HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY
TRY-OUT INFORMATION
Notice: Complete this information for each student prior to the try-out.
NCAA MANUAL REMINDERS:
13.11 TRY-OUTS. (NCAA manual)
HSU encourages the coaching staff to familiarize themselves with the regulations of a sport try-out that are listed under this section of the NCAA manual. (Following are selected excerpts from the NCAA manual.)
13.11.1 Prohibited Activities. (NCAA manual)
13.11.2 Permissible Activities. (NCAA manual)
13.11.2.1 TRY-OUTS. A member institution may conduct a tryout of a prospect only on its campus or at a site at which it normally conducts practice or competition and only under the following conditions:
a.) No more than one try-out per prospect per institution per sport shall be permitted;
b.) The try-out may be conducted only for high school seniors who are enrolled in a term other than the term in which the prospective student-athlete's high school's traditional season in the sport occurs or who have completed high school eligibility in the sport; for a two-year college student, after the conclusion of the sport season or anytime, provided the student has exhausted his or her two-year college eligibility in the sport; and for a four-year college student, after the conclusion of the sport season, provided written permission to contact the prospective student-athlete (per bylaw 12.1.1.2) has been obtained. (4/11/06)
c.) Pior to participation in a tryout, a prospective student-athlete is required to undergo a medical examination or evaluation administered or supervised by a physician (e.g., family physician, team physician). the examination or evaluation must be administered within six months prior to participation in the tryout. The medical examination or evaluation may be conducted by an institution's regular team physician or other designated physician as a part of the tryout; (Revised: 4/17/07 effective 8/1/07)
(d) The tryout may include test to evaluate the prospect's strength, speed, agility and sports skills. Except in the sport of football, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer and wrestling, the try-out may include competition. In the sport of football, the prospects shall not wear helmets or pads;
e.) Competition against the member institution's tem is permissible, provided such competition occurs during the academic year and is considered a countable athletic related activity;
f.) The time of the try-out activities (other than the physical examination) shall be limited to the length of the institution's normal practice period in the sport but in no event shall be longer than two hours; and
g.) The institution may provide equipment and clothing on an issuance-and-retrieval basis to a prospect during the period of the try-out.
17.02.12 Try-outs for the Enrolled Student. (NCAA manual)
a.) No more than one try-out per student per sport shall be permitted during any academic year.
b.) The student must not have been recruited (12.02.9.1)
c.) The student must be in a good academic standing.
d.) A medical examination of a student conducted by an institutions regular team physician or other designated physician shall be permitted as a part of the tryout.
e.) The time of the try-out activities shall be limited to the length of the institutions normal practice period in the sport but in no event shall it be longer than two hours.
f.)Competition against the members institution's team is permissible, provided such competition occurs during the academic year in is countable activity per bylaw 17.02.1.1.
g.) No more than three dates may be used to conduct tryouts in each sport.
STUDENT-ATHLETE INFORMATION:
NAME OF PROSPECT:_____________________________________________________________
SPORT:_________________________________ DATE OF TRY-OUT:_________________
TIME TRY-OUT BEGINS:__________________ TIME TRY-OUT ENDS:_______________
LOCATION OF TRY-OUT:_________________ COACH IN CHARGE:_________________
CHECK ONE: _____HIGH SCHOOL PROSPECT, _____TWO-YEAR PROSPECT, _____FOUR-YEAR PROSPECT
SIGNATURE OF HSU HEAD COACH (TRY-OUT COACH):_________________________________DATE:_____________
APPROVED BY HSU COMPLIANCE OFFICER:__________________________________________DATE:_____________
Return to: Associate AD David H. Thigpen Ed. D. in Wells 108N prior to the try-out.
ASSUMPTION OF RISK FOR TRY-OUTS
I. Risk of Injury- Intercollegiate athletics may constitute a dangerous activity involving the risk of injury. Those dangers and risk of participation include, but are not limited to death, severe neck and spinal injuries that may cause partial or complete paralysis, brain damage, severe internal injury severe injury to bones, joints tendons, ligaments, muscles, and other aspects of the musculoskeletal system, and damage to property. It is understood that such injury may result in serious impairment of future abilities to engage in other business and generally enjoy life.
Henderson State University Sports Medicine/Athletic Training is only allowed to give basic First Aid treatment for any injury sustained during this try-out.
II. Acknowledgement and Assumption of Risk- I have read the above notice carefully and hereby assume all risks of damages of injury, including death that I may sustain while participating in or traveling with intercollegiate athletics.
I hereby release and forever discharge Henderson State University and the Board of Directors, its members individually, its officers, agents, and employees of any and all claims, demands, rights and causes of action arising from all known, unknown, foreseen, and unforeseen bodily and personal injury, damage to property, and consequences thereof resulting from participation in intercollegiate athletics.
I hereby assume all cost responsibilities relating to any injury that might occur while participating in this try-out.
IN SIGNING THIS RELEASE, I ACKNOWLEDGE AND REPRESENT THAT
I have fully informed myself of the contents of the foregoing Waiver of Liability and Hold Harmless Agreement by reading it before I signed it, and that I understand it and that I sign this document freely and voluntarily, no oral representation, statements, or inducements, apart from the foregoing written agreement, have been made. I further state that I am at least eighteen (18) years of age and fully competent to sign this agreement; (OR if under the age of eighteen (18) a co-signature of parent or guardian) and that I execute this Release for full, adequate consideration fully intending to be bound by the same.
SIGNATURE OF STUDENT-ATHLETE:_______________________________DATE:_____________
SIGNATURE OF PARENT (is S-A is a minor):___________________________________________DATE:_____________
STUDENT-ATHLETE DATE OF BIRTH:___________________________
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION REPORT FORM RECEIVED:__________________________________DATE:______________