DON’T RECRUIT! The only persons who can permissibly contact a prospective student-athlete are BYU coaches and athletic department staff members.  Boosters may not make any recruiting contact with prospects or their relatives. This precludes phone calls, letters, and emails, as well as any face-to-face contact either on- or off-campus.

Who is a “Prospective Student-Athlete”?

A “prospect” is a student that has started classes for the ninth grade.  A student that has not started classes for the ninth grade becomes a prospect if the student receives any benefits that the institution does not provide to all prospective students in general.  A prospective student-athlete remains a prospect even after he/she signs a National Letter of Intent.  He/she does not lose prospect status until the start of BYU classes or the first day of practice.

If you know of a prospect that you feel would make a positive addition to one of BYU’s athletic teams, please contact the coach of the respective sport and let them know!

A booster may:

• Continue to maintain contact with a prospect and their family as long as the booster is an established friend or neighbor and there is no attempt to recruit the student-athlete.
• Have incidental contact – not prearranged by the athletic department – with a prospect.
• Talk to a prospect via telephone only if the prospect initiates the conversation and the call is not for recruiting purposes.
• Watch a prospect's athletic contest, but may not have contact with that prospect.

A booster may not:

• Have face-to-face contact with a prospect or their parents, legal guardian(s), or relatives to encourage them to enroll at BYU or have any face-to-face contact in excess of the exchange of a greeting.
• Telephone or write to prospects or their parents, encouraging them to enroll at BYU.
• Mail anything to prospects, including newspapers, clippings, posters, programs, etc.
• Pick up videotapes or transcripts relating to a prospect at his/her high school or junior college.
• Contact a prospect's counselor, principal, or coach in an attempt to evaluate that recruit.
• Provide a prospective/enrolled student-athlete any benefit or special arrangement. Examples of "benefits" include but are not limited to: special discount payment arrangements; a loan of money in any amount; the use of a car; the purchase of meals or services at commercial establishments; selling or giving a student-athlete tickets to athletic, institution, or community events; the use of personal property; and providing holiday or birthday gifts.