Coach’s Meeting

1. Coach’s Meeting

2. Volunteer Coach Involvement with Local Sports Clubs and Provision of Private Lessons (I) • Local Sports Club • A volunteer coach (other than basketball coaches) may be involved with a local sports club that is located in our area, provided all PSA’s live within a 50 mile radius of the institution and VU does not sponsor the club. • If a PSA lives outside the 50 mile radius, we must be the closest club to the PSA and that must be on file. • A PSA may not “temporarily relocate” within 50 miles to be involved in the club team.

3. Volunteer Coach Involvement with Local Sports Clubs and Provision of Private Lessons (I) • Private Lessons • It is not permissible for a volunteer coach to conduct any physical activity at which one or more prospective student-athletes reveal, demonstrate or display their athletics ability. • A volunteer coach is prohibited from teaching private lessons to any prospective student-athlete in the coach's sport, except women's golf and equestrian.

4. Institution's Coach Observing Prospective Student-Athletes While Acting in Capacity for Local Sports Club • We know the local sports club rules: • Any coach (except basketball) • 50 mile radius • Further, the local sports club legislation permits an institution's coach to perform legitimate duties that are consistent with his or her responsibilities with the local sports club, provided he or she is not engaged in any recruiting activities on behalf of the member institution in connection with those duties.

5. Is the institution charged with an evaluation any time the institution's coach observes prospective student-athletes participating in athletic activity while the coach is engaged in permissible activities with the local sports club?

6. No. For example, the institution does not use an evaluation for any PSA participating in competition against the local sports club team that the institution's coach is coaching. Further, any other contests that involve prospective student-athletes and are observed by the coaching staff member (e.g., scouting the club team's future opponents) would not count as an evaluation, provided observing the activity is a legitimate duty consistent with his or her responsibilities with the local sports club and is not evaluating on behalf of the institution.

7. Is an institution's coach permitted to engage in recruiting activities on behalf of the institution while the coach is receiving expenses from the local sports club?

8. No. An institution's coach who is receiving expenses from a local sports club for activities related to his or her duties with the local sports club may not engage in any recruiting activities on behalf of the member institution. It is not permissible for any outside organization, agency or group of individuals to expend funds for the institution's recruitment of prospective student-athletes.

9. Is an institution permitted to pay a coach's expenses to attend a competition in which the coach's local sports club team is participating?

10. No. A member institution may not pay a coach's expenses to attend a contest in which the coach's local sports club is participating. Providing such expenses constitutes financial support of the local sports club by the institution, which is not permitted.

11. May an institution's coach own or operate his or her own local sports club that includes prospective student-athletes?

12. Yes. Provided the club is an established, on-going club that is engaged in competitive activities and is not formed only to provide instruction to prospective student-athletes. Further, an institution's coach must use his or her own funds, independent of the institution, to establish and operate the club.

13. May an institution's coach who is employed by a local sports club provide individual skill instruction to prospective student-athletes?

14. Yes. An institution's coach who is employed by a local sports club may provide individual instruction to prospective student-athletes who are participating in the local sports club where the coach is employed, provided the club is an established, on-going club, and all prospects participating in such activities are legal residents of the area (within a 50-mile radius of the institution).

15. May an institution's coach be involved with an outside team that includes his or her own student-athletes during the summer?

16. In individual sports and water polo, if the institution's coach is the coach of an outside sports team during the summer, he or she may be involved with student-athletes with eligibility remaining from the institution's team. In team sports (other than water polo), a coach may not be involved in any capacity at any time with an outside team that includes any student-athlete from his or her institution.

17. Is a student-athlete's employment in a local sports club that is owned or operated by an institution's coach in his or her sport considered to be a countable athletically related activity?

18. The student-athlete's employment does not, in and of itself, constitute a countable athletically related activity. Therefore, it is permissible for an institution's coach who owns or operates a local sports club to employ a student-athlete, who is a member of his or her team, in the club outside the institution's playing season, provided no countable athletically related activities occur as a result of the employment.

19. Is an athletics department staff member who is not included in the institution's coaching limitations (e.g., director of athletics, academic advisor, director of volleyball operations) permitted to be involved with a local sports club?

20. Yes. Non-coaching staff members may be involved with a local sports club located in the institution's home community that includes prospective student-athletes participating in any sport, regardless of whether those prospective student-athletes live within a 50-mile radius of the institution

21. May an institution's athletics department or athletics staff be involved with a club team sponsored by an institutional department that operates independent of the athletics department (e.g., recreation services department) if the club team includes prospective student-athletes and currently-enrolled college students?

22. No. The institution's athletics department or athletics staff may not be involved with that club team. Such involvement would be considered sponsorship by the athletics department, which is not permissible. Participation by the institution's athletics department or athletics staff in the club's fundraising activities is also prohibited.

23. May a member institution's booster club sponsor a local sports club that includes prospective student-athletes?

24. No. It is not permissible for a member institution's booster club to sponsor or make a donation, directly or indirectly, to an outside sports club that involves prospective student-athletes or any student-athlete from the institution.

25. What involvement is a representative of athletics interests allowed to have with a local sports club?

26. It would be permissible for a representative of an institution's athletics interests to participate in activities involving a local sports club (e.g., serving on the board, soliciting funds, employment, etc.), provided the representative acts independently of the institution and does not engage in any recruiting activities.

27. COMPLIANCE CUP CHALLENGE Winner will be determined by percentage of points earned out of each team's individual possible points. The following point system will be used for paperwork that needs to be complete by each team: