Working with Recruits

Variety of Tools Provide Insight and Organization

As Division III members look to their spring recruits, a reminder that Eligibility Center offers a number of valuable tools for working with your recruits and their EC accounts.

Been a minute since you reviewed a recruit's account, or logged in to the EC's Membership Portal? Click here to refresh yourself with this most important resource.
Be sure to activate international recruits enrolling in the winter/spring to your 2024-25 IRL, but add your fall 2025 term enrollees to your 2025-26 IRL.
Monitor the task list for each international student and work with each student to make sure they are responding to open tasks as soon as possible.
If you need to submit a matriculation date for a recruit, log in to the Membership Portal and click on the Resources tab. The Matriculation Form link is located in the Eligibility Center Forms section of the right-hand column. Remember: Matriculation dates must be submitted through the Membership Portal. The Eligibility Center cannot accept a statement on institutional letterhead. For more information on the matriculation date, click here.
Before students request final amateurism certification, they should review and update their sports participation history. To locate accounts for students who have not entered any information about sports participation, you should use the "Open Tasks Report – Action Required" option in the Additional Reports section of the Membership Portal.
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Troubleshooting Student-Athlete Accounts

Top questions the EC staff receives regarding student accounts

Why can't I find my recruits Eligibility Center account for activation to our IRL? When using the IRL Activation tab, best practice is to only enter the student-athlete's NCAA ID, then select the “All Account Types” option to get the best search results. Students with non-paid Amateurism-Only Certification accounts will not appear in the search results page.
Can a Division I or II transfer use their same Eligibility Center account or should they start a new one for transferring to our Division III school? Students should not create a second account. Their current Eligibility Center certification account is sufficient. Please don't ask your recruits to pay for a second account!
Do grad students need to receive an amateurism certification from the EC? Yes, if their initial DIII enrollment is fall 2023 and beyond.

Are Your Midyear Enrollees Ready

If you are welcoming a midyear enrollee to campus, be sure to review the items they need to complete in order to be ready to compete when they get to campus! For a complete list of reminders, review the December issue of this newsletter.

2024 Membership Survey Results

Thank you to the 129 member representatives who responded to the Eligibility Center's 2024 Membership Survey! Our team values your input and evaluates the survey content for opportunities to better serve our membership.

NCAA membership was represented by all three divisions with most respondents listing "compliance administrator" as their title, as follows:

Results found the majority of respondents were satisfied with their interaction with the EC during the 2023-24 academic season. From the responses received, 88% of respondents stated the EC exceeded or met their expectations during the 2023-24 academic year, as shown below.

Watch this newsletter for additional survey results. If you missed the opportunity to participate in the 2024 survey, watch for release of our 2025 survey early this fall. The Eligibility Center looks forward to continuous improvement and enhanced services for our membership based on these survey results.

Division III Resources

The Eligibility Center maintains Division III resources on the Membership Portal. Look for Division III-specific resources in the middle of the center column on the portal. Here you'll find the most updated version of resources, from guides and webinar recordings or compliance administrators to information to share with your recruits.

These Division III-specific resources are focused on the Eligibility Center's amateurism certification process and the unique needs of your campus. Have an idea for a resource or a suggestion for an existing one? Send your ideas to ecupdate@ncaa.org.

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