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University of Massachusets Athletics
UMass Compliance Office • Current Student-Athletes
As a student-athlete representing the University of Massachusetts, you are viewed as a role model on campus and within the community. Student-athletes' actions may directly influence how people perceive his/her team, the athletic department, and the University.
Student-athletes are expected to conduct themselves in a way that brings respect to themselves, their teammates, their team, and the University of Massachusetts, regardless of whether he/she is representing the University at competition, or in an activity having no relation to the University.
The following links below are resources for rules relative to student-athletes here at the University of Massachusetts.
Student-athletes are expected to conduct themselves in a way that brings respect to themselves, their teammates, their team, and the University of Massachusetts, regardless of whether he/she is representing the University at competition, or in an activity having no relation to the University.
The following links below are resources for rules relative to student-athletes here at the University of Massachusetts.
- NCAA Agents and Amateurism Information
- Guide to a Career in professional Athletics
- Please remember, you will lose your eligibility IF:
- You agree orally or in writing to be represented by an agent or any individual acting on behalf of an agent (e.g., runner).
- You accept benefits from an agent, prospective agent, or any individual acting on behalf of an agent (e.g., runner).
- If you participate in a tryout with an NBA team that lasts longer than 48 hours, which you have not personally financed.
- If you use an advisor throughout the process and do not pay the going rate for the advising services.
- If you try out with a professional team during the academic year and miss class.
- If you enter the draft AND do not take the appropriate steps to withdraw and declare your intention to resume intercollegiate participation.
- If you enter the draft AND are drafted by a professional team.
Employment
- Compensation may only be paid to a student-athlete:
- Only for work actually performed; and
- At a rate comparable with the going rate in that position for similar services.
- Such compensation may not include any earnings for value or utility that the student-athlete may have for the employer because of publicity, reputation, fame, or personal following that her/she has obtained because of athletics ability.
- NCAA legislation does mandate that strict protocol be followed when the employment of a current student-athlete or prospective student-athlete becomes a possibility.
- Student-athletes MUST consult and complete the appropriate paperwork with the Compliance Office before the initial employment date.
- Employment Form (available upon request)
Extra Benefits
- An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or the student-athlete family member or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation.
- Receipt of a benefit by student-athletes or their family members or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution's students or their family members or friends or to a particular segment of the student body (e.g., international students, minority students) determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
Examples of impermissible extra benefits include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cash or loans in any amount, or signing or cosigning for a loan
- Gifts of any kind, including birthday and holiday gifts
- Free or reduced-cost services such as car repairs, haircuts, tutoring, etc.
- The use of an automobile Free or reduced rent or housing
- Tickets to an athletic or community event
- Academic course supplies or assistance
- Arranging the employment of the relatives of friends of a student-athlete
Examples of permissible benefits include:
- Hometown Award- a hometown group (other than the Minuteman Club) may pay reasonable and necessary expenses of a student-athlete returning home to receive an award for athletics accomplishments. The value of the hometown award cannot exceed $80.
- Transportation - it is permissible for a student-athlete to receive reasonable local transportation (within a 30-mile radius of campus) occasionally from a University of Massachusetts employee.
Transferring Student-Athletes
- Permission to contact policy available upon request
Updated: April 18, 2024