Compliance

Compliance Question of the Week
For the week of July 10, 2006

Owning Your Camp or Clinic

Question:  What percentage or ownership by an athletics staff member causes a camp or clinic to be considered "institutional"?

Answer:  51% - this means that if you are a member of the Pace Athletics coaching staff, are incorporated and have a "privately owned" camp, you are still required to follow all the NCAA guidelines for institutional camps and clinics.  As long as you remain employed by a collegiate athletics department and operate a camp or clinic through your incorporated name, any type of correspondence that reads "institutional camps or clinics" will pertain to your operation.

Question: Is it permissible to invite select prospects to attend an institutions camp?

Answer:  Yes, but only if it is legitimately advertised, making it open to all participants (restricted only by number of participants and age) and the coach cannot work exclusively with the prospects.  Additionally, you may NOT give free or reduced admission privileges to an individual who has started the ninth grade (they are considered a prospect for Pace, even if they are not in the sport you mainly coach).

Question: May institutional athletics department personnel who own or operate a camp or clinic hire a prospect to work at the camp or clinic?

Answer:  No, an institution, members of its staff or representatives of its athletics interests shall not employ or give free or reduced admission privileges to a high school, prep school, two-year or four-year college transfers.  [Bylaw 13.12.1.5.1]. 

Question:  May currently enrolled student-athletes participate as campers in their institutional camps or clinics (institutional camps include those owned and operated by Pace coaching staff)?

Answer:  NO.

Question :  What are the three types of camps and/or clinics that are regulated by the NCAA?

Answer: 

1.     Developmental clinics - NOT designed for the advanced prospect - NCAA defines a "developmental clinic" as one that:  teaches the BASICS; open enrollment (limited only through number and age); is conducted by the institution; is for educational purposes only; NO material benefits (i.e., awards, trophies, shirts, "souvenirs") are provided to participants; NO recruiting presentations. 

-  Developmental clinics may occur anytime EXCEPT during a dead period. 

-  All participants must live in-state or within a 100-mile radius of the camp or clinic

2.     Institutional - as pointed out earlier, institutional camps are those owned and operated by Pace University OR those owned and operated by Pace Athletics staff members.

3. Non-institutional or private - camps that are owned or operated by individuals/companies who are not employed by Pace University. The NCAA regulation in this area is mainly in regards to athletics department personnel and their functions within these settings [Bylaw 13.12.2.3.3].