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College Recruitment Brochure

Updates from NCAA due to COVID-19 -

Here's some of the Updates because of COVID-19

 

  • The NCAA has limited all in-person recruiting activity through June 30th
  • Recruits can still contact college coaches, as they always can at any time in the process
  • College coaches may still contact recruits by email, phone, text and video chat (ex. FaceTime) within existing compliance 
  • June 15th after a prospects' Sophomore Year is still the first day a Division I or Division II Soccer coach can contact a recruit
  • The NCAA is allowing schools to use money out of their NCAA relief funds to compensate players who are using their 5th year of eligibility
  • The Ivy League is not allowing exceptions for 5th year grad students or allowing student athletes to dis-enroll
  • Service Academy Athletes are expected to graduate and deploy to the US Military on time regardless of being granted an extra year of eligibility 
  • The Patriot League, as are many conferences, are still looking at 5th year eligibility on a case by case basis
  • The NESCAC (NCAA Division III) has suspended all in-person recruiting until June 15th
  • The University of Wisconsin is the first school from a Power Five conference to not grant a 5th year of eligibility to any of their 2020 spring athletes
  • DII approved waivers for virtual recruiting, etc.– Commits can participate in virtual meetings w/o training