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Athletic Related Activities

The following are considered athletic related activities:

  • Practice, which is defined as any meeting, ,activity or instruction involving sports-related information and having an athletic purpose, held for one or more student-athletes at the direction of, or supervised by, any member or members of an institution's coaching staff. Practice is considered to have occurred if one or more coaches and one or more student-athletes engage in any of the following activites:
    • Field, floor or on-court activity;
    • Setting up offensive or defensive alignment;
    • Chalk talk;
    • Lecture on or discussion of strategy related to the sport;
    • Activities using equipment related to the sport;
    • Discussions or review of game films, motion pictures or videotapes related to the sport; or
    • Any other athletically related activity.
  • Competition;
  • Required weight-training and conditioning activities held at the direction of or supervised by an institutional staff member;
  • Participation in a physical fitness class (including summer class) conducted by a member of the athletics staff not listed in the institutions catalog and not open to all students. Such a class may not include practice activities conducted under the guise of physical education class work;
  • Required participation in camps, clinics or workshops;
  • Individual workouts required or supervised by a member of the coaching staff. A coach may design a voluntary general individual-workout program for a student-athlete (as opposed to a specific workout program for specific days) but cannot conduct the individual's workout;
  • On-court or on-field activities called by any member(s) of a team and confined primarily to members of that team are considered requisite for participation in that sport (e.g., captains practice);
  • Visiting the competition site in cross country, golf and skiing;
  • Reservation or use of an institution's athletics facilities when such activities are supervised by or held at the direction of any member of an institution's coaching staff;
  • Involvement of an institution's strength and conditioning staff with enrolled student-athletes in required conditioning programs; and
  • Observations by an institution's coaching staff member of enrolled student-athletes in non-organized sport specific activities.