NCAA Division I Camps, Clinics and Tryouts

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NCAA Division I Camps, Clinics and Tryouts

• Andy Louthain and Andy Cardamone

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Overview

• Definition of camps and clinics.
• General guidelines.
• Advertising camps and clinics.
• Employment.
• Definition of mens basketball Prospective
  Student-Athlete (PSA).
• Tryouts.

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Definition of camps and clinics
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Institutional Camps/clinics

• Owned and operated by a member institution or its
  athletics department staff members.
• PSAs participate.
• May occur on or off an institutions campus.
• NCAA Bylaw 13.12.1.1
• 2/1/90 Official Interpretation

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Purpose of institutional camps/clinics

• Special emphasis or instruction/practice.
• In a particular sport or sports.
• May include competition.
• Designed to improve skills and knowledge.
• Diversified experience.
• No emphasis on a particular sport.
• Does not focus on instruction, practice or
  competition.

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Noninstitutional Camps/Clinics

• Not owned or operated by the institution or
  employee of the institutions athletics
  department.
• May be held at any location, including
  institutions campus.

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General Guidelines
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Attendance

• Must be open to any and all entrants (limited
  only by number, age, grade level and/or gender). 
  
• Not permissible to provide free or reduced
  admission to high school, preparatory school,
  two-year college athletics award winner or a PSA
  being recruited by your institution.
• May invite specific PSA provided the institution
  legitimately advertises the camp
• Bylaws 13.12.1.2
• 13.12.1.5.1
• 8/19/1988 Staff Interpretation

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Apparel and awards

• PSAs may receive awards if the cost of the award
  is included in the admissions fees for the camp
  or clinic
• Bylaw 13.12.1.5.4
• 4/09/2009 Education Column

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Recruiting at camps/clinics

• Coaches are prohibited from recruiting during the
  time period of the camp or clinic.
• Written or verbal offer of financial aid.
• Making recruiting presentations.
• Setting up official or unofficial visits.
• Bylaws 13.12.1.3
• 13.1.7.2.4

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Permissible Time Periods

• Basketball.
• Football.
• All other sports.

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Basketball Time Period

• Institutional camps and clinics can be conducted
  during the following months
• June,
• July,
• August, or
• Any calendar week (Sunday through Saturday) that
  includes days of those months.
• Bylaw 13.12.1.1.4

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Football Time Period

• Two 15-consecutive day periods in the months of
  June and July
• Or any calendar week (Sunday through Saturday)
  that includes days of those months.
• Example May 31, 2009 through June 3, 2009.
• Bylaw 13.12.1.1.3

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All other sportsTime Period

• Any time during the year.
• Never during a dead period.
• Bylaw 13.12.1.3

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Recent Interpretation

• Athletics department staff members, including
  coaches, may make/receive telephone calls related
  to camp/clinic logistical issues to or from the
  following people
• PSAs
• PSAs parents or legal guardians or
• PSAs coaches.
• No advertising or promotion.
• No recruiting conversations.
• No solicitation.
• 4/2/2009 Staff Interpretation

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Advertising Camps and Clinics
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Institutional Camps/Clinics
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Advertising camps/clinics

• Brochures.
• Not restricted by content or design.
• Except for the use of current Student-Athletes
  (SAs).
• Restricted in size.
• A single two-sided sheet.
• May not exceed 17x22 when opened in full.
• May be provided to PSAs at any time.
• Bylaws 13.4.1.1-(c)
• 12.5.1.6

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Advertising Camps/Clinics

• New Official Interpretation.
• May advertise or promote camp/clinic in any way.
• Must include a statement that the camp is open to
  any and all entrants.
• Limited only by number, age, grade level and/or
  gender .
• 1/15/2009 Official Interpretation
• 4/9/2009 Educational Column

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nonInstitutional Camps/Clinics
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AThlEtics Staff Employment at Noninstitutional
Camps/Clinics

• In sports other than basketball, athletics
  personnel may serve provided the camp/clinic
  meets conditions for institutional camps
• Including, but not limited to
• Open to any and all entrants
• No free or reduced admission to athletics award
  winners and
• No recruiting presentations.
• Includes advertising.
• Bylaw 13.12.2.3.3

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Advertising Noninstitutional Camps/Clinics

• How do you ensure this is happening?
• Educate the coaches.
• Review camp/clinic advertisements as part of the
  approval process.

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Employment at camps and clinics
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Athletics department Staff Employment at
Camps/Clinics

• Basketball.
• Coaches and noncoaching personnel with basketball
  specific duties.
• May only work at his or her own institution's
  camps/clinics.
• Football.
• May work at institutional and noninstitutional
  camps/clinics during specific times.
• Two periods of 15-consecutive days.
• Months of June or July.
• Bylaws 13.12.2.3.2
• 13.12.2.3.3

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Athletics department Staff Employment at
Camps/Clinics

• All other sports.
• May work at noninstitutional camps/clinics
  provided
• Operated in accordance with institutional camp
  legislation.
• Recruiting/scouting services camps/clinics.
• May not be employed at a camp/clinic if a
  recruiting/scouting service is involved.
• The camp/clinic is established, sponsored or
  conducted by a recruiting/scouting service.
• Bylaws 13.12.2.3.1
• 13.12.2.3.3

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Student-athlete employment

• SAs may be employed at
• Own institutions camps/clinics.
• Other institutions camps/clinics.
• Noninstitutional camps/clinics.
• FBS football exception.
• Bylaws 13.12.2.1
• 13.12.2.1.6

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Student-athlete employment

• FBS Football.
• Cannot be employed at own institutions
  camps/clinics.
• One SA from institution may be employed at other
  institutions camps/clinics.
• One SA from institution may work at any one
  noninstitutional camp/clinic.
• Bylaw 13.12.2.1.6

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Student-athlete employment

• Employment considerations
• Must 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/demonstra
  ting.
• May not conduct own camp/clinic.
• Bylaw 13.12.2.1

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Newly adopted legislation

• Shall not employ (salaried or voluntary) a
  speaker at any institutional basketball
  camp/clinic who
• Is involved in coaching PSAs.
• Is associated with a PSA as a result of the PSAs
  participation in basketball.
• Prohibition also includes, but not limited to
• Coaches clinics.
• Camps/clinics involving only nonprospects.
• Any athletics activity.
• Bylaw 13.12.2.2.2
• 2008-30-B NCAA Division I Proposal

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Definition of prospective student-athlete
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Mens Basketball Prospect Rule

• New legislation.
• Men's basketball PSAs, for the purposes of camps
  and clinics, include any individual who has
  started classes for the seventh grade. 
• Bylaw 13.12.1.1.1
• 2/27/2009 Education Column

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Tryouts
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Prohibited Activities

• Shall not conduct or have conducted on its behalf
  any physical activity
• That reveals, demonstrates or displays a PSAs
  athletic abilities.
• At any location.
• In any sport.
• Bylaw 13.11.1

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Prohibited Activities

• Definition of a PSA for tryout purposes.
• All sports except mens basketball.
• Has started classes for the ninth grade
• Is not enrolled at the institution.
• Mens basketball.
• Has started classes for seventh grade
• Is not enrolled at the institution.
• Bylaws 13.11.1.1
• 13.11.1.2

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Prohibited Activities

• Examples
• Competition against PSAs.
• Competition in conjunction with a high school,
  prep school or two-year college .
• Nonscholastic-based basketball.
• Tryout events.
• Bylaws 13.11.1.3
• 13.11.1.4
• 13.11.1.5
• 13.11.1.6

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Tryouts Combine Clarified

• Institutions or conference cannot host, sponsor
  or conduct a tryout camp devoted to
• Agility, flexibility, speed and strength tests.
• All sports, except football, may attend if
• Open to all institutions, and
• Off campus.
• Bylaw 13.11.1.6

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Permissible Activities and Exceptions

• Permissible activities
• Recreational activities.
• Local sports clubs.
• Sport camps and clinics.
• Exceptions
• Open events.
• Activities not involving institutions staff.
• Officiating.
• Bylaws 13.11.2
• 13.11.3

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Summary

• Definition of camps and clinics.
• General guidelines.
• Advertising camps and clinics.
• Employment.
• Definition of mens basketball PSA.
• Tryouts.

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Questions