You become a "prospective student-athlete" once you have started classes for the ninth grade. Before the ninth grade, you become a prospective student-athlete if the University gives you (or your relatives or friends) any financial aid or other benefits that the University does not provide to prospective students generally.

You become a "recruited prospective student-athlete" at the University if any coach or representative of the college's athletics interests (i.e. "booster") does any of the following:

• Provides you with an official visit;
• Initiates or arranges more than one telephone call with you or your relatives;
• Meets with you or your relatives at a location other than the University's campus;
• Issues to you a National Letter of Intent (NLI).

Recruiting contacts may be made only by authorized University staff members. Representatives of the University's athletics interests are not permitted to contact you, whether in-person, by telephone or through written correspondence. Representatives include any individual who has made financial contributions to the University or participated in any way in promoting the University's athletics program.

In sports other than men's basketball, coaches may not provide recruiting materials until September 1 at the beginning of your junior year in high school. In men's basketball, coaches may provide recruiting materials beginning June 15 at the conclusion of your sophomore year. Exceptions to these rules permit the University to provide camp brochures, questionnaires, general University publications that are not athletically related, and NCAA educational materials.

Off-campus, in-person recruiting contacts are not permitted before July 1 following completion of your junior year in high school. In men's basketball, off-season recruiting contacts are not permitted before the opening day of your junior year in high school. NCAA rules prohibit all in-person contact with a two-year college prospect during the prospect's first year of college if the prospect was not a qualifier at the time of initial full-time enrollment.

Coaches are not permitted to initiate telephone calls to prospective student-athletes prior to July 1 following completion of your junior year in high school. Telephone calls are limited to once per week outside a contact period, but may be made at the institution's discretion during a contact period.

In football, one telephone call to a prospect may be made from April 15 through May 31 of your junior year in high school. Starting September 1 of the beginning of your senior year in high school, telephone contact is limited to once per week outside a contact period but can be made at the institution's discretion during a contact period.

In men's basketball, telephone calls may not be made before June 15 at the conclusion of your sophomore year in high school. Thereafter, an institution may make telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete at its discretion.

In women's basketball, coaches may make one telephone call during the month of April of your junior year in high school on or after the Thursday following the NCAA Division I Women's Final Four. One telephone call during the month of May of your junior year in high school and then one telephone call on or after June 1 through June 20 of your junior year in high school. An additional call on or after June 21 through June 30 of your junior year in high school and then three telephone calls during the month of July following your junior year in high school, with not more than one telephone call per week. Thereafter, coaches may make one telephone call per week outside a contact period and unlimited telephone calls during a contact period.

(Effective August 1, 2013) In women's basketball, telephone calls may not be made before September 1 at the beginning of your junior year in high school. Thereafter, an institution may make telephone calls to a prospective student-athloete at its discretion.

Staff members and representatives of the University's athletics interests are prohibited from any involvement in offering or giving financial aid or other benefits to a prospective student-athlete unless expressly permitted under NCAA rules.

Examples of specifically prohibited financial aid, benefits and arrangements include, but are not limited to, the following:

• An employment arrangement for a prospect's relatives;
• Gift of clothing or equipment;
• Cosigning of loans;
• Providing loans to a prospective student-athlete's relatives or friends;
• Cash or like items;
• Any tangible items, including merchandise;
• Free or reduced-cost services, rentals or purchases of any type;
• Free or reduced-cost housing;
• Use of the University's athletics equipment;
• Sponsorship of an awards banquet for high school athletes.

Your receipt of any impermissible benefits or inducements could jeopardize your eligibility to compete in intercollegiate athletics.

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