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Recruiting calendars ensure competitive equity by defining the time periods during which recruiting activities may or may not occur in a particular sport.
Football, baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country & track and field, men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, volleyball, and softball have separate recruiting calendars. All other sports use the "Other Sports Recruiting Calendar."
Please review the NCAA Recruiting calendars for your respective sports by consulting the compliance staff, or viewing the documents on the NCAA website.
The Four Recruiting Periods
Contact Period: Coaches may have face-to-face contact with prospective student-athletes or their parents, watch them compete, visit their high schools, and write or telephone prospective student-athletes or their parents.
Evaluation Period: Coaches may watch prospective student-athletes compete, visit their high schools, and write or telephone prospective student-athletes or their parents. However, a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with prospective student-athletes or their parents off the institution's campus at this time.
Quiet Period: Coaches may not have face-to-face contact with prospective student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch prospective student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. However, it is permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts on the institution's campus. Coaches may also write or telephone prospective student-athletes or their parents during this time.
Dead Period: Coaches may not have face-to-face contact with prospective student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch prospective student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. Further, coaches may not have in-person recruiting contacts on the institution's campus. Coaches may write and telephone prospective student-athletes or their parents during this time.
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