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Division I Proposal - 2022-16
AWARDS, BENEFITS AND EXPENSES -- BENEFITS AND EXPENSES FOR ENROLLED STUDENT-ATHLETES
Status: Adopted Final
Intent: To permit an institution to provide benefits and expenses for enrolled student-athletes, as specified.
A. Bylaws: Amend 12.1, as follows:
12.1 General Regulations. An individual must comply with the following to retain amateur status. (See Bylaw 12.12 regarding the eligibility restoration process.)
[12.1.1 unchanged.]
12.1.2 Amateur Status. An individual loses amateur status and thus shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition in a particular sport if the individual:
[12.1.2-(a) through 12.1.2-(g) unchanged.]
[12.1.2.1 through 12.1.2.3 unchanged.]
12.1.2.4 Exceptions to Amateurism Rule.
[12.1.2.4.1 through 12.1.2.4.3 unchanged.]
12.1.2.4.4 Exception for Insurance Against Disabling Injury or Illness, or Loss of Value. An individual may borrow against future earnings potential from an established, accredited commercial lending institution exclusively for the purpose of purchasing insurance incidental to participation in athletics (e.g., critical injury or illness, loss of value) (see Bylaw 16.11.1.4) (with no cash surrender value) against a disabling injury or illness that would prevent the individual from pursuing a chosen career or for the purpose of purchasing loss-of-value insurance, provided a third party (including a representative of an institution's athletics interests) is not involved in arrangements for securing the loan. However, an institution's president or chancellor (or a designated representative from outside the department of athletics) may designate an institutional staff member (or staff members) (e.g., professional sports counseling panel) to assist a student-athlete with arrangements for securing the loan and insurance. The institution shall retain copies of all documents related to loan transactions and insurance policies, regardless of whether the institution is involved in the arrangements.
[12.1.2.4.5 through 12.1.2.4.16 unchanged.]
[12.1.3 unchanged.]
B. Bylaws: Amend 14.5.1, as follows:
14.5.1 Residence Requirement -- General Principle. A student who transfers (see Bylaw 14.5.2) to a member institution from any collegiate institution is required to complete one full academic year of residence (see Bylaw 14.02.11) at the certifying institution before being eligible to compete for or to receive travel expenses from the member institution (see Bylaw 16.8.1), unless the student satisfies the applicable transfer requirements or qualifies for an exception as set forth in this bylaw.
[14.5.1.1 through 14.5.1.5 unchanged.]
C. Bylaws: Amend 15.2, as follows:
15.2 Elements of Financial Aid.
[15.2.1 unchanged.]
15.2.2 Room and Board. An institution may provide a student-athlete financial aid that includes the cost of room and board, based on the official allowance for a room as listed in the institution's official publication (e.g., catalog) and a board allowance that consists of three meals per day or the institution's maximum meal plan that is available to all students, whichever is greater.
15.2.2.1 Room and Board Stipend. An institution may provide the student-athlete an amount equal to the institution's official on-campus room allowance, the average of the room costs of all of its students living on campus or the cost of room as calculated based on its policies and procedures for calculating the cost of attendance for all students. The institution also may provide the student-athlete an amount that is equivalent to the value of the maximum meal plan that is available to all students or the cost of meals as calculated based on its policies and procedures for calculating the cost of attendance for all students, excluding those meals provided as part of the training table. Meals provided on the training table shall be deducted at the regular cost figure from such a student-athlete's board allowance.
[15.2.2.1.1 through 15.2.2.1.4 unchanged.]
15.2.2.1.5 Training-Table Meals. The cost of meals provided on the institution's training table shall be deducted from a student-athlete's board allowance. In determining the cost figure to be deducted, the institution may use the actual meal costs listed in the institution’s catalog or the average meal costs of its student-athletes living on campus.
15.2.2.1.6 Meals Incidental to Participation. The cost of meals and snacks provided as benefits incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics need not be deducted from a student-athlete's board allowance. Such meals and snacks also may be received by a student-athlete who is not receiving athletically related financial aid inasmuch as they constitute a benefit incidental to athletics participation [see Bylaw 16.5.2-(d)].
[15.2.2.2 unchanged.]
15.2.2.3 Summer Dormitory Rentals. An institution may rent dormitory space to a prospective or enrolled student-athlete during the summer months at the regular institutional rate, if it is the institution's policy to make such dormitory space available on the same basis to all prospective or enrolled students.
[15.2.2.4 renumbered as 15.2.2.3, unchanged.]
[15.2.3 through 15.2.8 unchanged.]
D. Bylaws: Amend 16.01, as follows:
16.01 General Principles.
16.01.1 Application of Bylaw 16 to Specific and Limited Extenuating Circumstances. For specific and limited extenuating circumstances, an institution is authorized to provide benefits and expenses for a student-athlete's personal health, safety and well-being. An institution should collaborate with applicable institutional financial aid, medical, legal and risk management personnel to determine how to best address individual student-athlete needs and corresponding institutional considerations.
[16.01.1 renumbered as 16.01.2, unchanged.]
E. Bylaws: Amend 16.2, as follows:
16.2 Complimentary Admissions and Ticket Benefits.
16.2.1 Permissible Procedures.
16.2.1.1 Institutional Events in the Student-Athlete's Sport. An institution may provide four complimentary admissions per home or away intercollegiate athletics event to a student-athlete in the sport in which the individual participates (either practices or competes), regardless of whether the student-athlete competes in the contest. Such complimentary admissions are for the use of the individuals designated by the student-athlete and may be issued through digital ticketing or a pass list on an individual-game basis. [R]
[16.2.1.1.1 through 16.2.1.1.2 unchanged.]
16.2.1.2 General Regulations. Complimentary admissions shall be provided only through a pass list for individuals designated by the student-athlete. "Hard tickets" shall not be issued. A violation of this administrative procedure shall be considered an institutional violation per Constitution 2.8.1; however, such a violation shall not affect the student-athlete's eligibility. The student-athlete's eligibility shall be affected by involvement in action contrary to the provisions of Bylaws 16.2.1.1 and 16.2.2.1 (receipt of more than the permissible four complimentary admissions or the sale or exchange of a complimentary admission for any item of value).
16.2.1.2.1 Issuance Procedures. The individual using the complimentary admission must present identification to the person supervising the use of the pass list at the admission gate. The individual then shall be provided a ticket stub or other identification of a specified reserved seat or seating area or treated as a general-admission ticket holder.
[16.2.1.2.1 through 16.2.1.2.2 renumbered as 16.2.1.1.0 through 16.2.1.1.1, unchanged.]
16.2.1.2 Institution's Home Events in Other Sports. An institution may provide admission for each student-athlete to all of the institution's regular-season home intercollegiate athletics events in sports other than that in which the student-athlete is a participant, via a printed student-athlete pass or gate list. Proof of identity shall be required upon admission. [R]
16.2.1.4 Student-Athlete Postseason Ticket Purchases. An institution may arrange for a student-athlete to purchase tickets at face value for a postseason an athletics event in which the student-athlete's team (or the student-athlete as an individual) participates. [R]
16.2.2 Nonpermissible Procedures.
[16.2.2.1 through 16.2.2.2 unchanged.]
16.2.2.3 Student-Athlete Ticket Purchases. An institution may not provide a special arrangement to sell a student-athlete ticket(s) to an athletics event, other than a postseason event as permitted in Bylaw 16.2.1.4. Tickets (other than for a postseason event) shall be available for purchase by student-athletes according to the same purchasing procedures used for other students. [R]
[16.2.2.3 renumbered as 16.2.2.2, unchanged.]
16.2.2.5 Professional Sports Tickets. An institution or any representative of its athletics interests may not purchase or otherwise obtain tickets to a professional sports event and make these tickets available to student-athletes enrolled in an NCAA member institution. Such a gift of tickets would represent an unacceptable extra benefit. Professional sports tickets may be provided as entertainment in conjunction with practice or competition. [R]
F. Bylaws: Amend 16.3, as follows:
16.3 Academic and Other Support Services.
16.3.1 Mandatory.
16.3.1.1 Academic Counseling/Support Services. Member institutions shall make general academic counseling and tutoring services available to all student-athletes. Such counseling and tutoring services may be provided by the department of athletics or the institution's nonathletics student support services. In addition, an institution, conference or the NCAA may finance other academic support, career counseling or personal development services and provide benefits and expenses that support or are incidental to the academic success of student-athletes.
[16.3.1.2 unchanged.]
[16.3.2 through 16.3.4 unchanged.]
G. Bylaws: Amend 16.5, as follows:
16.5 Housing and Meals.
16.5.1 General Rule. An institution is required to apply the same housing policies to student-athletes as it applies to the student body in general. During the academic year, the institution may not house student-athletes in athletics dormitories or athletics blocks within institutional or privately owned dormitories or apartment buildings (when the institution arranges for the housing) on those days when institutional dormitories are open to the general student body. [R]
[16.5.1.1 unchanged.]
16.5.1.2 Athletics Blocks. Athletics blocks shall be defined as individual blocks, wings or floors within institutional dormitories, or privately owned dormitories or apartment buildings where the institution has arranged housing for student-athletes, in which at least 50 percent of the residents are student-athletes.
[16.5.1.3 unchanged.]
16.5.2 Permissible. An institution may provide housing and meal benefits incidental to a student's participation in intercollegiate athletics as identified in this bylaw. [R]
16.5.2.1 Summer Dormitory Rentals. An institution may rent, at the regular institutional rate, dormitory space to a prospective or enrolled student-athlete during the summer months if it is the institution's policy to make dormitory space available on the same basis to all prospective or enrolled students (see Bylaw 15.2.2.3 for permissible housing benefits for student-athletes eligible to receive financial aid while attending summer school). [R]
16.5.2.2 Preseason Practice Expenses. An institution may provide the cost of room and board to student-athletes who report for preseason practice prior to the start of the academic year, it being understood that the student-athlete has been accepted for admission to the institution at the time such benefits are received. An institution may begin to provide such benefits as it deems necessary and appropriate for specific circumstances (e.g., international travel). [R]
[16.5.2.2.1 unchanged.]
16.5.2.3 Training Table Meals. An institution may provide only one training table meal per day to a student-athlete during the academic year on those days when regular institutional dining facilities are open (see Bylaw 15.2.2.1.5). A student-athlete who does not receive institutional athletically related financial aid covering the full cost of board, including a walk-on or partial scholarship recipient, may purchase one training table meal per day at the same rate that the institution deducts from the board allowance of student-athletes who receive athletically related financial aid covering board costs pursuant to Bylaw 15.2.2.1.5. [R]
16.5.2.4 Meals Incidental to Participation. An institution may provide meals to student-athletes as a benefit incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics. An institution shall not provide student-athletes with a meal and cash for the same meal. [R]
16.5.2.4.1 Cash for Missed Meal Due to Practice Activities. An institution may provide to a student-athlete the cash equivalent of a meal missed due to practice activities only if the student-athlete has previously paid for the meal (either individually or through the board element of a scholarship). [R]
16.5.2.4.2 Meals in Conjunction With Home Competition. All student-athletes are permitted to receive meals at the institution's discretion beginning with the evening before competition and continuing until they are released by institutional personnel. An institution shall not provide cash to student-athletes in lieu of meals during this time period. An institution, at its discretion, may provide a meal or cash (not to exceed $15), but not both, to student-athletes at the time of their release by institutional personnel. [R]
16.5.2.4.3 Meals in Conjunction With Away-from-Home Competition. On each day associated with an away-from-home competition (from the time the team is required to report on call for team travel until the team returns to campus) an institution may provide meals to student-athletes pursuant to one of the following options: [R]
(a) All student-athletes are permitted to receive a pregame or postgame meal as a benefit incidental to participation in addition to regular meals (or meal allowances per institutional policy). An institution, at its discretion, may provide cash, not to exceed $15, in lieu of a postgame meal; or
(b) All student-athletes are permitted to receive meals at the institution's discretion. If a student-athlete does not use team travel to return to campus, the student-athlete may receive meals at the institution's discretion up to the point the student-athlete is released from team-related activities by the appropriate institutional authority. An institution shall not provide cash to student-athletes in lieu of meals under this option before their release. An institution may provide a meal or cash (not to exceed $15), but not both, to a student-athlete at the time of release by the institutional authority, regardless of whether the student-athlete uses team travel to return to campus.
16.5.2.53 Meals and Snacks. An institution may provide meals and snacks to a student-athlete at any time. An institution shall not provide cash for a meal unless authorized by NCAA legislation. [R]
16.5.2.3.1 Meal Expenses in Conjunction with Competition and Practice Activities. An institution may provide a student-athlete with cash for a meal in conjunction with competition or a meal missed due to practice activities in a manner consistent with cash provided by the institution to institutional staff members on away-from-campus trips.
16.5.2.4 Meals Provided by a Representative of Athletics Interests. A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal from a representative of athletics interests on infrequent and special occasions.
16.5.2.65 Vacation-Period Expenses. An institution may provide the cost of room and board meals and lodging expenses to student-athletes (during official institutional vacation periods) in the following circumstances for a reasonable period when student-athletes are required to remain in the locale of the institution for organized practice sessions or competition. If an institution does not provide a meal to its student-athletes under such circumstances, a cash allowance may be provided, not to exceed the amount provided by the institution to institutional staff members on away-from-campus trips:. If a student-athlete lives at home during the vacation period, lodging expenses may not be provided by the institution. [R]
(a) Student-athletes who are required to remain on the institution's campus for organized practice sessions or competition during the institution's official vacation period. If the student-athlete lives at home during the vacation period, the cost of room and board may not be provided by the institution, other than to permit the student-athlete to participate in team meals incidental to participation;
(b) Student-athletes who return to campus during the institution's official vacation period occurring during a regular academic term (not including vacation periods between terms) from institutional competition. Under such circumstances, room and board expenses may be provided beginning with the student-athlete's arrival on campus until the institution's regular dormitories and dining facilities reopen. If the student-athlete lives at home during the vacation period, the cost of room and board may not be provided by the institution;
(c) Student-athletes who return to campus during the institution's official vacation period between regular academic terms (e.g., summer-vacation period) from institutional competition that occurs at the end of the institution's playing and practice season or a segment thereof. Under such circumstances, room and board expenses may be provided for not more than a 48-hour period, beginning with the student-athlete's return to campus. If the student-athlete lives at home during the vacation period, the cost of room and board may not be provided by the institution; or
(d) In basketball, student-athletes who remain on campus during the three consecutive days off during the institution's official vacation period after the first term of the academic year (see Bylaw 17.1.7.10). If the student-athlete lives at home during the vacation period, the cost of room and board may not be provided by the institution.
[16.5.2.6 through 16.5.2.7 renumbered as 16.5.2.5 through 16.5.2.6, unchanged.]
H. Bylaws: Amend 16.7, as follows:
16.7 Entertainment. An institution, conference or the NCAA may provide reasonable entertainment (but may not provide cash for such entertainment) to student-athletes during the playing season, outside the playing season during the academic year when classes are in session and during the period in which they are required to participate in summer athletic activities pursuant to Bylaw 17.1.7.2.1.6 at any time. [R]
I. Bylaws: Amend 16.8, as follows:
16.8 Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition.
16.8.1 Permissible. An institution, conference or the NCAA may provide actual and necessary expenses to a student-athlete to represent the institution in practice and competition (including expenses for activities/travel that are incidental to practice or competition). In order to receive competition-related expenses, the student-athlete must be eligible for competition practice. [D]
[16.8.1.1 unchanged.]
16.8.1.2 Other Competition Events. During an academic year in which a student-athlete is eligible to represent an institution in athletics competition (or in the following summer) or in the summer prior to initial full-time enrollment at the institution, provided the student-athlete is eligible to represent the institution in athletics competition during the ensuing academic year, an institution may provide actual and necessary expenses related to participation in the following activities: [R]
(a) Established regional (e.g., North American Championships, European Championships) and national championship events (including junior regional and national championships) and qualifying competition for such events;
(b) The Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Pan American Games, Parapan American Games, World Championships, World Cup, World University Games (Universiade) and World University Championships or the junior level equivalent competition (e.g., Youth Olympic Games, Junior World Championships, U19 World University Games) and specific qualifying competition (e.g., Olympic or Paralympic Trials) from which participants may directly qualify for such events; and
(c) National team tryout training, tryouts or competition events used for consideration for selection or to determine members of a national team that will participate in the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Pan American Games, Parapan American Games, World Championships, World Cup, World University Games (Universiade) or World University Championships or the junior level equivalent competition, including events from which participants are selected for another tier of tryout competition or events from which final selections are made for the national team.
[16.8.1.3 unchanged.]
[16.8.2 unchanged.]
J. Bylaws: Amend 16.9, as follows:
16.9 Other Travel Expenses Provided by the Institution.
16.9.1 Permissible Travel Expenses Not Related to Practice or Competition. An institution, conference or the NCAA may provide actual and necessary expenses to a student-athlete to represent the institution in noncompetitive events and activities incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics [e.g., goodwill tours, media appearances (see Bylaw 12.5.3), student-athlete advisory committee meetings]. Further, an institution may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes on an occasional basis. [R]
K. Bylaws: Amend 16.11, as follows:
16.11 Benefits, Gifts and Services.
16.11.1 Permissible.
[16.11.1.1 through 16.11.1.3 unchanged.]
16.11.1.4 Insurance Against Disabling-Injury or Illness, or Loss of Value. A An institution may purchase insurance or a student-athlete may borrow against future earnings potential from an established, accredited commercial lending institution, exclusively for the purpose of purchasing insurance incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics (e.g., critical injury or illness, loss of value) (with no cash surrender value) or insurance against a disabling injury or illness that would prevent the individual from pursuing a chosen career or for the purpose of purchasing loss-of-value insurance, provided a third party (including a representative of an institution's athletics interests) is not involved in arrangements for securing the loan. However, an institution's president or chancellor (or designated representative from outside the athletics department) may designate an institutional staff member (or staff members) (e.g., professional sports counseling panel) to assist a student-athlete with arrangements for securing the loan and insurance. The institution shall retain copies of all documents related to loan transactions and insurance policies, regardless of whether the institution is involved in the arrangements. [R]
16.11.1.5 Occasional Meals. A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal in the locale of the institution on infrequent and special occasions from an institutional staff member. An institutional staff member may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend such meals. A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal from a representative of athletics interests on infrequent and special occasions under the following conditions: [R]
(a) The meal may only be provided in an individual's home, on campus or at a facility that is regularly used for home competition and may be catered; and
(b) A representative of the institution's athletics interests may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend the meal function only if the meal function is at the home of that representative.
[16.11.1.6 through 16.11.1.8 renumbered as 16.11.1.5 through 16.11.1.7, unchanged.]
16.11.1.9 Coaching and/or Athletics Administration Career Educational Programs. An institution or conference may provide actual and necessary expenses to a student-athlete, who has completed the third year (sixth semester or ninth quarter) of collegiate enrollment to attend a coaching and/or athletics administration career educational program (e.g., Women's Basketball Coaches Association -- So You Want To Be A Coach, Black Women in Sports Foundation -- Next Step Program, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee -- Minority/Women in Coaching Leadership). [R]
16.11.1.10 Career Counseling and Internship/Job Placement Services. A student-athlete may use career counseling and internship/job placement services available exclusively to student-athletes, provided the student-athlete is not placed in a position in which the student-athlete uses athletics ability.
16.11.2 Nonpermissible.
[16.11.2.1 unchanged.]
16.11.2.2 Other Prohibited Benefits. An institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests may not provide a student-athlete with extra benefits or services, including, but not limited to: [R]
(a) A loan of money;
(b) A guarantee of bond;
(c) An automobile or the use of an automobile; or
(d) Transportation (e.g., a ride home with a coach), except as permitted in Bylaw 16.9.1, even if the student-athlete reimburses the institution or the staff member for the appropriate amount of the gas or expense; or
(e d) Signing or co-signing a note with an outside agency to arrange a loan.
[16.11.2.3 through 16.11.2.4 unchanged.]
L. Bylaws: Amend 17.31, as follows:
17.31 Foreign Tours.
17.31.1 Institutional Tours. A member institution may participate in competition in any sport on foreign tours.
[17.31.1.1 through 17.31.1.3 unchanged.]
17.31.1.4 Eligibility of Student-Athletes. The eligibility of student-athletes on the tour shall be governed by the following (see Bylaw 12.8.3.6):
[17.31.1.4-(a) through 17.31.1.4-(b) unchanged.]
[17.31.1.4.1 unchanged.]
17.31.1.4.2 Eligibility for Travel Expenses. An institution may provide actual and necessary expenses to a student-athlete to travel on a foreign tour, provided the student-athlete is eligible to practice.
[17.31.1.5 through 17.31.1.10 unchanged.]
[17.31.2 unchanged.]
M. Bylaws: Amend 17.33, as follows:
17.33 Outside Competition, Effects on Eligibility. The eligibility of a student-athlete who engages in outside competition (see Bylaw 17.02.11) is affected as set forth in the following regulations.
[17.33.1 through 17.33.2 unchanged.]
17.33.3 Exceptions -- All Sports. The following exceptions to the outside-competition regulations are permitted:
[17.33.3-(a) through 17.33.3-(b) unchanged.]
(c) Olympic or Paralympic Games. A student-athlete may participate in the official Olympic or Paralympic Games, in final tryouts that directly qualify competitors for the Olympic or Paralympic Games, and in officially recognized competition directly qualifying participants for final Olympic or Paralympic Games tryouts.
(d) Official Pan American or Parapan American Games Tryouts and Competition. A student-athlete may participate in official Pan American or Parapan American Games tryouts and competition.
(e) U.S. National Teams. A student-athlete may participate in official tryouts and competition involving national teams and junior national teams sponsored by the appropriate national governing bodies of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (or, for the student-athletes representing another nation, the equivalent organization of that nation or, for student-athletes competing in a non-Olympic or non-Paralympic sport, the equivalent organization of that sport).
(f) Official World Championships, World University Games (Universiade), World University Championships and World Cup Tryouts and Competition. A student-athlete may participate in official World Championships, World University Games (Universiade), World University Championships and World Cup tryouts and competition.
[17.33.3-(g) relettered as 17.33.3-(c), unchanged.]
(d) Established Regional and National Championships. A student-athlete may participate in established regional (e.g., North American Championships, European Championships) and national championship events (including junior regional and national championships) and qualifying competition for such events.
(e) International Events. A student-athlete may participate in the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Pan American Games, Parapan American Games, World Championships, World Cup, World University Games (Universiade) and World University Championships or the junior level equivalent competition (e.g., Youth Olympic Games, Junior World Championships, U19 World University Games) and qualifying competition (e.g., Olympic or Paralympic Trials) for such events.
(f) National Team Tryouts. A student-athlete may participate in national team training, tryouts or competition events used for consideration for selection or to determine members of a national team that will participate in the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Pan American Games, Parapan American Games, World Championships, World Cup, World University Games (Universiade) or World University Championships or the junior level equivalent competition.
(g) National Team Competition. A student-athlete may participate in competition involving national teams and junior national teams sponsored by the appropriate national governing bodies of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (or, for the student-athletes representing another nation, the equivalent organization of that nation or, for student-athletes competing in a non-Olympic or non-Paralympic sport, the equivalent organization of that sport).
[17.33.3.1 unchanged.]
[17.33.4 through 17.33.5 unchanged.]
N. Bylaws: Amend 17.3, as follows:
17.3 Baseball. Regulations for computing the baseball playing season are set forth in Bylaw 17.1. (See Figure 17-1 and Figure 17-2.)
[17.3.1 through 17.3.7 unchanged.]
17.3.8 Other Restrictions.
[17.3.8.1 through 17.3.8.2 unchanged.]
17.3.8.3 Varsity Squad Size Limitation -- Championship Segment. An institution shall declare a varsity squad of a maximum of 35 student-athletes by the day prior to its first scheduled contest in the championship segment of the playing and practice season. Only those student-athletes who are declared as varsity squad members at that time shall be eligible to participate in countable athletically related activities with the varsity squad during the remainder of the championship segment. Declared varsity squad members shall not participate in countable athletically related activities with an institution's subvarsity team (e.g., freshman, junior varsity). A student-athlete who is a counter (per Bylaw 15.5.1) must be included in the varsity squad limit.
17.3.8.3.1 Exception -- Season-Ending Injury. An institution may replace a varsity squad member who sustains a season-ending injury prior to the institution’s first scheduled competition in the championship segment, provided medical documentation verifies the student-athlete suffered an incapacitating injury or illness and is unable to participate in team practice and competition for the remainder of the academic year. The student-athlete selected as a replacement shall not have previously received athletically related financial aid and must have participated with the team during the fall academic term.
17.3.8.3.1.1 Application to Replaced Student-Athlete. A student-athlete who has been replaced as a varsity squad member due to a season-ending injury may participate in the following countable athletically related activities with the varsity team:
[17.3.8.3.1.1-(a) unchanged.]
(b) Dress in uniform and be in the dugout during home contests; and
[17.3.8.3.1.1-(c) unchanged.]
[17.3.8.3.2 unchanged.]
Source: NCAA Division I Board of Directors (NCAA Division I Transformation Committee)
Effective Date:Immediate
Proposal Category: Amendment
Topical Area: Awards, Benefits and Expenses
Rationale: The NCAA Division I Transformation Committee charged the NCAA Division I Legislative Committee Modernization of the Rules Subcommittee with effectuating transformational change in modernizing the division's rules. In reviewing existing rules, the subcommittee was instructed to assess whether regulation is necessary on the national level. If regulation is necessary, it should prioritize the needs of the modern student-athlete. This proposal recognizes that national regulation in specified areas of Bylaw 16 is not necessary and institutions are in the best position to determine the individual needs of student-athletes at a local level. Specifically, institutions should be afforded discretion when supporting a student-athlete's health, safety and well-being needs and academic success. Institutional collaboration between medical, nutrition, financial aid and athletics staff, rather than national regulation, should determine the benefits necessary to support student-athletes' needs and ensure the provision of benefits does not result in a student-athlete exceeding cost-of-attendance.
Estimated Budget Impact: Costs associated with providing benefits and expenses to student-athletes.
Impact on Student-Athlete's Time (Academic and/or Athletics): None.
History
| Aug 3, 2022: | Adopted Final | Adopted by the Board of Directors as emergency legislation. |
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