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Women’s Basketball Recruiting Calendar

The NCAA places different recruiting rules on sports, and it’s important for prospective collegiate athletes to understand and keep track of the rules. If you break a rule, you ruin your eligibility. If you don’t take advantage of the rules and get as much contact as possible with your favorite coaches, you may not get a place on the team.

Here is a chart of the types of contact you’re allowed to receive from college coaches off of their campuses. If you go to their campus, the only time you can’t talk to the coach is during a dead period (see the second chart).

Allowed Off-Campus Recruiting Contact by Year in High School

High School Year	Division I	Division II	Division III
Freshman	Recruiting Materials: You are only allowed to receive questionnaires and camp brochures.	Recruiting Materials: You are only allowed to receive questionnaires and camp brochures.	Recruiting Materials: Permissible Telephone Calls: No limitations
Sophomore	Recruiting Materials: You are only allowed to receive questionnaires and camp brochures.	Recruiting Materials: You are only allowed to receive questionnaires and camp brochures.	Recruiting Materials: Permissible Telephone Calls: No limitations
Junior	Recruiting Materials: You may start receiving printed recruiting materials on September 1st. Telephone Calls: You may receive One April call on or after the Thursday following the Women’s Final Four. One call in May. One call between June 1st and June 20th. One call between June 21st and June 30th. Three calls in the month of July after your Junior year.	Recruiting Materials: You may start receiving athletics recruiting materials September 1st of your sophomore year. Off-campus contact: You may begin receiving off-campus contact on June 15th, but you may receive no more than 3 off-campus contacts.	Recruiting Materials: Permissible Telephone Calls: No limitations Off-campus contact: Permissible after the conclusion of the Junior year.
Senior	Telephone Calls: You may receive one phone call a week Off Campus Contact: You may begin being contacted after September 16th. Official Visit: You may make an official visit to a college beginning the opening day of your classes.	Telephone calls: Beginning on June 15th, you may start receiving one telephone call a week. Official Visit: You may make an official visit to a college beginning the opening day of your classes.	Recruiting Materials: Permissible Telephone Calls: No limitations Off-campus contact: Permissible Official visits: May begin the opening day of classes.

Even during the years in high school when students are allowed to be contacted by college coaches, the coaches are limited in how they are allowed to contact the students they’re interested. The NCAA created contact periods of different types, and the types of contact allowed during each period must be followed to maintain eligibility.

Assuming your academics are good enough to make you eligible for college sports, it’s important to understand the NCAA’s Recruiting Terms. (Contact Period, Dead Period, Evaluation Period and Quiet Period).

Division I Women’s Basketball Recruiting Calendar 2008 - 2009 School Year

Dates	Periods (Terms)
August 1 – September 15, 2008	Quiet Period
September 16, 2008, through April 21, 2009, Women’s basketball staff members shall not exceed 100 recruiting-person days. A recruiting person day is defined as one coach engaged in an off-campus recruiting activity of a women’s basketball prospect on one day; two coaches engaged in recruiting activities on the same day shall use two recruiting days. With the following 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 exceptions Below:	Evaluation Period
(1) September 15 – October 6, 2008 October 3 - 5, 2008 Evaluations permitted at non-scholastic women’s basketball events.	Contact Period
(2) November 10-13, 2008	Dead Period
(3) December 24-26, 2008	Dead Period
(4) March 1 through April 2, 2009	Contact Period
(5) December 24 – December 26, 2007	Dead Period
March 1 – April 3, 2008	Contact Period
April 3 - 16, 2009 With the following exceptions a and b:	Dead Period
(a) One women’s basketball event certified by the NCAA held in conjunction with, and conducted in the host city of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship:	Evaluation Period
(b) April 10 - 12, 2009	Evaluation Period
April 18-20, 2008	Evaluation Period
Evaluations permitted at non-scholastic women’s basketball events -- April 17-19, 2009.
April 22 through July 5, 2009	Quiet Period
July 6-15, 2009	Evaluation Period
July 16-21, 2009 It is permissible for an institution to have contact with a prospect who is enrolled in the institution’s summer term (i.e., summer session or summer bridge program) and has signed a National Letter of Intent or other written commitment to attend the institution.	Dead Period
July 22-31, 2009	Evaluation Period

Exceptions:

1. Evaluations are permitted during the National Junior College Athletic Association championship competition.

2. Evaluations are permissible in the following states only during the time periods listed, provided evaluations outside of the July period are counted toward the 100 recruiting-person days set forth above:

Hawaii: March 1-May 31 and July 8-31

All states (except Hawaii) that play the high school basketball season in the spring: April 8-28 and July 8 -31

Division II Women’s Basketball Recruiting Calendar 2008 - 2009 School Year

Dates	Periods (terms)
June 1-14, 2008	Quiet Period
June 15 through August 1, 2008	Evaluation period
August 2 through September 6, 2008	Quiet Period
September 7 through October 14, 2008	Contact Period
October 15, 2008 to the date of the prospect’s initial high school or two-year college contest	Quiet Period
November 10 (7 a.m.) through November 12 (7 a.m.), 2008	Dead Period
The period between the prospect’s initial and final high school or two-year college contests	Evaluation Period
March 1 through May 19, 2009 (with the exceptions of 1 below)	Contact Period
(1) April 13 (7 a.m.) through April 15, 2009,(7 a.m.)	Dead Period
During four sanctioned Amateur Athletic Union women’s events occurring between May 18 and June 14 selected at the discretion of the institution and designated in writing in the office of the director of athletics	Evaluation Period
During any high school all-star game that occurs within the state in which the member institution is located	Evaluation Period
During the Saturday before the start of the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship through Wednesday noon after the Championship game April 4-8 (Noon), 2009	Dead Period
All other dates:	Quiet Period

Division III Women’s Basketball Recruiting Calendar 2008 - 2009 School Year

Division III Women’s Basketball has no dead periods, quiet periods, evaluation periods or contact periods.


Related Recruiting Calendar articles:

Men's Basketball - Updated 12/11/08
Women's Basketball - Updated 12/11/08
Men's Lacrosse - Updated 12/11/08
Women's Lacrosse - Updated 12/11/08
Men's Soccer - Updated 12/11/08
Women's Soccer - NEW!!
Women's Field Hockey - NEW!!
Football - NEW!!
Baseball - NEW!!
Softball - NEW!!
Women's Volleyball– Coming Soon!!

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