University
of Missouri-St. Louis Athletic Department |
Student-Athlete Handbook |
Section 7: Compliance Services
Extra Benefits
If you receive an award, gift, benefit or expense allowance not authorized by NCAA rules while a student athlete or receive such a benefit that is not generally available to the student body you may lose your eligibility, retroactive to the time you received the improper benefit. Your team will also have to forfeit any competition that you participated in since the time you received the benefit. Examples of such benefits include but are not limited to: gifts or loans of clothing, stereo equipment, compact discs, food, beverages, transportation, ownership or use of automobiles, use of automatic cash machine, low interest free loans, telephone credit cards, charge accounts, etc. If you have received any of these, or if any have been offered, please notify Compliance Services immediately.
Amateur Status
In order to compete in intercollegiate competition at UM-St. Louis, you must be an amateur in your sport. This means you cannot have signed or promised to sign a contract with an agent, semi-professional or professional team, or anyone else offering to help manage your professional career. It also means that if you have received prize money in your sport you may be ineligible. Please contact Compliance Services if any of these things have occurred.
Recruitment
While you were being recruited by UM-St. Louis (or anyone else) you should not have received cash or any items of value from anyone associated with UM-St. Louis. In addition, you should not have received promises of any of the above. You should not have received correspondence or phone calls from anyone other than UM-St. Louis staff or faculty about UM-St. Louis. Your family should not have been promised or given any items of value or received promotions or new jobs based upon your decision to attend UM-St. Louis.
Eligibility
The rules
of eligibility allow you to compete eight semesters within ten semesters
you are enrolled at any collegiate institution as a full time student.
During that period of time you may be awarded up to a full scholarship
for any of five years. Athletics aid at UM-St. Louis is awarded for
one academic year at a time, which is the maximum allowed by the NCAA.
If you are currently on scholarship and if you have been notified
that the scholarship will not be renewed or it will be reduced for
the upcoming year and if you have eligibility remaining, you may appeal
the decision by notifying the Director of Financial Aid or the Director
of Compliance. You will have the opportunity to appear before the
Financial-Aid Appeal Committee to appeal the decision.