Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Nebraska School Activity Association Summer rules

1. Summer activities can only be conducted between June 1 and July 31. Any attempts for coaches to work with students before June 1 and after July 31 are covered by the organized practice rule.

2. Local school clinics, school camps, summer leagues, and other similar activities can only occur between June 1 and July 31. If students participate in such activities prior to June 1, coaches are subject to the organized practice rule.

3. No head, assistant, or volunteer coach, nor any other adult associated with the program, may have coaching contact with students before June 1 or after July 31, unless the limits spelled out in the organized practice rule are followed. The organized practice rules allows no more than five football or soccer players; or four basketball, wrestling, softball, volleyball, or baseball athletes; or three track, swimming, golf, tennis, or cross country athletes.

4. If summer leagues starts before June 1, coaches cannot coach their athletes in those leagues until after June 1 unless the organized practice limits are enforced.

5. No coach or school representative may directly or by implication direct a student to attend camps, clinics, conditioning sessions, or other such sessions as a condition for membership on a high school team, nor may attendance be tied to being able to make a particular level of team participation (varsity, junior varsity)