Athletics Representative (Booster) – A “representative of the institution’s athletics interests” (athletics representative), or booster, is an individual who is known (or who should have been known by the institution’s staff) to:
a.) Have participated in or to be a member of an agency or organization promoting the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program;
b.) Have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of that institution.;
c.) Be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospects;
d.) Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families; or
e.) Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution’s athletics program.
PLEASE NOTE: Once an individual is defined as such a representative, the person retains that identity indefinitely.
Enrolled Student-Athlete – An enrolled student athlete is a student who is presently participating in athletics or has completed his/her eligibility but is still enrolled in Davidson College.
Prospective Student-Athlete (Prospect) – A prospective student-athlete is a student who has started classes for the ninth grade. In addition, a student who has not started classes for the ninth grade becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides such an individual (or the individual’s relatives or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally.
Recruiting – Recruiting is any solicitation of a prospect or a prospect’s relatives [or legal guardian’s] by an institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution’s athletic interests for the purpose of securing the prospect’s enrollment and ultimate participation in the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program.
A Recruited Prospective Student-Athlete – A prospective Student-Athlete becomes a recruited prospective student-athlete when actions by staff members or athletics representatives do any of the following:
a.) Provide the prospect with an official visit
b.) Have an arranged, in-person, off-campus encounter with the prospect or the prospect’s parent(s), relatives or legal guardian(s); or
c.) Initiate or arrange a telephone contact with the prospect, the prospect’s relatives or legal guardian(s) on more than one occasion for the purpose of recruitment.
Extra Benefit – An extra benefit is any special gift or arrangement provided by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution’s athletics interest to a student-athlete or the student-athlete’s relative or friend that is not available to the general student body of the institution.