Flagler College Athletics

BOOSTERS

 
What is a Booster (Representative of Athletics Interests)?
A representative of the institution's athletics interests is an individual who is known (or who should have been known) by a member of the institution's executive or athletics administration to:

• Have participated in or to be a member of an agency or organization, including corporate entities promoting the institution's intercollegiate athletics program;
• Have made financial contributions to the Department of Athletics or to an athletics booster organization of that institution;
• Be assisting or to have been requested to assist in the recruitment of prospects;
• Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families; or
• Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution's athletics program.

• May notify the College's coaching staff members about noteworthy prospects in the area;
• Attend high school or 2-year college contests or other events where prospects may compete, provided no contact occurs;
• Continue existing friendships; and
• Coordinate through the College coaching staff about an occasional meal (see below).

• Institutional Staff Members. A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal in the locale of the institution on infrequent and special occasions from an institutional staff member. An institutional staff member may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend such meals.
• Representative of Athletics Interests. A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional family home meal from a representative of the institution's athletics interests provided the meal is in the individual's home, on campus or at a facility that is regularly used for home competition and may be catered. The representative of the institution's athletics interests or an institutional staff member may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend such meals.

• May not contact a prospect in person off campus;
• May not contact a prospect by telephone, email, internet, or letter;
• May not provide gifts or free or reduced cost services to a prospect or the prospect's relatives or legal guardian;
• May not employ relatives, guardians or friends of a prospect as an inducement for the prospect's enrollment and athletics participation at a university;
• May not become directly or indirectly involved in making arrangements for a prospect or the prospect's relatives or guardian to receive money or financial aid of any kind;
• May not provide transportation for a prospect or the prospect's relatives or guardian;
• May not provide free or reduced-cost tickets for a prospect or the prospect's relatives or guardian to attend an athletic event; and
• May not provide any material benefit (e.g. meals, cash) to the coach of a prospect, including high school, two-year college, AAU and summer team coaches.

• Employment arrangement for a prospect's relatives;
• Gifts of clothing or equipment;
• Co-signing of loans or providing loans to a prospect's relatives or friends;
• Cash or similar items;
• Any tangible items, including merchandise;
• Free or reduced-cost services, rentals or purchases of any type;
• Free or reduced-cost housing; and
• Use of an institution's athletics equipment.