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In this section, you will find answers to some of the most frequently-asked questions about compliance for "representatives of athletics interests", commonly known as "boosters". You are considered a booster if you:

· Have participated in or are a member of an agency or organization that promotes Stonehill College's athletics programs

· Made financial contributions to Stonehill's athletics or its booster organizations (or are a member of these organizations)

· Have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes;

· Provided benefits (e.g., jobs, occasional meals) to enrolled student-athletes at Stonehill

· Purchased season tickets for any Stonehill athletics program

· Are a former student or fan of Stonehill College

· Arranged for or provided employment for enrolled student-athletes.

Once you become a booster, you retain that identity forever. As a booster, you are responsible for knowing the NCAA, NEC and Stonehill rules that apply to you, and Stonehill College is held accountable for your actions. This website serves as a basic guide to the information you need, but if you have any questions about the rules or regulations, please reach out to the Athletics Compliance Office. Thank you for your support, Go Skyhawks!
 

Frequently Asked Questions
 

Who is a Prospective Student Athlete ("Prospect")?
A prospective student-athlete ("prospect") is a student who has started classes for the ninth grade. Additionally, a student who has not started classes for the ninth grade becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides such an individual (or the individual's relatives or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally.

What is an "extra benefit"?
An extra benefit is any special arrangement to provide a student-athlete or their relatives or friends with a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Such benefits include, but are not limited to: the provision of any transportation, meals, clothes, entertainment, preferential loan terms, wages not commensurate with duties, or other benefits which are unavailable to the general student population (unrelated to athletics ability).

As an athletics representative/booster, can I call a recruit?

A booster may speak to a prospective student-athlete via the telephone only if the prospective student-athlete initiates the telephone conversation and the call is not for recruiting purposes. Under such circumstances, the representative must refer questions about the institution's athletics program to the athletics department staff.

What can an athletics representative/booster do with "prospects"?
An athletics representative may attend a prospective student-athlete's athletics contest (i.e., high school or two-year college) on his or her own initiative. However, it should be understood that the athletics representative may not have contact with the prospect (or his or her family members) on such occasions. If you are ever put in a position where a prospect, or their parents, begin raising questions about Stonehill Athletics, please explain that NCAA rules prohibit you from discussing athletics with them. Please direct their inquiries to the Stonehill Athletics Department.

· You may continue established family relationships with friends and neighbors. Contacts with sons and daughters of those families are permitted as long as they are not made for recruiting purposes and are not prompted by Wagner coaching staff members. You are permitted to engage in your normal activities with prospects and their parents who are family friends.

· Feel free to attend a public event (i.e. awards dinner) at which prospects are in attendance. No attempt should be made to contact or recruit the prospect at these events.

Impermissible activities of Boosters:

As an athletics representative/booster, you may not provide a student-athlete or a student-athlete’s friends, relatives, or guardians:

· Benefits or gifts based upon the student-athlete’s athletic performance.

· Tickets to college or professional sporting events.

· Cash or loan or signing or co-signing of a loan.

· Transportation, payment of expense or loan of any automobile.

· Free or reduced rent or housing.
 

You may also not engage in any of the following conduct:

· Provide gifts or free or reduced-cost services to a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian.

· Employ relatives, guardians or friends of a prospect as an inducement for the prospect’s enrollment and athletics participation at a university.

· Provide transportation for a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian.

· Provide free or reduced-cost tickets for a prospect or the prospect’s relatives or guardian to attend an athletic event.

· Provide any material benefit (e.g., meals, cash) to the coach of a prospect, including high school, two-year college, AAU and summer team coaches.

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