SJU Prospective Student-Athletes

Renie Shields - Director for Compliance Services
Phone: 610-660-2584
Fax: 610-660-1716
Email: shields@sju.edu

Deirdre Mattocks - Assistant Director for Compliance Services
Phone: 610-660-3293
Fax: 610-660-1716
Email: dmattock@sju.edu

Important Websites:

NCAA Website

NCAA Website - Guide to the College Bound Student Athlete

National Letter of Intent Website

NCAA Eligibility Center

SJU Admissions

Recruiting Information

When do I become a prospective student-athlete?
The NCAA defines a prospective student-athlete (PSA) as any student who has started classes for the ninth grade. In addition, any student who has not started classes for the ninth grade becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution or a representative of the institution's athletics interests provides such a student (or a student's family or friends) with any financial assistance or other benefit(s) that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally.

What activities consider me to be a recruited student-athlete:
The coach provide you with an official visit, place more than one telephone call to you or any member of your family or Visits you (or any member of your family) anywhere other than the institution's campus.

When am I able to talk with a coach?
Restrictions are put in place by the NCAA and all coaches are to follow the rules. You as a Prospective Student-Athlete may call or write a coaching staff member at any time.

Can I call coaches collect or toll free? When?
Yes, as long as the call is on or after July 1st after you complete your junior year of high school.

When can I call coaches at my own expense?
Institutional coaching staff members may receive telephone calls placed by a prospective student-athlete at the prospective student-athlete's own expense at any time including before July 1 following the prospective student-athlete's junior year in high school.

How many times can I talk with a coach per week?
Telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete [or the prospective student-athlete's relatives or legal guardian(s)] may NOT be made before July 1 following the completion of the prospective student-athlete's junior year in high school; thereafter, staff members shall not make such telephone calls more than once per week.

Can I e-mail a coach?
Electronically transmitted correspondence that may be sent to a prospective student-athlete is limited to electronic mail and facsimiles. All other forms of electronically transmitted correspondence (e.g. Instant Messenger, text messaging) are prohibited.

Who can call me on the phone? When and how often?
On or after July 1st after the completion of your junior year in high school, faculty members and coaches are permitted to call you or your parents/legal guardians once per week.

When can a coach call me anytime?
At the following time: During the five (5) days prior to your official visit to that university; On the day of the coach's off-campus contact with you; During the period 48 hours before and 48 hours after 7 a.m. on the initial signing date for the National Letter of Intent (NLI).

What is considered a contact?
A contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's parents, relatives or legal guardian(s) and an institution staff member or athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting.

What is an evaluation?
Evaluation is any off-campus activity designed to assess the academic qualifications or athletics ability of a prospective student-athlete, including any visit to a prospective student-athlete's educational institution (during which no contact occurs) or the observation of a prospective student-athlete participating in any practice or competition at any site.

Official Visits
An official visit to a member institution by a prospective student-athlete is a visit financed in whole or in part by the member institution

How many official visits am I allowed to take? Beginning when?
Each prospective student athlete is limited to five official visits (one per institution), that may be taken following the opening day of classes of your senior year in high school.

What do I need to do before going on an official visit?
The recruiting institution must have a high school or college transcript, ACT/SAT scores on file and you must be registered with the NCAA Clearinghouse.

Unofficial Visits
An unofficial visit to a member institution by a prospective student-athlete is a visit made at the prospective student-athletes own expense. The provision of any expenses or entertainment by the institution or representatives of its athletics interests shall require the visit to become an official visit.

Can I pay my own way to visit a college campus? Starting when?
You may visit an institution's campus at your own expense an unlimited number of times beginning before your senior year of high school and continuing in your senior year. This is considered an unofficial visit.

What can the school give me when I go on an unofficial visit?
A maximum of three (3) complimentary admissions to a campus athletic event in which that institution's team is competing, provided it is done through a gate pass list. The prospective student athlete and those persons accompanying the prospective student athlete can only use such complementary admissions. They can only be issued on an individual game basis.

Recruiting Calendars

Amateurism

Amateurism Certification Process
An institution shall use an initial eligibility center approved by the Executive Committee to determine the validity of the information on which the amateur status of a student-athlete is based.

Financial Aid

SJU Financial Aid

NCAA Bylaw on Athletic Aid

What is Financial Aid?
Financial aid is funds provided to student-athletes from various sources to pay or assist in paying their coast of education at the institution. As used in NCAA legislation, financial aid includes all institutional financial aid and other permissible financial aid.

How much Financial Aid can I receive?
A student-athlete can receive up to the cost of attendance for the university. Cost of attendance is an amount calculated by an institutional financial aid office, using federal regulations, that includes the total cost of tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation and other expenses related to attendance at the institution.

What is Cost of Attendance?
It is the amount calculated by an institutional financial aid office, using federal regulations, that includes the total cost of tuition and fees room and board, books and supplies, transportation, and other expenses related to attendance at the institution.

How long do I receive Financial Aid?
If a student's athletics ability is considered in any degree in awarding financial aid, such aid shall neither be awarded for a period in excess of one academic year not for a period less than one academic year.

Can my Financial Aid be Renewed?
The renewal of institutional financial aid each year based in any degree on athletics ability shall be made on or before July 1 prior to the academic year in which is it to be effective. The institution shall promptly notify in writing each student-athlete who received an award the previous academic year and who has eligibility remaining in the sport in which financial aid was awarded the previous academic year whether the grant has been renewed or not renewed for the ensuing academic year.

Can my Financial Aid not be renewed?
It is permissible for an institution that has notified a student-athlete that he or she will not be provided institutional financial aid for the next academic year subsequently to award financial aid to that student-athlete