Recruiting

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 generally provide to prospective students. You become a recruited prospective student-athlete if any coach or representative of the college’s athletic 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;
Visiting you or any other member of your family anywhere other than the college campus.

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