Transcript Making Sense of Newly Adopted Legislation Regional Rules Seminar Amanda Conklin and Courtney Lovely.

Making Sense of Newly
Adopted Legislation
Regional Rules Seminar
Amanda Conklin and
Courtney Lovely
Overview
• 2015 NCAA Convention
– Adopted Legislation
– Defeated Proposals
• 2016 Convention Preview
Adopted Proposals
AMATEURISM
NCAA Division II Proposal No. 2015-1:
Participation of Signed PSAs in Institutional
Fundraisers or Promotional Activities
• A PSA may participate in institutional
fundraisers prior to his or her initial collegiate
enrollment provided the PSA has graduated
from high school and has signed a NLI or a
written offer of admission and/or financial aid.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Participation of Signed PSAs in
Institutional Fundraisers or Promotional
Activities, continued
• PSA is required to graduate from high school prior to
participation.
• Institutions may provide expenses to a PSA to
participate, however, institutions cannot provide
transportation to enroll per NCAA Bylaw 13.5.4.
• PSA that signs multiple offers of admission and/or
financial aid, may participate in fundraisers and
promotional activities at multiple institutions.
Participation of Signed PSAs in
Institutional Fundraisers or Promotional
Activities, continued
PSA’s Classification
Requirements for Participation
Incoming first-year student,
qualifier.
• Sign NLI or a written offer of
admission and/or financial aid;
and
• Graduate from high school.
Incoming first-year student, partial
qualifier.
Not eligible to participate.
Incoming first-year, nonqualifier.
Not eligible to participate.
Participation of Signed PSAs in
Institutional Fundraisers or Promotional
Activities, continued
PSA’s Classification
Requirements for Participation
Incoming first-year student, has not yet
received final academic certification from
the NCAA Eligibility Center.
•
Two-year college transfer student.
•
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Four-year college transfer student.
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Sign NLI or a written offer of
admission and/or financial aid; and
Graduate from high school.
Sign NLI or a written offer of
admission and/or financial aid; and
Meet applicable two-year transfer
requirements (Bylaw 14.5.4).
Receipt of permission to contact; and
Sign written offer of admission and/or
financial aid.
Adopted Proposals
RECRUITING
Proposal No. 2015-2: Impact of Violations of
Recruiting Contact and Evaluation
Legislation
• Violations of the recruiting contact and
evaluation legislation shall be considered
de minimis [D] institutional violations and
will not affect a PSA’s eligibility.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
Impact of Violations of Recruiting Contact
and Evaluation Legislation, continued
• Violations would be institutional violations
and would have to be reported to the
NCAA enforcement staff.
• Involved PSA’s eligibility is
not affected.
Proposal No. 2015-3: Permission to
Contact and One-Time Transfer
Exception – Hearing Requirements
• If an institution denies a SA’s written request for permission
to contact or use of the one-time transfer exception, SA
must be provided the opportunity to actively participate in
the hearing.
• If institution does not respond within 14 calendar days, a
violation has occurred and the request is automatically
granted.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
Permission to Contact and One-Time
Transfer Exception – Hearing
Requirements, continued
• Hearing must be conducted within 30 calendar days of
the SA’s written request.
• If the SA’s request to use the one-time transfer is granted
by default, he/she must meet all other requirements of
the one-time transfer exception (Bylaw 14.5.5.3.9) to be
immediately eligible for competition.
Permission to Contact and One-Time
Transfer Exception – Hearing
Requirements, continued
Trigger for Required Response Timelines for Written Requests for
Permission to Contact, Use of the One-Time Transfer Exception
and Related Hearings
• Clarifies that the written request must be submitted by the SA.
• Failure to respond to a written request from another institution or
from an individual other than the SA does not constitute a violation.
Official Interpretation [Reference: 12/12/14, Item No. 9]
Proposal No. 2015-4: Post High
School Tryouts
• Establishes a post high school tryout for PSAs.
• Once a PSA graduates from high school and after
September 1, the PSA is permitted to participate in a
second tryout.
• Aligns with the official visit legislation.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Proposal No. 2015-11: Recruiting –
Publicity After Commitment
• Eliminates the restrictions on publicity
related to a PSA after he or she has
signed a NLI or the institution’s written
offer of admission and/or financial aid.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Recruiting – Publicity After
Commitment, continued
Application:
Type of Event
Can a meal be
provided?
Can transportation
be provided?
Celebratory event in YES
the locale of the
institution.
YES from the
institution to the
event.
Celebratory event
YES
outside the locale of
the institution.
NO
Recruiting – Publicity After
Commitment, continued
Signed PSA Attendance at a Press Conference or
Celebratory Event Outside the Locale of the Institution
• Clarifies that if your institution hosts an event outside the
locale of the institution, the PSA and his or her relatives
can attend and receive a meal.
• Institution cannot provide transportation to the event.
Official Interpretation [Reference: 1/22/15, Item No. 11]
Recruiting – Publicity After
Commitment, continued
Institutional Staff Member Attendance at an OffCampus Press Conference or Celebratory Event
• Staff member may attend an off-campus institutional
press conference or celebratory event held for the
purpose of announcing regardless if media are present.
• Not permissible for an institutional staff member to
attend a noninstitutional press conference or
celebratory event if media are present.
Official Interpretation [Reference: 3/26/15, Item No. 3-d]
Proposal No. 2015-12: Local Sports
Club Expenses
• Specifies that a coach may receive expenses
from an institution to engage in recruiting
activities on behalf of the institution while
coaching a local sports team.
• A coach may also recruit on behalf of the
institution while receiving expenses from a local
sports club.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Local Sports Club Expenses,
continued
• A member institution and local sports club may
share a coach’s actual and necessary expenses.
• Institutions must monitor any recruiting activity in
accordance with institutional policy.
Local Sports Club Expenses,
continued
Modification of Wording – Proposal No. M-2016-1
Clarifies that a coaching staff member may
receive actual and necessary expenses from an
institution to engage in recruiting activities on
behalf of the institution while serving in his or
her capacity as a local sports club coach.
Adopted Proposals
PLAYING AND PRACTICE
SEASONS
Proposal No. 2015-5: Participation in
Foreign Tours
• For a SA to participate in a foreign tour that
takes place between terms (e.g., winter break,
summer) the SA must be certified as
academically and athletically eligible for the
following academic term.
• SAs who have exhausted their eligibility in a
term immediately preceding the foreign tour may
participate if otherwise eligible for competition or
has graduated.
Participation in Foreign Tours,
continued
• Incoming SAs are permitted to participate prior
to initial full-time enrollment provided PSA has
committed to your institution and received
academic and amateurism certification.
• Incoming transfer SAs must receive an
amateurism certification and be otherwise
eligible.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Participation in Foreign Tours,
continued
Application:
PSA’s Classification
Requirements for Participation
Incoming first-year student.
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•
Four-year college transfer student.
•
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Two-year college transfer student.
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Sign NLI or a written offer of admission
and/or financial aid; and
Receive a final academic and
amateurism certification from the
Eligibility Center.
Receive a final academic and
amateurism certification from the
Eligibility Center; and
Meet applicable four-year transfer
requirements (Bylaw 14.5.5).
Receive a final academic and
amateurism certification from the
Eligibility Center; and
Meet applicable four-year transfer
requirements (Bylaw 14.5.4).
Participation in Foreign Tours,
continued
Noncontroversial Legislative Proposal
• Would eliminate limitation on SA participating in only
one foreign tour per institution per sport.
• Institutions would still be limited to one foreign tour
per sport every four years.
• Will be reviewed by NCAA Division II Management
Council in July 2015.
Participation in Foreign Tours,
continued
Noncontroversial Legislative Proposal
• The 10 days of practice associated with a
foreign tour must take place within 14 days of
departure for the foreign tour.
• Days that fall during the institution's final
examination period and the seven-day winter
break period are not included in the 14-day
window.
• Will be reviewed by Management Council in
2015.
Proposal No. 2015-16: Summer
Conditioning Workouts – Fall Sports
• In fall championship sports (including golf and tennis
for those institutions that conduct the championship
segment during the fall), beginning June 1 through
the conclusion of an institution’s summer vacation
period, strength and conditioning personnel may
design and conduct workout programs for SAs, as
specified.
• Workouts may not be required.
• Effective Date: June 1, 2015.
Summer Conditioning Workouts –
Fall Sports, continued
• Strength and conditioning coach conducting such
workouts must:
•
Perform strength and conditioning duties for at least one
other intercollegiate team at the institution during the
academic year.
•
Be certified through a national strength and conditioning
program.
•
Maintain a current certification in first aid, cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) and automatic external defibrillator
(AED) use.
Summer Conditioning Workouts –
Fall Sports, continued
Emergency Legislative Proposal – Proposal
No. EM 2016-1
PSAs and current SAs must satisfy the mandatory medical examination
requirements in Bylaws 17.1.5 and 17.1.5.1 prior to participation in:
• Permissible voluntary summer conditioning workouts designed or
conducted by institutional strength and conditioning personnel;
• Voluntary individual workout sessions in individual sports; or
• Voluntary individual workouts pursuant to the sport-specific safety
exceptions.
Summer Conditioning Workouts –
Fall Sports, continued
Timing of Medical Examination for Returning SAs Participating in
Voluntary Summer Workouts
• A returning SA would meet the requirement to have a
medical examination or an updated medical history
completed prior to participation in voluntary athletically
related activities in the summer provided the SA had a
medical examination or updated medical history on file
from the prior academic year.
Official Interpretation [Reference: 3/26/15, Item No. 13]
Proposal No. 2015-17: Team
Activities Outside the Playing
Season
• SAs in sports other than football may
participate in a maximum of two hours of
team activities per week as part of the
permissible eight hours of countable
athletically related activities that may occur
outside of the playing season during
the academic year.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
Team Activities Outside the Playing
Season, continued
• Team activities may include practice sessions
for the entire team.
• Out-of-season activities are still limited to eight
hours per week, with no more that two hours of
team activities.
• Skill instruction remains
permissible.
Proposal No. 2015-18: Competition
Start Date-Spring Sports
• Applies to baseball, golf, lacrosse, rowing, sand
volleyball, softball and tennis.
• In years when February 1 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or
Monday, an institution may participate in its first contest
or date of competition beginning the Friday preceding
February 1.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Competition Start Date-Spring
Sports, continued
• Will not affect the start date for practice in
spring sports.
Academic Year
First Permissible Contest/Date of
Competition
2014-15
Friday, January 30, 2015
2015-16
Friday, January 29, 2016
2016-17
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
2017-18
Thursday, February 1, 2018
2018-19
Friday, February 1, 2019
2019-20
Friday, January 31, 2020
Adopted Proposals
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Proposal No. 2015-6: Establishment
of National Collegiate Championship
in Sand Volleyball
•
Established a National Collegiate Championship in sand
volleyball.
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First championship will occur spring 2016.
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Established a six-person sand volleyball committee.
•
Effective Date:
•
Establishment of Committee – Immediate.
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Championship – August 1, 2016.
Adopted Proposals
NCAA MEMBERSHIP
Proposal No. 2015-8: Full-Time
Compliance Administrator with No
Coaching Duties
• An active member institution must certify
annually that it employs a full-time compliance
administrator with no coaching
responsibilities.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2018.
Full-Time Compliance Administrator
with No Coaching Duties, continued
Full-Time Compliance Administrator with No Coaching
Duties Must Serve as
Senior Ranking Compliance Officer
• If an institution employs more than one compliance
administrator, the senior ranking administrator cannot
have coaching duties.
Official Interpretation [Reference: 1/22/15, Item No. 10]
Adopted Proposals
ORGANIZATION AND
COMMITTEES
Proposal No. 2015-9: StudentAthlete Advisory Committee
Representation on Management
Council
• The composition of the Management Council shall include
two representatives of the NCAA Division II StudentAthlete Advisory Committee.
• The representatives from the Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee shall have one vote on the Council.
• Effective Date: Immediate.
Adopted Proposals
LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
Proposal No. 2015-10: StudentAthlete Advisory Committee –
Convention Vote
• The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee shall
be entitled to one vote at the NCAA Division II
Convention business session.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
Adopted Proposals
AWARDS, BENEFITS AND
EXPENSES
Proposal No. 2015-13: Meals
Incidental to Participation
• An institution may provide meals and snacks to
SAs as a benefit incidental to participation in
intercollegiate athletics.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
Proposal No. 2015-13: Meals
Incidental to Participation, continued
Modification of Wording
Proposal No. M-2016-2
• Clarifies that an institution may only provide cash in lieu
of a meal incidental to participation in intercollegiate
athletics.
• Specifies that when it is permissible for an institution to
provide cash in lieu of a meal or snack incidental to
participation, an institution shall not provide SAs with a
meal or snack and cash for the same meal or snack.
Proposal No. 2015-14: Team
Entertainment-In Conjunction with
Practice or Competition
• An institution, conference or the NCAA may
provide reasonable entertainment (but may not
provide cash for such entertainment) to SAs in
conjunction with practice or competition.
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
Team Entertainment-In Conjunction
with Practice or Competition,
continued
• Institutions are responsible for determining what
constitutes reasonable entertainment.
• It is not permissible for SAs to miss class for an
entertainment activity in conjunction with a practice.
• Entertainment may be provided during the required day
off during the playing season.
• Institutions can provide transportation to a team
entertainment activity.
Team Entertainment-In Conjunction
with Practice or Competition,
continued
Noncontroversial Proposal No. NC-2016-7
• Specifies that an institution, conference or the
NCAA may provide reasonable entertainment
to SAs as a benefit incidental to
participation in intercollegiate athletics.
Team Entertainment-In Conjunction
with Practice or Competition,
continued
Team Entertainment Activities with Physical Components
• Team entertainment activities, including leadership training and/or
teambuilding activities, that include physical components incidental
to the activity may occur at any time.
• Such physical activities are not countable athletically related
activities as long as:
– They are separate and distinguishable from normal practice or strength and
conditioning activities;
– Occur only on an infrequent basis; and
– Neither tactical nor technical instruction related to the SAs' sport is provided.
Official Interpretation [Reference 3/11/15, Item No. 3-e]
Proposal No. 2015-15: Expenses for
Participation in Practice,
Competition and Noncompetitive
Events
• Specifies that an institution, conference or the NCAA
may provide actual and necessary expenses to a SA to
represent the institution in practice and competition
and for a SA to represent the institution in
noncompetitive events (e.g., goodwill tours, media
appearances, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
meetings).
• Effective Date: August 1, 2015.
DEFEATED PROPOSALS
Proposal No. 2015-7: Full-Time Director
of Athletics with No Coaching Duties
• Intent: To specify that an active member institution shall certify
annually that it employs a full-time director of athletics with no
coaching responsibilities.
• To specify that an individual who serves an active member institution
as a full-time director of athletics and a coach may continue to serve
the institution in those positions provided the individual held both
positions at the institution July 31, 2015.
• Sponsor: NCAA Division II Membership
Committee.
Proposal No. 2015-19: Conference
Challenge Event – Baseball, Soccer,
Softball and Women’s Volleyball
• Intent: In baseball, soccer, softball and women’s volleyball, to
permit a maximum of two contests played as part of a
conference challenge event to be exempted annually from
the maximum number of contest limitations, as specified.
• Sponsors: Peach Belt Conference and
Great Midwest Athletic Conference.
2016 CONVENTION PREVIEW
2016 Convention
• Permission to Contact and Use of the One-Time Transfer Exception
– NAIA Institutions.
• Study Abroad and Participation in Outside Competition.
• Director of Athletics with No Coaching Duties.
• Automatic Qualification.
• Street Drug Testing.
• Unattached Competition.
QUESTIONS???