NCAA Certified Events

1. NCAA Certified Events

2. NCAA Certification of Events Addresses: • Prospect health and wellness • Prospects missed class time in the fall and in January • Non-institutional camps • Recruiting calendar

3. How it works: • Follow existing legislation for Men’s and Women’s Basketball: www.ncaa.org/basketballcertification • All non-scholastic events must go through an online pre-approval process through the NCAA • All teams participating must be registered prior to participating in the certified event

4. How it works: • Athletic trainer on site • Background checks for all event operators and club coaches

5. How it works: • Online rosters must be updated ahead of time with unique email addresses and contact information for each prospect • College coaches can always attend scholastic events – scholastic events don’t need NCAA certification

6. What it looks like: • College coaches are at the events to EVALUATE not ‘recruit’ • No contact on site between college coaches and travel ball coaches/no recruiting coordinators talking to coaches • Div I coaches cannot attend non-certified events

7. What it looks like: • College coaches show up • Have a designated place to park • Evaluate games in designated viewing areas • Books contain updated/accurate information

8. What it looks like: • Games during academic periods cannot be played before Friday at 4p or after 8p on Sunday • Combines are allowed • Games, tournaments and leagues allowed

9. What it looks like: • Existing EVENT OPERATORS will continue to run events but will need to adapt their events to be NCAA Certified • An unlimited number events allowed to be operated on designated weekends

10. Positive Effects • Establishes a standardized and fair system for Div I college coaches, travel ball teams, and event operators • Prospects have a legitimate opportunity to practice, train and improve without the presence of Div I coaches • Travel ball coaches get to coach their teams instead of consuming themselves with the college placement pageantry

11. Positive Effects • Consolidation of events • College coaches can plan their evaluation schedules out in advance • Can’t have ‘side events’ spurred on at the last minute

12. Other Business • Camps and clinics • Keep going along the lines of regulating this • Div I College Coach employment at institutional camps • Must establish a window of time for sanctioned events (Dr. James Andrews – Periodization and overuse injuries) • Summer and Restricted Fall window

13. Things to Consider • Tournaments restrict distance between fields by a certain mile radius • Streamline the recruiting book across the board – every tournament must include the exact same information (same template for all events) • Use an online data entry system for all tournaments so data is available to college coaches real-time

14. Things to Consider • All teams have to pay the same entry fee (no good guy discounts) • Alter the MBB/WBB legislation to allow for some contact between college coach and club coach during events • Regulate the college coaches expenses to attend the event (no cost for entry and no cost for book)

15. Where Do We Go From Here? • HCC Reps and Working Group work with each conference and build momentum for proposal • Proposal submitted by April 2014 • Voted on by NCAA Rules Committee June/July 2014

16. Contact: Heather Tarr htarr@uw.edu Natalie Poole nmpoole1@memphis.edu