Practice and Playing Hours
Student-Athletes permissible practice and playing hours vary between on and off season. During your in-season, student-athletes may spend
- 4 hours per day
- 20 hours per week
- 1 day off per week, the day off may occur on any day of the week and may change from week to week. A "week" is defined as any seven consecutive days, determined at the institution's discretion.
- 8 hours per week
- 2 hours per week of skill instruction
- One week prior to beginning of final exams through the end of exams no athletically related activities
- Sept 15th through April 15th unlimited student-athletes on the same team may practice, out side of those dates, no more than 4 with countable coach
- During preseason practice prior to the first day of classes or the first scheduled contest, whichever is earlier.
- During an institution's term-time officials vacation period (e.g., Thanksgiving, spring break), as listed in the institution's official calendar, and during the academic year between terms when classes are not in session.
| Countable* Athletically Related Activities | Noncountable Athletically Related Activities |
| Practices (no more than 4 hours per day) | Compliance meetings |
| Athletics meetings with a coach initiated or required by a coach (e.g., end of season individual meetings) | Meetings with a coach initiated by the student-athlete |
| Competition (and associated activities, regardless of their length, count as 3 hours) NOTE: No countable athletically related activities may occur after the competition | Drug/alcohol educational meetings or CHAMPS/Life Skills meetings |
| Field, floor or on-court activity | Study hall, tutoring or academic meetings |
| Setting up offensive and defensive alignment | Student-athlete advisory committee/Captain's Council meetings |
| In-court or on-field activities called by any member of the team and confined primarily to members of the team | Voluntary weight training not conducted by a coach or staff member |
| Required weight-training and conditioning activities | Voluntary sports-related activities (e.g. initiated by student-athlete, no attendance taken, no coach present) |
| Required participation in camps/clinics | Traveling to/from the site of competition (as long as no countable activities occur) |
| Visiting the competition site in the sports of cross country, golf, and skiing | Training room activities (e.g., treatment, taping), rehabilitation activities and medical examinations |
| Participation outside the regular season in individual skill-related instructional activities with a member of the coaching staff | Recruiting activities (e.g., student host) |
*There may be additional rules that are applicable only to certain sports.
