NAIA Recruiting: Recruiting Rules for High
School Athletics
1. No recruiting
Calendar
2. Coaches have no limits on contact with High School Players
from Freshmen to Junior year. Senior year they same rules unless the High
School Player has enrolled in another institution, then the player become
off limits to all other institutions.
3. An institution may pay for one visit to its campus by
direct route, for a stay not to exceed two days and two nights. The visit
must be completed no less than 10 days prior to the opening day of
classes.
CAMPUS VISITATIONS AND TRYOUTS
OF PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
The Association's attitude toward campus visitation of
prospective students is formulated from the following three major
principles.
1. The protection of the student
in maintaining normal academic progress in high school and junior
college.
2. The coordination of this rule
with the overall policies of the institution affecting procurement of
students with special talents.
3. The control of tryouts
consistent with making the intercollegiate program an integral part of the
total program without legislating against the student.
A. Individual or group tryouts may be conducted, on the
member institution's campus only, for the purpose of assisting in the
assessment of athletics promise if tryouts are a part of the general
institutional policy in the evaluation and admission of students with
special talents. Tryouts, where permitted, shall be limited to no more than
two days for a specific student at a member institution.
B. No part of the travel expense,
meals, and lodging of prospective students making visitations to an
institution shall be paid by the institution unless such practice is a part
of the general institutional policy in procurement of other students with
special talents and not only for the express purpose of securing
athletes.
C. Visitation of prospective
students shall not involve loss of school time, except where such
visitation occurs as a part of the total visitation program of the
institution, approved by the administration of both the host institution
and the institution of the visiting prospective student.
