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Student Host
As you probably remember from when you were a recruit, making a visit to UAB is an important part of the recruiting process. We want our recruits to experience the many things that make UAB and its athletics department so special. Our student-athletes play an important role in making sure that our recruits feel welcome and have a great experience while they are here.
We also want to want to ensure the safety and well-being, as well as protect the eligibility, of our student-athletes and the recruits they are hosting. For this reason, UAB has established guidelines for both recruits visiting our campus and the student-athletes who will be hosting them.
For our student-athlete hosts, these rules outline the applicable NCAA rules and institutional policies of which student-athletes must be aware when hosting a recruit and also outlines appropriate conduct and activities while hosting a recruit.
These guidelines include the following:
- The student host must sign the Student Host Form prior to receiving money to cover the actual costs of entertaining the recruit and the recruit's parents, legal guardians or spouse.
- Student hosts may not purchase or arrange for the use of alcohol, tobacco products or illegal drugs by the recruit or anyone in the recruit's travel party.
- Recruits and student hosts are not to engage in inappropriate or illegal activities while on the official visit (e.g., going to strip clubs/gentleman's clubs, using the services of a prostitute, viewing pornographic material, gambling, or consuming alcohol or illegal drugs).
- A maximum of $40 per day may be provided to the student host(s) to cover actual entertainment costs for the student host, the recruit, the recruit's parents/legal guardians, and/or spouse. Student hosts may be provided with an additional $20 per day for each additional recruit the host entertains.
- No cash may be given to the recruit or anyone accompanying the recruit.
- Student hosts may not use entertainment funds to purchase or otherwise provide the recruit with gifts of value (e.g., souvenirs or clothing). Student hosts cannot arrange for the recruit to receive a discount at any place of business.
- Student hosts may not use vehicles provided by a staff member or booster. Only institutional vehicles or personal vehicles may be used to transport recruits around campus during an official visit. No vehicle shall be provided by UAB for use by the recruit, the recruit's travel party or student host.
- Student hosts may not transport the recruit or anyone accompanying the recruit more than 30 miles from the UAB campus. The student host incurs the liability for transporting the recruit or anyone accompanying the recruit in the student host's personal vehicle.
- The recruit may not participate in any athletics activity involving evaluation of skill or when Athletics Department personnel are present. Team members accompanying the recruit during physical activity may not report back information to a coach concerning the recruit's abilities.
- Boosters and alumni (including former student-athletes) are not allowed to be involved in recruiting a prospective student-athlete. If during the official visit you and the recruit come in contact with these types of individuals, the contact must be limited to an exchange of greetings.
- UAB may provide a student host with a complimentary meal if the student host is accompanying the recruit at that meal.
- If several students are hosting a recruit, only one student host per recruit may receive a free meal if restaurant facilities are used.
- It is impermissible to give or loan athletic gear or apparel to recruits for use during an official visit.
- Immediately following the visit, the student host is responsible for returning receipts and unused money from the entertainment funds to the student host's coach.
