Student Assistant Coach

A student assistant coach is any coach who is a student-athlete who has exhausted eligibility in the sport or has become injured to the point that the individual is unable to practice or compete ever again, and who meets the following additional criteria: 

(a) Is enrolled at the institution where the individual most recently participated in intercollegiate athletics; 1/18/24 26 

(b) Is enrolled as a full-time graduate student within the individual’s five-year period of eligibility (see Bylaw 12.8) or is enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student in the individual’s first baccalaureate degree program, except that during the individual’s final semester or quarter of the degree program, the individual may be enrolled in less than a full-time degree program of studies, provided the individual is carrying (for credit) the courses necessary to complete the degree requirements; and 

(c) Is not involved in contacting and evaluating prospective student-athletes off campus.