Camps and Clinics

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Camps and Clinics

• Divisions I

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SESSION OVERVIEW

• Institutional camps and clinics.
• Employment.
• Prospects and student-athletes.
• High-school, prep-school and two-year college
  coaches.
• Noninstitutional camps.
• Camp brochures.

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CAMPS AND CLINICS

• QUESTION
• What NCAA bylaws cover camps and clinics?
• Division I ?????

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CAMPS and CLINICS

• ANSWER
• What NCAA bylaws cover camps and clinics?
• Division I NCAA Bylaw 13.12

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CAMPS and CLINICS

• QUESTION
• What are the three types of camps and/or clinics
  regulated by NCAA legislation?

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CAMPS and CLINICS

• ANSWER
• What are the three types of camps and/or clinics
  regulated by NCAA legislation?
• Developmental
• Institutional
• Noninstitutional

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DEVELOPMENTAL CLINICS

• QUESTION
• Developmental clinics are designed for the
  advanced prospective student-athlete.
• A. True
• B. False

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DEVELOPMENTAL CLINICS

• ANSWER
• Developmental clinics are designed for the
  advanced prospective student-athlete.
• B. False

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DEVELOPMENTAL CLINICSBylaw 13.11.3.1

• Teach the basics about a sport (not advanced).
• Open (limited only by number and age).
• Conducted by institution.
• For educational purposes only.
• NO material benefits provided to participants.
• No recruiting presentations.

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DEVELOPMENTAL CLINICS

• Participants must live in-state, or if outside of
  the state, within 100 miles of the camp/clinic.
• May occur anytime EXCEPT during a dead period.

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DEVELOPMENTAL CLINICS

• 2005-74 - Developmental clinic legislation
  deregulated effective August 1, 2006.
• Legislation was adopted at a time when camps and
  clinics werent open to senior prospects in any
  sport. Camp legislation now includes all
  prospect-aged individuals therefore,
  developmental clinic legislation is unnecessary.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• What percentage of ownership by an institution or
  athletics staff member causes a camp/clinic to be
  considered institutional?
• A. 1
• B. 25
• C. 49
• D. 51

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• ANSWER
• What percentage of ownership by an institution or
  athletics staff member causes a camp/clinic to be
  considered institutional?
• D. 51

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• What is an institutional camp/clinic?
• Fifty-one percent or more ownership by a member
  institution or its athletics department staff
  members.
• May occur on or off an institutions campus.
• Prior approval from the athletic director must be
  obtained for participation in camps conducted
  off-campus.
• Football- Per conference policy, football staff
  members may not participate in off-campus camps.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• What are the purposes of camps/clinics?
• 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.
• Division I An institutions basketball camp or
  clinic must include an educational session
  detailing NCAA initial-eligibility standards and
  regulations pertaining to gambling, agents and
  drug use to all camp and/or clinic participants.

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BASKETBALL EDUCATIONAL SESSION RESOURCES

• Mandatory Educational Session  
• All prospective student-athletes must attend a
  comprehensive educational session.  The
  session(s) must consist of an in-person or
  video presentation.  The distribution of printed
  materials to participants or coaches will not
  satisfy this requirement.  Further, the
  session(s) must address NCAA initial-eligibility
  standards, gambling, agents and drug use.   
• For information that would be appropriate to
  present during the educational session, see
  www.ncaa.org for the following materials/videos
  below
• NCAA Video Request Form                           
                     
• Rules Education Information                       
                         
• Men's PowerPoint Presentation (can be used for
  mandatory educational session)                    
                           
• Women's PowerPoint Presentation (can be used for
  mandatory educational session)    

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• When may institutional camps/clinics occur?
• Division I football During two periods of 15
  consecutive days in the months of June July or
  any calendar week that includes these months.
• Division I basketball During the months of
  June, July or August.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• Time period for camps/clinics.
• All other sports in Divisions I
• Anytime during the year.
• EXCEPTIONS
• NEVER during a DEAD period.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• What are institutional camp/clinic attendance
  requirements?
• Open to the general public (limited only by
  number and age).
• In Division I football no senior prospects
  (prep-school, two-year college prospects and
  four-year transfers included) may enroll or
  participate.
• Student-athletes may not enroll as campers at
  their own institutions camp/clinic.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• Is it permissible to invite select prospects to
  attend an institutions camp/clinic?
• A. Yes
• B. No

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• ANSWER
• Is it permissible to invite select prospects to
  attend an institutions camp/clinic?
• Yes, in all sports, provided the camp/clinic is
  legitimately advertised making it open to all
  entrants (limited only by number and age).
• August 19, 1988, interpretation
• Coaching staff may not work exclusively with
  certain prospects.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• Is it permissible for two-year or four-year
  college prospects to participate in another
  institutions camp/clinic?
• A. Yes
• B. No

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• ANSWER
• Is it permissible for two-year or four-year
  college prospects to participate in another
  institutions camp/clinic?
• Division I football? No.
• If the student-athlete has asked for permission
  to transfer, he has triggered senior prospect
  status.
• All other sports? Yes, provided
• Camp/clinic is open to all entrants (limited only
  by number and age).
• Participant pays the going rate to attend
  camp/clinic.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• Who may be employed at institutional
  camps/clinics?
• ANSWER
• In all sports other than basketball, athletics
  staff members may be employed at institutional
  camps.
• Division I- Basketball Coach and non-coaching
  staff members with basketball specific
  responsibilities may be employed only at their
  own institution's camps or clinics during June,
  July and August.
• Exception Contracts signed prior to July 20,
  2004, may be honored, provided the camp or clinic
  is operated in accordance with restrictions
  applicable to institutional camps.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• Student-athletes.
• In sports other than Division I-A football, a
  member institution may employ its
  student-athletes as camp counselors, provided
  they do not participate in organized practice
  activities.
• High-school/Prep-school/Two-year college coaches.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• Who may NOT be employed at institutional
  camps/clinics?
• ANSWER
• Prospects who are athletics award winner.
• Exception Children of athletics staff members.
• Rule extends to recruited prospects, even if they
  have not earned a letter (e.g., high-school club
  team participants).
• Four-year college transfer student-athletes

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PROPOSAL FOR PROSPECT EMPLOYMENT AT SUMMER CAMPS

• 2005-164In sports other than football, to
  permit an institution to employ a prospect in its
  summer camp or clinic, provided the prospect has
  signed a National Letter of Intent or the
  institution's written offer of admission and/or
  financial aid, has graduated from high school and
  is enrolled in institution's summer term prior to
  initial full-time enrollment.
• Effective 8/1/2006 if adopted.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• What rules govern student-athlete employment?
• All sports except football
• 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/clinic.
• May receive travel expenses, only if expenses are
  provided for all employees.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• Football student-athletes
• May not be employed or volunteer at own
  institutions camp/clinic.
• May only be employed at another institutions
  camp/clinic (limited to one per institution).
• May be employed in institutional diversified
  sports camp (limited to one per institution).
• Proposal No. 2004-80.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• Other employment considerations?
• No limit on number of student-athletes in a given
  sport who may be employed.
• No practice activities outside of season.
• Student-athlete must perform duties that are of a
  general supervisory nature in addition to any
  coaching or officiating assignments.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• What rules govern high-school, prep-school and
  two-year college coach employment?
• Must be paid going rate (like teaching ability
  and camp experience).
• May not be paid based on reputation or contact
  with prospects.
• May not be paid based on the number of campers
  the coach sends to the camp.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• Division I
• Is it permissible to provide free or reduced
  admission privileges to an athletics award
  winner?
• A. Yes
• B. No

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• ANSWER B. No
• It is impermissible to provide free or reduced
  admission privileges to an athletics award
  winner.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• What rules govern camp/clinic admissions?
• Division I May not give free or reduced
  admission privileges to an athletics award winner
  or any individual being recruited by the
  institution.
• Exception Children of coaches employed at camp
  and children of institutional staff members
  (October 29, 2003, interpretation).
• Group discounts (June 2, 1989, interpretation).

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• October 29, 2003, interpretation
• It is permissible to have an institutional policy
  or athletics department policy that permits the
  children of institutional staff members or
  athletics department staff members to be employed
  or receive free or reduced admissions to the
  institutions camps or clinics, regardless of
  whether the staff members child is a
  high-school, prep-school or two-year college
  athletics award winner.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• October 29, 2003, interpretation (continued)
• Further, it is permissible for an institution to
  provide free or reduced admissions to its camp or
  clinic to the child of a coach who is an
  instructor in the camp or clinic (who is not an
  athletics department staff member at the
  institution hosting the camp or clinic), provided
  the opportunity is available to children of all
  coaches instructing in the camp or clinic.

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INSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINICS

• June 2, 1989, interpretation
• Member institutions camp or clinic may offer
  group discounts to coaches and athletes, provided
  those discounts are available on an equal basis
  with documented standards to all who wish to take
  advantage of them.

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMP/CLINICS

• QUESTION
• May noninstitutional camps/clinics occur on an
  institutions campus?
• A. Yes
• B. No

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMP/CLINICS

• ANSWER
• May noninstitutional camps/clinics occur on an
  institutions campus?
• A. Yes

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• Noninstitutional camps/clinics are
• Not owned or operated by the institution or
  employee of institutions athletics department.
• May be held at any location, including on the
  institutions campus.

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• Division I - Sports other than MBB and WBB
  Athletics department personnel may serve in any
  capacity (e.g., counselor, guest lecturer,
  consultant) in a noninstitutional, privately
  owned camp or clinic, provided the camp or clinic
  is operated under restrictions applicable to
  institutional camps (e.g., open to any and all
  entrants, no free or reduced admission to or
  employment of athletics award winners).
• Exception FB Participation in non-institutional
  camps must occur during one of the 15-consecutive
  day periods.

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• Division I MBB and WBB
• Coaches and noncoaching staff members with
  basketball specific responsibilities may not
  serve in any capacity at a noninstitutional camp.
• Exception Contracts signed prior to July 20,
  2004, may be honored, provided the camp or clinic
  is operated in accordance with restrictions
  applicable to institutional camps.

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• Division I Noncoaching athletics staff members
  with department-wide responsibilities may present
  an educational session at a noninstitutional
  camp/clinic that is not operated under the
  restrictions of institutional camps/clinics,
  provided the individual does not make a
  recruiting presentation.

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• EXCEPTION
• An institutions athletics department personnel
  may serve in any capacity at a noninstitutional
  (e.g., FCA) camp or clinic provided the camp or
  clinic meets the following conditions

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• Conditions
• Designed to develop fundamental skills in a
  sport.
• Open to the general public (except for
  restrictions in age or number of participants).
• Conducted primarily for educational purposes and
  does not include material benefits for
  participants.
• Participants do not receive a recruiting
  presentation.
• Participants reside in the same state in which
  the camp/clinic is located or, if outside of the
  state, within 100 miles of the camp/clinic.

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NONINSTITUTIONAL CAMPS/CLINCS

• Other noninstitutional camps/clinics
• Athletics staff members may not be employed
  (salaried or volunteer) by a camp/clinic that is
  established, sponsored or conducted by an
  individual that provides recruiting or scouting
  services.

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CAMP BROCHURES

• QUESTION
• Camp brochures may not be sent to a prospect
  until September 1 following the start of the
  prospects junior year.
• A. True
• B. False

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CAMP BROCHURES

• ANSWER B. False
• Camp brochures may be sent to a prospect prior
  to September 1 following the start of the
  prospects junior year.

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CAMP BROCHURES

• Camp brochures may be sent to prospects anytime,
  including prior to permissible recruiting
  materials date for a particular sport.
• Permissible recruiting material send dates
• All sports September 1 at the beginning of
  junior year.
• Division I mens basketball at the conclusion
  of sophomore year in high school.

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CAMP BROCHURES

• What are camp brochure limitations?
• Division I
• 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-athletes name, picture and institutional
  affiliation may only appear in the camp counselor
  section to identify the student-athlete as a camp
  counselor.
• Rule applies to both institutional and
  noninstitutional brochures.

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ADDITIONAL CAMP CONSIDERATIONS

• QUESTIONS
• It is permissible for coaches to recruit
  prospects during a camp/clinic.
• A. True
• B. False
• Prospects may receive awards for their
  participation in institutional camps.
• A. True
• B. False

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ADDITIONAL CAMP CONSIDERATIONS

• ANSWERS
• It is permissible for coaches to recruit
  prospects during a camp/clinic.
• B. False
• Prospects may receive awards for their
  participation in institutional camps.
• A. True

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ADDITIONAL CAMP CONSIDERATIONS

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

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ADDITIONAL CAMP CONSIDERATIONS

• Summer Camp Advertisements
• Institutions may not buy or arrange to have their
  camp/clinic advertisements in game programs or
  other printed materials published to provide
  information concerning the athletics
  participation or evaluation of prospects (i.e.,
  recruiting publications).

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ADDITIONAL CAMPCONSIDERATIONS

• EXCEPTION
• 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 that meets the following requirements
• The size (not to exceed one-half page) and format
  are identical and
• The camp directory must include multiple listings
  of summer camps on each page (two advertisements
  of the same size must appear on each page).

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ADDITIONAL CAMPCONSIDERATIONS

• Monitoring Strategies
• Establish and document camp policies and
  procedures.
• Implement monitoring system with checks and
  balances and administrative oversight.
• Provide rules education.
• Require documentation from staff and
  student-athletes.
• Monitor sports camp funding issues.
• Spot-check camps and clinics.

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SUMMARY

• Institutional camp and clinics
• Purpose.
• Time periods.
• Attendance.
• Employment.
• Brochures.
• Noninstitutional camps and clinics.

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QUESTIONS

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