University of Nevada Las Vegas

As a student or graduate support staff member (team manager, athletic trainer, equipment staff) for the UNLV Athletics Department, there are specific department responsibilities and NCAA rules that you need to be aware of to ensure athletic and NCAA compliance.

Prior to accepting a position, it is mandatory that the head coach or direct supervisor to discuss with you the responsibilities outlined below. In addition, it is mandatory for each person to attend all NCAA compliance rules education programs.

Upon accepting this position, You should be provided a list of job responsibilities so that you have a clear understanding of your role within your respective department.

As defined by NCAA or University policy, it is permissible for you to:

To work in the office and provide clerical or office support as deemed necessary by the head coach or department head.

Assist coaches and full-time support staff members in practice preparation activities.

Videotape practices and/or games and assist with film exchange.

Assist with "preparation" (game management or game operations) for home games and or team travel responsibilities.

Work summer camps and/or clinics as needed.

Receive pre or post game meal expenses

Surgical and medical expenses incurred as a result of UNLV athletic involvement

Practice and competition expenses

Away from home contest entertainment

Lodging in conjunction with competition

Specified employment arrangements (See Assistant AD for Compliance for prior approval)

It is not permissible for you to:

Be involved with any countable athletically related activity. Countable athletically related activity is defined as:

1. 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 engages in any of the following activities:

Field, floor or on-court activity
Setting up offensive or defensive alignment
Chalk talk
Lecture on or discussion of strategy related to the sport
Activities using equipment related to the sport
Discussions or review of game films, motion pictures or videotapes related to the sport, except for the observation of an officiating clinic related to playing rules that is conducted by a video conference and does not require student-athletes to miss any class time to observe the clinic.

Activities conducted under the guise of physical education class work composed of or including primarily members of an intercollegiate team on a required attendance basis or where the class utilizes equipment for the sport.

2. Supervision and/or instruction in weight training and conditioning activities held at the direction of or supervised by an institutional staff member. (Student and/or graduate student athletic trainers are permitted to work directly with student-athletes in reconditioning or rehabilitation programs for injured student-athletes or may assist the strength and conditioning coach in program development and conditioning protocols as part of the education process for NATA certification).

3. Attend and assist in individual workouts required or supervised by a member of the coaching staff.

Be involved with any extra benefit to a student-athlete. An extra benefit is defined as any special arrangement by an institutional staff member, employee or a representative of athletics interest (i.e.booster) to provide a student-athlete or student-athlete's relatives and/or friends a benefit not expressly authorized by the NCAA. Receipt of the benefit by student-athletes or their relatives or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institutions students or their relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student body. Therefore, it would not be permissible for you to:

1. Provide rides to and from work for any student-athlete for summer employment or employment during the academic year.

2. Provide student-athletes with access or free use of long distance telephone service

3. Provide indirect or direct use of credit cards

4. Provide any gift certificates, loans of money to student-athletes

5. Provide frequent meals or unauthorized meals to student-athletes

6. Provide free tickets to a professional sport contest to student-athletes

7. Provide free or reduced typing or computer costs to student-athletes

8. Provide or purchase school supplies for student-athletes

9. Provide free or reduced lodging in hotels for student-athletes and/or their relatives

10. Provide free use of institutional copy or fax machines to student-athletes

11. Provide the use of automobiles to student-athletes

12. Coaches or boosters may not direct you to arrange special employment arrangements for any student-athlete.

13. Provide or pay for airline transportation for student athletes

14. Provide to student-athletes free clothing

15. Provide any deferred pay back loans or guarantee any bonds or financial arrangements for student-athletes

16. You cannot co-sign a loan for a student-athlete

17. You cannot provide birthday or wedding gifts to student-athletes

18. Provide free or reduced entertainment for a student-athlete

19. Assist with payment for any bills for student-athletes

20. Purchase groceries or household goods for any student-athletes

21. Arrange to manage money for a student-athlete.

You are required to abide by all of the UNLV policy and procedures, have received and read the Student-Athletes Services Handbook, and abide by all Mountain West Conference and NCAA rules. Refusal to furnish information to NCAA or UNLV administration/coaches about a possible violation or an actual violation when requested to do so is considered an unethical conduct violation and will result in severe disciplinary actions. Unethical conduct violations are involvement in arranging false academic transcripts or credits, offering or providing recruiting inducements to prospective student-athletes, providing false or misleading information to the NCAA or UNLV, receiving benefits not authorized, arranging a meeting between a student-athlete and sports agent or serving as a runner or bird dog for a sports agent.

It is not permissible for your to provide information to individuals involved in organized gambling concerning intercollegiate athletic events, solicit a bet on any intercollegiate team, accept a bet on any team representing UNLV, solicit a or accept a bet on any intercollegiate competition for any item (cash, shirt, dinner ect.) or participate in any gambling activity involving intercollegiate athletics or professional athletics, through a bookmaker, a parlay card or any other method employed by organized gambling.

As a member of the institutional staff, it is your responsibility to strictly adhere to all of the aforementioned responsibilities and rules. In addition, it is your responsibility to report to any NCAA rules violations to the UNLV Athletics Department Administrative Staff.