Can a NCAA athlete take shoes, or money, or whatever and still be clean according to the ncaa rule book? I've been told that it isnt an offense if the loot doesnt go over a given value amount, but I couldn't find anything in the rule book. Any info?
Can a NCAA athlete take shoes, or money, or whatever and still be clean according to the ncaa rule book? I've been told that it isnt an offense if the loot doesnt go over a given value amount, but I couldn't find anything in the rule book. Any info?
you can only take medals to my knowledge...
umm, from seeing previous things at races...no money can be taken no matter how little or how much you paid to get into the race, although shoes have been accepted before, and nobody said anything, not sure about other prizes, but i think the others probably hold true to being able to receive, such as watches.....but then again, maybe what the people did at these races were illegal, so you should probably ask someone working for the ncaa, or maybe your high school/college coach.
I've heard that medals and gift certificates are ok.
Talk to your compliance officer. You need a trust account. You cannot take it directly, or you have to give everything you've gotten back, as in the Rupp case.
I was a freshman at a DI school last year & needed to preserve my eligibility to be an XC walk-on this year. When I won a local 5k back in April, I got a $50 gift certificate to a running store. I contacted our NCAA compliance coordinator, and she said that accepting any award based on place finish (including medals) was prohibited. The only allowable items are raffle prizes and goodie bag schwag given to everyone. Her verbatim response to my email was:
"You are correct that you can not keep the gift certificate for winning the race if you plan on trying out again for the varsity team. If you drop off the race information and the gift certificate with a letter stating that you are returning the gift certificate so that you are eligible for intercollegiate competition in upcoming years, I will write a cover letter and send it all in as well as keep it on record."
That's what I ended up doing. I would check with your complaince coordinator just to be safe.
take it, no one will find out, unless anyone knows of an example of someone being inelgible for accepting small money at races.
This is why the ncaa sucks. Their petty little rules in no way give an advantage to one school over another in this matter.
We settled all that a long time ago; me and my buddies, Singleton and Bjorklund.
Oh, sorry. You meant the NCAA, not the Olympics.
I accepted those all the time in college. Who cares?
The NCAA sucks.
Take the money, if you are not a big name or anything, no one will find out, or no one would care to deal with it. If you do get caught apparently all you have yo do is just pay it back anyway.
The NCAA has all the rules spelled out for you, all you have to do is read. Prize money may be accepted provided it does not exceed transportation expenses. Also, I believe if you check the other rulings, once you are caught there is no reinstatement procedure whereby you can just pay back the money.
When I was a junior at an NAIA school, I jumped into a winter marathon with only a few 15 milers under my belt. My only goal was to run faster than the year before. I ended up placing 3rd woman with a cash prize of $1000. The race director knew my Dad and made the check out to him. My dad put it in the bank and I never saw it until I graduated, then he gave it to me. When I got back to college after winter break, my coach asked me if I had run a marathon. (She had frowned upon me runnning a marathon prior to track season) Uhhhh....how did I answer that one? Then she asked me if I took any prize money. I honestly answered that no money or check was handed to me or put in my name. And that was the end of that.