Guidance for Athletes

Sophomore Year: until June 15th of your Incoming Junior Year

Coaches are permitted to:

• Send you athletic or sports camp brochures, NCAA Educational Information and Questionnaires. 

Coaches are not allowed to:

• Accept phone calls or emails from prospective student-athletes - remember that if you leave a message on an answering service or send an email the coach is NOT ALLOWED TO CALL or Email YOU BACK.
• There can be no communication between a potential student athlete and coaches/athletic staff before June 15th of the conclusion of your Sophomore year.
• Coaches cannot call you on the phone or send you any written recruiting information.  They can, however, send you an athletics questionnaire.
• Coaches cannot talk with you or your parents at an event.

Athletes are permitted to:

• Go to a College Camp – But there can be no communication about recruiting, or offers Until After June 15th (Preceding your Junior Year). NO Recruiting Conversations are allowed!!!
• Go on a college visit through their admissions office. You cannot have any interaction with coaches during the visit.

Junior Year: from June 15th

• College coaches are allowed to send you information about their athletic program and about their school. This can include: media guides, schedule cards, personalized letters, photocopies of newspaper clippings and official university admissions and academic publications.
• The college coach is now allowed to answer your emails and send emails to you, as well.
• Coaches Can Now Text and Call you, and you can call Division 1 Coaches.

Junior year: (From August 1st) Through Senior Year

• Athletes can make unofficial (when you pay all expenses) visits to a college campus.
• Official visits (one per school) are paid for by the college. An athlete is allowed a maximum of five visits to Division 1 Colleges.