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Amatuerism-Eligibility Requirements
When you register with the Clearinghouse, you will be asked about the benefits and activities that might impact your status as an amateur. The following activities will be reviewed:
- Contracts with a professional team
- Salary for participating in athletics
- Prize money
- Play with professionals
- Tryouts, practice or competition with a professional team
- Benefits from an agent or prospective agent
- Agreement to be represented by an agent
- Delayed initial full-time collegiate enrollment to participate in organized sports competition
Overview of NCAA Division I and II Pre-Enrollment Amateurism Bylaws
| Permissible in Division I? | Permissible in Division II? | |
| Enters into a Contract with a Professional Team | No | Yes |
| Accepts Prize Money | Yes. If it is an open event, and does not exceed actual and necessary expenses. | Yes |
| Enters Draft | Yes | Yes |
| Accepts Salary | No | Yes |
| Receives Expenses from a Professional Team | No | Yes |
| Competes on a team with Professionals | No | Yes |
| Tryouts with a Professional Team before Initial Collegiate Enrollment | Yes. May receive actual and necessary expenses for one visit (up to 48 hours) from each professional team. Self-financed try-outs may be for more than 48 hours. | Yes |
| Receives Benefits from an agent | No | No |
| Enters into an agreement with an Agent (oral or written) | No | No |
| Delays Full-Time Collegiate Enrollment and Participates in Organized Competition |
Tennis, Swimming and Diving: Have one year after high school graduation to enroll full time in a collegiate institution or will lose one season of intercollegiate competition for each calendar year during which you continue to participate in organized competition.
All Other Sports: Any participation in organized sports competition during each 12-month period after your 21st birthday and beofre initial full-time enrollment in a collegiate institution shall count as one year of varsity competion. |
Must enroll at the next opportunity (excluding summer) immediately after the date that your high school graduation class normally graduates (or the international equivalent) or you will use a season of intercollegiate competition for each calendar year or sports season (subsequent to that date) in which you have participated in organized competition. |
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