Compliance Office

Current Student Athletes

Amateurism

The NCAA prohibits student-athletes from competing in intercollegiate athletics if they have lost their amateur status. An individual loses amateur status in a particular sport if the individual subsequent to initial full-time collegiate enrollment:

• uses his or her athletics skill (directly or indirectly) for pay;
• accepts a promise of pay even if such pay is to be received following completion of intercollegiate athletics competition;
• signs a contract or commitment of any kind to play professional athletics;
• receives, directly or indirectly, a salary, reimbursement of expenses or any other form of financial assistance from a professional sports organization based on athletics skill or participation;
• competes on any professional athletics team, even if no pay was received;
• enters into a professional draft or an agreement with an agent; or
• enters into an agreement with an agent prior to or subsequent to initial full-time collegiate enrollment.

See bylaws 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3 (www.ncaa.org)