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Amateur Status
An individual loses amateur status and thus shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition in a particular sport if the individual:
· Uses his or her athletics skill (directly or indirectly) for pay in any form in that sport;
· Accepts a promise of pay even if such pay is to be received following completion of intercollegiate athletics participation;
· Signs a contract or commitment of any kind to play professional athletics, regardless of its legal enforceability or any consideration received;
· Receives, directly or indirectly, a salary, reimbursement of expenses or any other form of financial assistance from a professional sports organization based upon athletics skill or participation, except as permitted by NCAA rules and regulations;
· Competes on any professional athletics team, even if no pay or remuneration for expenses was received; or
· After initial full-time collegiate enrollment, enters into a professional draft.
Professional Draft Rules
Men’s Basketball
An enrolled student-athlete may enter a professional league's draft one time during his collegiate career without jeopardizing eligibility in that sport, provided:
· The student-athlete requests that his name be removed from the draft list and declares his intent to resume intercollegiate participation no later than the end of the day on May 8 of the year in which the draft will occur;
· The student-athlete's declaration of intent to withdrawal his name from the draft is submitted in writing to the institution's director of athletics; and
· The student-athlete is not drafted.
Women’s Basketball
An enrolled student-athlete may enter a professional league's draft one time during her collegiate career without jeopardizing eligibility in that sport, provided:
· The student-athlete is not drafted by any team in that league and the student-athlete declares her intention to resume intercollegiate participation within 30 days after the draft; and
· The student-athlete's declaration of intent to withdrawal her name from the draft shall be in writing to the institution's director of athletics.
Sports other than Basketball or Football
An enrolled student-athlete may enter a professional league's draft one time during his or her collegiate career without jeopardizing his or her eligibility in the applicable sport, provided:
· The student-athlete is not drafted;
· Seventy-two hours following the draft he or she declares his or her intention to resume participation in intercollegiate athletics; and
· The student-athlete's declaration of intent withdrawal his or her name from the draft shall be in writing to the institution's director of athletics.
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