INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Administrative Committee decided the division’s quiet recruiting period will end August 31. Division II sports will resume their normal recruiting calendars on September 1.
The Administrative Committee, which met virtually, stated that resuming a normal recruiting calendar could assist Division II with enrollment management.
The committee also clarified the application of a season-of-competition waiver that was approved July 22 for student-athletes who compete in 50% or less of the sport’s Bylaw 17 maximum contests/dates of competition for the 2020-21 academic year. The 50% threshold, the committee decided, will include scrimmages and other discretionary exemptions as part of the regular season maximum contest/dates of competition to maintain consistency with how season-of-competition waivers are normally processed.
Additionally, the committee clarified that the waiver will not apply for student-athletes in individual sports in instances where they compete in more than 50% of the sport’s maximum contests/dates of competition even if their team does not exceed that threshold. Such a scenario could occur in a sport like cross country, in which a date of competition is recorded for a team only when five or more runners compete in a race.
Information courtesy National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
