University of Idaho Athletics

Amateurism

NCAA Amateurism Guidance

To remain eligible for NCAA competition, student-athletes are required to maintain amateur status. A student-athlete will lose his/her amateur status, and thus jeopardize his/her eligibility if he/she does any of the following:

1. Uses his or her athletics skills, either directly or indirectly, for pay in any form in the sport in which he/she competes.
2. Accepts a promise of pay, even if such pay is to be received following completion of intercollegiate athletics participation.
3. Signs a contract, or verbally gives a commitment of any kind to play professional athletics, regardless of its legal enforceability.
4. Receives, directly or indirectly, a salary, reimbursement of expenses, or any other form of financial assistance from a professional sports organization based upon athletics skill or participation, except as permitted by NCAA rules and regulations.
5. Competes on any professional athletics team and knows (or had reason to know) that the team is a professional athletics team, even if no pay or remuneration for expenses was received.
6. Enters into a professional draft after initial full-time enrollment.
7. Enters into an agreement (either written or oral) with an agent or other entity to negotiate a professional contract.
   • This DOES NOT include entering into an agreement with a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) representative who will represent you in your NIL activities. Refer to our NIL educational resources for more information.