Division I Camps and Clinics

1. Division ICamps and Clinics Presented to at All Staff meeting on January 7, 2009: Freemont Room of DuBois Center By Lynn Newson

2. I know Camps are painful, but it could be worse!

3. Overview • Institutional Camps and Clinics • Employment • Camp Admissions • Camp Brochures • Additional Considerations

4. Camps and Clinics • Two types of camps and clinics regulated by NCAA legislation. • Institutional. • Non-institutional.

5. Institutional Camps and Clinics NCAA Bylaw 13.12.1

6. Institutional Camps and ClinicsDefinition • Owned or operated by a member institution or its athletics department staff members. • In which prospective student-athlete’s participate. • May occur on or off an institution’s campus.

7. Institutional Camps and ClinicsDefinition • Football Exception: • On institution’s campus, within state in which the institution is located or, if outside the state, within a 50-mile radius of the institution’s campus.

8. Institutional Camps and ClinicsPurpose • Exception to the tryout rule. • Provides specialized instruction, practice or competition. • Places special emphasis on a particular sport. • Designed to improve overall skills and general knowledge in a sport.

9. Institutional Camps and ClinicsBasketball Educational Session • Required Educational Session: • May be in person or video format. • Must detail the following: • NCAA initial-eligibility standards; • Gambling, agents and drug use regulations.

10. Institutional Camps and ClinicsTime Period • Football: During two periods of 15-consecutive days during the months of June and July or any calendar week (Sunday through Saturday) that includes days of those months (e.g., May 28 through June 3). • Basketball: During the months of June, July and August. • Sports other than Football and Basketball: Anytime during the year. • NEVER during a DEAD period.

11. Institutional Camps and ClinicsAttendance Requirements • Open to any and all entrants (limited only by number and age). • May also be limited by grade and/or gender. • Student-athletes may not enroll in own institution’s camp or clinic. • Not permissible to limit the attendance based on skill level of the participants (e.g. elite athletes, letter award winners, high school varsity athletes).

12. Institutional Camps and ClinicsAttendance Requirements • Football - Senior prospective student-athletes may not enroll, participate or be employed. • Football. Impermissible for two-year or four-year college prospective student-athletes to participate in another institution’s camp or clinic. • If the student-athlete has asked for his permission to contact - treated as “senior prospect.”

13. Institutional Camps and ClinicsAttendance Requirements • Selected prospective student-athletes can be invited to attend an institution’s camp or clinic provided: • The camp or clinic is legitimately advertised making it open to all entrants (limited only by number, age, grade and/or gender).

14. Institutional Camps and Clinics Attendance Requirements • Sports other than Football: Permissible for two-year and four-year college prospective student-athletes to participate in another institution’s camp or clinic provided: • Open to all entrants (limited only by number, age, grade and/or gender). • Participant pays the established fee to attend. • Participant’s coach is not on camp staff.

15. Employment

16. Employment Athletics Staff Members • Athletics staff members may be involved in their own or other institutional camps or clinics. • Basketball Exception: Coaches and non-coaching staff members with basketball specific responsibilities may be employed only at his or her own institution’s camps or clinics.

17. EmploymentStudent-Athletes • Student-Athletes may do the following: • Perform general supervisory duties; • Must be paid the going rate; • May not be paid based on skill level; • May not be compensated if only lecturing or demonstrating; • May not conduct own camp or clinic; and • May receive travel expenses, only if expenses are provided for all employees.

18. EmploymentStudent-Athletes • Other Considerations: • Other than Football Bowl Subdivision, there is no limit on the number of student-athletes in a given sport who may be employed. • No practice activities outside of season.

19. EmploymentHigh School, Prep-School and Two-Year College Coaches • Must be paid going rate (e.g., teaching ability and camp experience). • May not be paid based on reputation or contact with prospective student-athletes. • May not be paid based on the number of campers the coach sends to the camp.

20. EmploymentProspective Student-Athletes • May not employ: • Athletics award winner; or • A prospect being recruited by your institution, even if not an athletics award winner. • Four-year college transfer student-athletes may not be employed. • Exception: Children of athletics staff members.

21. Camps Admissions

22. Camps AdmissionsFree or Reduced Admissions • It is impermissible to provide free or reduced admission privileges to an athletics award winner or a prospect being recruited by your institution. • Exceptions: • Children of coaches employed at camp and children of institutional staff members. • Group discounts.

23. Camp Brochures

24. Camp BrochuresMailings Camp brochures may be sent to prospective student-athletes anytime, including prior to the permissible recruiting materials date for a particular sport.

25. Camp BrochuresContents • Not restricted in content or design. • Brochures are restricted to a single, two-sided sheet, not to exceed 17” x 22” when opened in full. • Student-athlete’s name, picture and institutional affiliation may appear only in the camp counselor section to identify the student-athlete as a camp counselor. (Bylaw 12.5.1.7) • Rule applies to both institutional and noninstitutional brochures.

26. Camp BrochuresAdvertisement The brochure may not advertise the camp as an “elite” camp. The brochure cannot promote a camp in any way that implies a participant should possess a certain level of experience, skill or ability to attend the camp. Terms such as “beginning skills camp,” “high intensity,” or “full force” may be used.

27. Camp BrochuresAdvertisement • The camp may be advertised as a position camp provided no level or experience, skill or ability is explicitly or implicitly required or preferred. • Example: A basketball camp may be advertised as a “guard camp” but not an “elite guard camp” or “advanced guard camp.”

28. Additional Considerations

29. Now that it’s over, we can joke about it.

30. Additional Considerations • Recruiting: • Coaches are prohibited from recruiting (e.g., offering of financial aid) during the time period of camp. • Awards (prizes or apparel): • For institutional camps, must be included in participants’ admission fees.

31. Additional Considerations • Summer-Camp Advertisements: • Institutions may not buy or arrange to have its camp or clinic advertisements in game programs or other printed materials published to provide information concerning the athletics participation or evaluation of prospective student-athletes (i.e., recruiting publications).

32. Additional Considerations • Exceptions: • Advertisements may be placed in recruiting publications if placed in a periodical (other than a high school, two-year college or nonscholastic game program) that includes a camp directory. • Size (not to exceed one-half page) and format of advertisements are identical; • Camp directory must include multiple listings of summer camps on each page.

33. Q U E S T I O N S