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Definition of Athletic’s Representative
A “representative of the institution’s athletics interests” is an individual who is known by a member of the institution’s executive or athletic administration to:
- have participated in or to be a member of an agency or organization promoting the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program;
- have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of that institution;
- be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospects;
- be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families;
- have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution’s athletic program.
Once an individual is identified as such a representative, the person retains that identity indefinitely.
Representative of athletics interests may not:
- make recruiting contact with a prospect;
- make special arrangements of entertainment for recruiting purposes;
- provide extra benefits to a prospect, an enrolled student-athlete, or to the family of prospects or student-athletes.
Who Is A Prospective Student-Athlete
A prospective student-athlete is a student who has started classes for ninth grade. An individual remains a prospective student-athlete until one of the following occurs (whichever is earlier):
- the individual officially registers and enrolls in a minimum full-time program of studies and attends classes in any term of a four year collegiate institution’s regular academic year, or
- the individual participates in a regular squad practice or competition at a four year collegiate institution that occurs before the beginning of any term.
What is an “extra benefit?”
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by a representative of the institution’s athletic interest to provide a student-athlete (or family) a benefit that is not generally available to other students (and their families).
