While you are a student-athlete at UW-River Falls, you are required to abide by NCAA, Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) and UW-River Falls rules. The compliance officer will conduct an annual rules session with each team at the beginning of their respective seasons. This meeting is mandatory for all student-athletes. In order to compete as a student-athlete at UW-River Falls, you must do your part to stay within the NCAA guidelines.
What counts as athletically related activities?
(a) Practice, which is defined as any meeting, activity or instruction involving sports-related information and having an athletics purpose, held for one or more student-athletes at the direction of, or supervised by, any member or members of an institution's coaching staff. Practice is considered to have occurred if one or more coaches and one or more student-athletes engage in any of the following activities:
(1) Field, floor or on-court activity;
(2) Setting up offensive or defensive alignment;
(3) Chalk talk;
(4) Lecture on or discussion of strategy related to the sport;
(5) Activities using equipment related to the sport;
(6) Discussions or review of game films, motion pictures or videotapes related to the sport; or
(7) Any other athletically related activity.
(b) Competition;
(c) Required weight-training and conditioning activities held at the direction of or supervised by an institutional staff member;
(d) Participation in a physical-fitness class (including a summer class) conducted by a member of the athletics staff not listed in the institution's catalog and not open to all students. Such a class may not include practice activities conducted under the guise of physical education class work;
(e) Required participation in camps, clinics or workshops;
(f) Individual workouts required or supervised by a member of the coaching staff. An institutional staff member may design a voluntary individual-workout program for a student-athlete, but cannot conduct the individual's workout outside the declared playing season;
(g) On-court or on-field activities called by any member(s) of a team and confined primarily to members of that team that are considered requisite for participation in that sport (e.g., captain's practices);
(h) Visiting the competition site in cross country, golf and skiing;
(i) Reservation or use of an institution's athletics facilities when such activities are supervised by or held at the direction of any member of an institution's coaching staff;Â
(j) Involvement of an institution's strength and conditioning staff with enrolled student-athletes in required conditioning programs; and
(k) Observation by an institution's coaching staff member of enrolled student-athletes in nonorganized sport-specific activities (e.g., "pick-up games") in the coaching staff member's sport, except as permitted in Bylaw 17.02.1.1.1-(k).
Compliance Information:
"Get In The Game" education videos
NCAA Banned Drugs List
