Regarding prospective student-athletes
Only coaches and College staff members are allowed to be involved in the athletic recruiting process.
- Athletics Representatives may only speak to a prospect via telephone if the prospect initiates the phone call and the call is not for recruiting purposes. All inquiries about Davidson College Athletics should be directed to the Intercollegiate Athletics Department.
- Boosters may observe a prospect’s athletics contest on his/her own initiative, but contact with the prospect must not be made.
- Boosters may not contact a prospect’s coach, principal or counselor in attempts to evaluate him/her. Nor, may a booster visit the prospective student-athletes educational institution to pick up a film or transcripts.
- Pre-established relationships between athletic representatives and prospects, their parents and relatives may continue as long as it is consistent with the previous pattern of interaction prior to becoming a prospect.
Unavoidable incidental contact made with a prospect by an athletics representative is permitted, provided the following:
- The contact is not prearranged by the athletics representative or athletics department staff member;
- The contact does not take place on the grounds of the prospect’s educational institution or at practice or competition sites involving the prospect or his/her team
- The contact is not made for the purpose of recruitment of the prospect, and
- The contact involves only normal civility.
A prospective student-athlete remains a prospect even after he or she has accepted admission to Davidson College. A prospect does not lose his or her prospect status until the start of classes as the College or until the beginning of official team practice prior to the start of classes
Regarding Enrolled Student-Athletes
Athletic Representatives may not provide enrolled student-athletes any benefit or service of value to a student athlete that is not generally provided to that institutions entire student body. Extra benefits include, but are not limited to;
- Cash or loans in any amount
- Gifts or free services (e.g., airline tickets, cash restaurant meals, summer storage spaces)
- Transportation, use of an automobile or any other form of motorized vehicle
- Rent-free or reduced cost housing
- Employment of a student-athlete at a higher rate than the wages paid for similar work
- Payments to a student-athlete at a higher rate than the wages paid for similar work
- Payment to a student-athlete for work not performed
- Tickets to an athletics, institutional or community event
- Financial aid for a post graduate education
- Invitations to your home or summer home for purposes other than occasional meal
Rules and regulations concerning enrolled student-athletes are not only applicable during the academic school year, but during the summer months and vacation times as well.
An enrolled student-athlete remains one as long as he/she is in attendance at Davidson College even if his/her athletic eligibility has expired.