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Bylaw 20.9.6.3
20.9.6.3 Minimum Contests and Participants Requirements for Sports Sponsorship. In each sport, the institution's team shall engage in at least a minimum number of intercollegiate contests (against four-year, degree-granting collegiate institutions) each year. In the individual sports and women's rowing, the institution's team shall include a minimum number of participants in each contest that is counted toward meeting the minimum-contests requirement. The following minimums are applicable: (Revised: 1/11/94 effective 9/1/94, 1/12/99, 1/25/02 effective 8/1/02, 10/31/02, 4/28/05 effective 8/1/05, 1/17/09 effective 8/1/09, 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11, 1/18/14 effective 8/1/14, 7/31/15, 4/28/16 effective 8/1/16, 4/25/18 effective 8/1/18, 6/23/20 effective 8/1/20, 4/26/23 effective 8/1/23, 6/26/24 effective 8/1/24)
| Team Sports | Minimum Contests | Minimum Participants | Individual Sports | Minimum Contests | Minimum Participants |
| Women's Acrobatics and Tumbling | 6 | 18 | Women's Bowling | 8 | 5 |
| Baseball | 27 | Cross Country | 4 | 5 | |
| Basketball | 25 | Equestrian | 6 | 12 | |
| Women's Beach Volleyball | 8 | Men's Fencing | 9 | 5 | |
| Field Hockey | 11 | Women's Fencing | 9 | 5 | |
| Football | 9 | Golf | 8 | 4 | |
| Men's Ice Hockey | 25 | Men's Gymnastics | 8 | 6 | |
| Women's Ice Hockey | 20 | Women's Gymnastics | 9 | 5 | |
| Lacrosse | 10 | Rifle | 8 | 4 | |
| Women's Rowing | 6 | 23 | Skiing | 5 | 5 |
| Women's Rugby | 9 | Swimming and Diving | 6 | 11 | |
| Soccer | 11 | Tennis | 12 | 5 | |
| Softball | 27 | Track and Field, Indoor | 4 | 14 | |
| Women's Stunt | 8 | 16 | Track and Field, Outdoor | 4 | 14 |
| Volleyball | 19 | Women's Triathlon | 4 | 3 | |
| Men's Water Polo | 15 | Men's Wrestling | 13 | 7 | |
| Women's Water Polo | 10 | Women's Wrestling | 13 | 7 |
(Note: The minimum-contest requirements set forth in Bylaws 20.9.6.3.1 through 20.9.6.3.9 apply only to the provisions of this section and do not apply to minimum-contest requirements in Bylaw 17.)