Villanova University

Continuing Eligibility - Enrolled prior to August 2003

• You must be enrolled in and pass a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester
• You must be enrolled in and pass a minimum of 24 credit hours per academic year

• You must earn 75% of your credit hours during the fall and spring semesters
• You can earn up to 25% of your credit hours during the summer

• By your junior year (5th semester) of full time collegiate enrollment: You must have completed 25% of the course requirements for your major
• By your senior year (7th semester) of full time collegiate enrollment: You must have completed 50% of the course requirements for your major
• By your 5th year (9th semester) of full time collegiate enrollment: You must have completed 75% of the course requirements for your major

If you have any questions about your academic standing or continuing eligibility, please see Nancy White, Associate Director of Academic Support, or Amy Miller, Assistant Director of Academic Support in their office in Jake Nevin Field House.

Eligibility

The following are rules established by the NCAA to make sure that everyone competing in intercollegiate competition remains an amateur:

Within your sport, you are not eligible for participation if you have ever:

In any sport, you are not eligible if:

Amateurism

If you have any questions regarding your amateur status, please contact Gordon Finch, Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, at 610-519-5305 or Molly Myers, Compliance Assistant, at 610-519-6607.

Agents and Professional Leagues

If you are considering turning pro and signing with an agent, it is essential that you understand the NCAA and University rules regarding professional leagues/drafts and agents. Any violation of these rules can, and will, have a severe negative effect on your status as a student-athlete.

Agents

NCAA rules stipulate that:

Professional Leagues

NCAA rules stipulate that you are not eligible:

It is essential that as an enrolled student-athlete, you know the NCAA and University rules regarding agents and professional leagues. Any violation of these rules can, and will, have a severe negative effect on your status as a student-athlete. NCAA rules stipulate that you are not eligible:

1. In a sport if you have ever accepted money, transportation, or other benefits from an agent or agreed (orally or in writing) to have an agent market your athletics ability or reputation in that sport.
2. If you negotiate or sign a playing contract in any sport in which you intend to compete. Any agency contract not specifically limited in writing to a particular sport shall be deemed applicable to all sports an you will be ineligible for all sports.
3. If your friends or relatives have ever accepted money, transportation, or other benefits from an agent or agreed to have an agent market your athletics ability or reputation in that sport.
4. Asked to be placed on a professional league's draft list, even if you remove your name, go undrafted, or are drafted but do not sign a contract.
5. Accept payment of expenses or gifts of any kind (including meals and transportation) from an agent.
6. Receive preferential benefits or treatment because of reputation, skill, or pay back potential as a professional athlete.
7. Retain professional services for personal reasons at less than the normal charge from a representative of Villanova's Athletics interests.

If an agent has tried to contact you or your family, you must tell your coach and the Compliance Office immediately!!!

Agents Committee

Any agent who tries to contact a Villanova student-athlete must be registered with the University and have declared their intention to contact you. The NCAA has asked each institution to provide a career counseling panel to aid the student-athlete in avoiding the pitfalls of dishonest agents. Villanova has established the Career Counseling Committee. The members of the Committee have expertise in the area of professional agents. The Committee will:

1. Supply information to the student-athletes regarding professional career opportunities.
2. Screen and evaluate potential agents to represent you.
3. Evaluate contracts.

The Chairperson of the Committee is Dorothy A. Malloy, University Vice President and General Counsel. For more information on the Committee, you can contact her at 610-519-7857.

There are several other rules surrounding involvement with professional teams and agents. If you are considering turning pro, if an agent has attempted to contact you, or if you have any questions, please call Gordon Finch, Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, at 610-519-5305 or Molly Myers, Compliance Assistant, at 610-519-6607.

Employment

*You must fill out all proper paper work with the Compliance Office before you begin working. Summer Time Employment

Freshmen and Transfer Students:

Everyone Else:

You may earn up to the cost of a full grant-in-aid, minus the cost of your scholarship, plus $2,000. For example, if the cost of a full grant-in-aid is $30,000 and your athletics scholarship is for $15,000, you may earn up to $17,000 during the academic year.

*Again, you must fill out all proper paper work with the Compliance Office before you begin working!! If you have any questions regarding employment, please contact Gordon Finch, Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, at 610-519-5305 or Molly Myers, Compliance Assistant, at 610-519-6607.

Financial Aid

• Aid that Villanova distributes;
• Money from anyone on whom you are naturally or legally dependent;
• Financial Aid awarded to you on a basis other than athletics ability;
•Financial Aid from an entity outside your institution that meets NCAA requirements.

A full grant-in-aid is a scholarship which includes tuition, room and board, fees and books-on-loan. A partial grant-in-aid is a scholarship covering some, but not all, of the expenses covered by a full grant-in-aid.

Required Textbooks-on-Loan

Some Athletic Scholarship Awards include Required Textbooks-on-Loan. It is the responsibility of those student-athletes who receive such awards to follow the regulations regarding this program. Failure to comply may result in monetary charges and/or loss of the Required Textbook-on-Loan benefit.

1. The book cards are located in the Compliance Office. There is a sign-out sheet located in the office. All book cards must be signed in and out. The student-athletes will also be given a contract outlining their responsibilities and the purpose of the card. Book cards are given out at the beginning of each semester. All student-athletes have until the midterm to purchase their books.
2. Student-athletes who lose their book cards are required to pay a fee of $5.00.
3. BOOK BUY BACK IS HELD AT THE END OF EACH SEMESTER. There will be signs posted throughout the Athletics Department regarding the date, place, and time for each book buy back. In addition, notification will be sent to coaches, secretaries and compliance liaisons for each sport.
4. All book cards must be returned each semester. The returning of all book cards and books is the responsibility of the student-athletes.

For any additional information concerning the Required Textbook-on-Loan Program, contact Gordon Finch, Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, at 610-519-5305 or Molly Myers, Compliance Assistant, at 610-519-6607.

Athletic Scholarship

An Athletic Grant - In - Aid is a financial award given to a student-athlete based upon athletic ability or sports performance.

A qualifying student-athlete may receive an athletic grant upon recommendations of the coach and the Director of Athletics, with approval from the Office of Financial Assistance. An offer of a financial award is contingent upon admittance to the University and the student-athlete's academic standing. Returning student-athletes must be academically eligible and making normal progress toward a degree to be eligible for an award.

Presently, the cost of tuition and fees, room and board and use of required course related books is the maximum amount awarded under an athletic grant-in-aid. Grants for lesser amounts are also given. It is important that all textbooks be returned at the close of each semester. Students will be billed for textbooks which are not returned.

An athletic grant is issued for one academic year and may be renewed for the next academic year. This renewal is contingent upon the attainment of academic eligibility and normal progress requirements. Continued participation is also required.

Athletic Scholarship Policy

1. The total amount of financial aid (excluding bona fide loans and aid from family) for athletes receiving athletic grants or other University designated financial aid (such as student employment, college work study, SEOG, University Scholarships or Grants, etc.) may not exceed the cost of tuition and fees, room and board, and the cost of required, course related books. However, an athlete receiving a PELL Grant may receive the maximum award for miscellaneous expenses as permitted under the PELL Grant program.
2. An athlete who fails to meet academic eligibility and normal progress requirements relative to the athlete's sport season by the first competition or the first day of classes, whichever comes first, may lose his/her athletic grant.
3. If a student-athlete is injured during practice, competition, or University sponsored travel to or from competition under Intercollegiate Athletics auspices, that student's athletic grant will be continued until the athlete receives his/her baccalaureate degree or through the athlete's fifth year of enrollment, whichever comes first. During the student-athlete's enrollment at the University, approved medical expenses will be covered under this policy.
The University's obligation to provide medical care and financial aid under this policy will terminate immediately if appropriate University medical staff certify that an injured athlete has recovered sufficiently to permit competition and the athlete voluntarily chooses not to participate in athletics.
4. An athletic grant may be withdrawn if the student-athlete:

• Fails to meet academic eligibility and normal progress requirements as defined by the student-athlete's sport season,
• Voluntarily quits the team,
• Loses amateur status in the student-athlete's sport,
• Does not make the team,
• Fraudulently misrepresents any information on an application, letter of intent or tender, or engages in serious misconduct warranting substantial disciplinary penalty.

5. If a student-athlete's grant is withdrawn for any reason, the student-athlete has a right to a campus review of the action. Information regarding the procedure is available from the Office of Financial Assistance.
6. Pregnancy is considered an illness and is not a basis for withdrawal of athletic aid.
7. Graduate School. The decision to further athletic scholarship awards for athletes who have attained his/her baccalaureate degree and still have remaining eligibility shall be at the discretion of the coach.

Charges Not Paid By the Athletics Department

The types of expenses listed below are not covered and must be paid by the student-athlete:

1. All phone charges.
2. Cost of treatment for non-athletically related injuries.
3. "Consumable@" charges (i.e. lab fees for breakage, non-required field trips, etc.).
4. Library fines, parking fines or fines for damage to University property, including residence halls.
5. Key deposits or the cost of key replacements.
6. Replacement costs for lost Student I.D.'s.
7. School supplies, dictionaries, reference books, pens, notebooks, paper, art supplies, etc.
8. Vehicle registration fees or parking stickers.
9. University breakage deposit
10. Use of institutional phones to call off campus is strictly prohibited.
11. Use of institutional copy machines is prohibited.

Non Scholarship Student-Athletes:

As a non scholarship student-athlete, both recruited and non recruited (walk-on), you are entitled to all the benefits of a scholarship student-athlete, except for the Athletic Grant-In-Aid and benefits arising from these awards.

The following benefits are available to all student-athletes:

1. Academic advising assistance (i.e.: tutoring, career counseling, etc);
2. Training Room treatment for an athletically-related injury;
3. Strength and Conditioning facility use;
4. Referrals for vacation and term time employment;
5. Team travel and equipment use;
6. Training table meals during the season.

If you have any questions regarding financial aid, please contact Gordon Finch, Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, at 610-519-5305 or Molly Myers, Compliance Assistant, at 610-519-6607.

Gambling

• Provide information to individuals involved in organized gambling activities concerning intercollegiate athletics competition;
• Solicit a bet on any intercollegiate team;
• Accept a bet on any team representing the institution;
• Participate in any gambling activity that involves intercollegiate athletics through a bookmaker a parlay card or any other method employed by organized gambling.

• Baseball
• Basketball (including all NCAA Tournament pools)
• Bowling

• Horse Racing
• Casino Games

Sports that cannot be bet on include: All sports sponsored by the NCAA including: Baseball, Basketball (including all NCAA Tournament Pools), and Bowling; Professional Sports.

Sports that can be bet on if you are of age (21) include: Horse Racing and Casino Games.

If you have any questions about gambling, or you think someone has a gambling problem, please call Gordon C. Finch Esq., Associate Athletics Director/Compliance, at 610-519-5305 or Molly Myers, Compliance Coordinator, at 610-519-6607.