PairOfAces wrote:I have looked everywhere I can think of on the web looking to have this explained, with no success.
Did you look in the NCAA manual for that division? You can download them for free -
https://www.ncaapublications.com/s-13-Manuals.aspx.
Need more info:
- Is this D1? Assuming it is...
- Is this an institutional camp or a private one?
- Website link for camp?
D1 has exception for sports camps and clinics:
13.12.1 Institution’s Sports Camps and Clinics.
13.12.1.1 Definition. An institution’s sports camp or instructional clinic shall be any camp or clinic that is owned or operated by a member institution or an employee of the member institution’s athletics department,
either on or off its campus, and in which prospective student-athletes participate. (Adopted: 1/11/89, Revised: 1/10/90, 4/26/01 effective 8/1/01)
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13.12.1.5 Recruiting Calendar Exceptions. The interaction during sports camps and clinics between prospective student-athletes and those coaches employed by the camp or clinic is not subject to the recruiting calendar restrictions. However, an institutional staff member employed at any camp or clinic (e.g., counselor, director) is prohibited from recruiting any prospective student-athlete during the time period that the camp or clinic is conducted (from the time the prospective student-athlete reports to the camp or clinic until the conclusion of all camp activities). The prohibition against recruiting includes extending written offers of financial aid to any prospective student-athlete during his or her attendance at the camp or clinic (see Bylaw 13.9.2.2), but does not include recruiting conversations between the certifying institution’s coach and a participating prospective student-athlete during the institution’s camps or clinics. Other coaches wishing to attend the camp as observers must comply with appropriate recruiting contact and evaluation periods. In addition, institutional camps or clinics may not be conducted during a dead period. (Revised: 4/3/02, 4/26/12)
13.12.1.5.1 Exception—Recruiting Conversations—Lacrosse. ...
13.12.1.5.2 Campus Tours During Institutional Camps or Clinics—Sports Other Than Women’s Basketball. In sports other than women’s basketball, an institution’s coach may arrange and conduct a campus tour during the institution’s camp or clinic, provided the format of the tour has been approved by an institutional authority outside the athletics department (e.g., admissions office). (Adopted: 7/23/15, Revised: 4/26/17, 4/26/17 effective 8/1/17)
D1 bylaw for non-institutional softball camps changed this year:
13.12.2.3.6 Noninstitutional, Privately Owned Camps/Clinics—Softball. In softball, an institution’s coach or noncoaching staff member with responsibilities specific to softball may be employed (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) in any capacity (e.g., counselor, guest lecturer, consultant) in a noninstitutional, privately owned camp or clinic, provided the camp or clinic is operated in accordance with restrictions applicable to an institutional camp or clinic (e.g., open to any and all entrants, no free or reduced admission to or employment of athletics award winners).
Employment in such a camp or clinic is limited to periods when evaluation at nonscholastic practice or competition activities is permissible. During periods in which it is not permissible to evaluate at nonscholastic practice or competition activities, an institution’s coach or noncoaching staff member with responsibilities specific to softball may be employed (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) only at institutional (his or her own or another institution’s) camps or clinics that occur on any institution’s campus or at a facility regularly used by the institution for practice or competition. [D] (Adopted: 4/26/17 effective 8/1/17)