Sul Ross State University Athletics

You are a representative of Sul Ross State Athletics Interest (also known as a Booster) if any of the following applies:
 
• You have participated in or are a member of an agency or organization, including corporate entities (e.g., apparel and equipment companies), promoting the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program.
 
• You have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of that institution.
 
• You assist or have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes.
 
• You assist or have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families.
 
• You have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution’s athletics program; Once an individual is identified as such a representative, the person retains that identity indefinitely.
 
CAN
• Participate with prospects in organized institutional community engagement activities when prospects reside within 100-mile radius of location.
 
• Observe a prospect’s athletics contest, provided there is no contact with the prospect or the prospect’s parents and relatives.
 
• Notify Sul Ross State coaching staff of outstanding prospects in the area.
 
• Continue to have normal contact with any neighbor, relative, or family friend that might be a high school prospect as long as you do not engage in the recruitment process.
• Refer any and all recruiting questions to an athletic department staff member.
 
CANNOT
• Write, call, or make in-person recruiting contacts with a high school prospect or his legal guardians.
 
• Contact a coach, principal, and or counselor to evaluate a high school prospect.
 
• Visit a prospect’s school to pick up a transcript or video to evaluate the prospect’s academic or athletic ability or to provide it to an athletics department staff member.
 
• Sponsor or arrange an awards banquet for a high school, prep school, or 2-year college prospect.
 
• Provide extra benefits to high school prospects, enrolled college student-athletes, or their relatives and friends. Types of inducements that are prohibited include, but are not limited to: cash or tangible items, the use of an automobile, signing or cosigning a note for a loan, the promise of employment after college, the promise of financial aid for post graduate education.