University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
A Booster’s Guide to Contact with Prospects
A Booster MAY:
• Provide information about noteworthy prospects from the booster's local area to UCLA coaches and staff (but cannot contact a prospect's coach or school officials regarding recruitment);
• Watch a prospect's athletic contest (but cannot have contact with that prospect or the prospect's parents);
• Continue an established relationship with a prospect and his/her family if the relationship predates the prospect entering the ninth grade and the relationship didn’t develop as a result of the prospect’s athletic participation or notoriety.
A Booster MAY NOT:
• Have any in-person contact with a prospect or his/her family in person on or off the UCLA campus;
• Have any contact or communication with a prospect through written correspondence, email, texting, instant messaging, Internet (e.g., Skype) or any form of social media, including but not limited to Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram;
• Approach a UCLA coach who is with a prospect either on or off the UCLA campus or at any athletics event;
• Invite a prospect or his or her relatives or friends to a UCLA athletic event or to any booster or alumni function;
• Provide any extra benefit (see definitions above) to a prospect or his/her family or friends; and
• Arrange employment opportunities for prospects or their relatives or friends.
What about unavoidable incidental contact with a prospect?
There are times when contact occurs between a booster and prospect that is unavoidable. In such instances, an NCAA violation does not occur, but only if the contact:
1) Is not prearranged by the booster or UCLA;
2) Doesn’t occur at the prospect’s high school or competition site;
3) Isn’t made for recruiting purposes; and
4) Is incidental and involves only normal civility and an attempt to end the contact immediately.
Can boosters employ prospective student athletes or their relatives or friends?
UCLA boosters may NOT arrange or create employment opportunities for prospective student-athletes or their relatives, friends or legal guardians.
Boosters may assist UCLA coaches or staff in finding a prospect summer employment, but only AFTER the PSA signs his or her National Letter of Intent with UCLA.
Please Note: A prospect remains a prospect even after he/she signs a National Letter of Intent (NLI) or financial aid agreement to attend UCLA. The prospect does not lose his/her prospect status until the start of classes at UCLA or the beginning of official team practice prior to the start of classes (whichever occurs earliest), at which time they become an enrolled student-athlete.