact. Furthermore, any face-to-face meeting
that is prearranged, or occurs at your high school
or at any competition
or practice site is a contact, regardless of the
conversation. These contacts are not permissible "bumps."
In
all sports, coaches may contact you off the college campus
three times. However, a coach may visit
your high school
(with your high-school
principal's
approval) only once a week during a contact period.
An
evaluation is any off-campus activity used to assess your
academic qualifications or athletics
ability,
including a
visit to your
high school (during which
no contact occurs) or watching you practice or
compete at any site.
In
all sports, coaches may evaluate you an unlimited number
of times.
In
basketball, there are specified periods when a coach
may contact
you off the
college campus and/or
attend your
practices
and
games to
evaluate your athletics ability.
Recruiting Calendars
Recruiting Definitions
Contact period - permissible for authorized athletic department staff members to make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations.
Dead period - not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus or permit official or unofficial visits.
Evaluation period - permissible for authorized athletics department staff to be involved in off-campus activities to assess academic qualifications and playing abililties. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts with a prospect are permitted.
Quiet period - permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution's campus.
Official
Visits
During your senior year,
you can have one expense-paid
(official)
visit to
a particular
campus. You
may receive no more than
a total of five
such visits.
This restriction applies
even if
you are being recruited
in more than one
sport.
A college
may not give you
an official visit
unless you
have provided
it with
a PSAT, ACT or SAT score
from a test taken on a
national testing date under national
testing conditions.
During
your official visit (which may not exceed
48 hours), you
may receive
round-trip
transportation
between
your
home (or high
school)
and the campus,
and you (and your parents)
may receive meals and
lodging. You
also may receive
three complimentary
admissions
to campus athletics
events. In addition,
a
student host may help
you (and your family) become
acquainted
with
campus life. The
host may spend $30 per
day to cover costs of
entertaining you (and your parents,
legal
guardians or spouse);
however, the
money cannot
be used
to purchase
college souvenirs such
as T-shirts or other
college mementos. Printed
Materials
A Division II college recruiting
you may provide to you
printed recruiting materials
on or after
September 1
at the beginning
of your junior
year.
In
addition, a Division II college may show
you a highlight
film/videotape,
but may not
send
it to
you or leave
it with you or your
coach.
Finally,
a Division II college also may
provide
you with
a questionnaire,
camp brochure and
educational information
published
by the NCAA
(such as this guide)
at any time.
(Information
taken from the NCAA's on-line Division
II
Recruiting
Guide.)
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