USIAA Recruiting Rules:
Note: These new rules apply to every D1, D2, D3, & D4 sport.
All merged divisional sports will follow the same rules for recruiting as D3/D4 sports. Examples of merged divisional sports:
There must be NO communication between a coach and athlete until the following dates:
No official or unofficial visits until the following dates:
No off-campus contact will be allowed for any athlete, regardless of sport(s) they participate in, until August 1 of junior year (D1 only) or sophomore year (D2-D4 only):
Restrictions for all athletes & institutions:
- A single division sport (1/2/3/4), or
- A two-division sport (1/2 & 3/4), or
- Has a merged division (1/2, 3, 4 or 1, 2, 3/4).
There must be NO communication between a coach and athlete until the following dates:
- D1 & D2 = June 15 after sophomore year.
- D3 & D4 = September 15 of freshman year.
- Coach communication includes any phone, text, email or social media communication between a student-athlete or parent/guardian and a college coach.
- However, coaches can talk with any athlete as long as the athlete initiated the phone call/ text message, but only until June 15 after freshman year (D2 only) or April 15 of sophomore year (D1 only).
No official or unofficial visits until the following dates:
- D1 = August 1 of junior year.
- D2 = August 1 of sophomore year.
- D3 & D4 = September 15 of freshman year.
- Any visit to a college campus that is financed by the school will count as an official visit.
- Any visit paid for by the family that includes a recruiting conversation with the coaching staff will count as an unofficial visit.
- Athletes can still check out a campus and/or go any sporting event on the campus as many times as they please before the respective dates, but they can’t talk about recruiting with any coach or other university official.
- All athletes can only have a max of 1 official visit to any USIAA school, but have an unlimited number of unofficial visits.
No off-campus contact will be allowed for any athlete, regardless of sport(s) they participate in, until August 1 of junior year (D1 only) or sophomore year (D2-D4 only):
- Off-campus contact is defined as any time a coach has face-to-face contact with student-athletes or parents off the college campus and says more than hello.
- However, coaches can still come watch athletes play before August 1 of junior year.
Restrictions for all athletes & institutions:
- All athletes can only select a max of 5 D1 institutions that are located outside of the state and/or super region that they have 1) permanently resided in & 2) have attended school in for at least 90 consecutive days; This limit does not apply to D2, D3, & D4 institutions.
- All institutions can only directly recruit athletes that are located within either 1) the super region that the school resides in & 2) anywhere outside of the super region but inside 500mi radius of the schools location.
- No verbal offers or commitments from student-athletes until September 15 of junior year (D1 only), or June 15 after sophomore year (D2-D4 only).