Compliance

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Compliance

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Wyoming Compliance Policy Statement

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) governs the actions of the University of Wyoming’s coaches, staff, and student-athletes. Institutional control is a fundamental requirement of NCAA legislation and is shared responsibility among all UW Athletic supporters. Institutional control includes oversight and responsibility for the actions of coaches, staff, student-athletes and boosters. It is the responsibility of the UW Athletics Compliance Office to educate our stakeholders and monitor compliance with NCAA and Mountain West Conference Rules.

The integrity of the institution is upheld by promptly investigating any known or alleged NCAA rules violations and self-reporting any confirmed infractions. Additionally, the Compliance Office strives to establish a student-athlete and coach-focused atmosphere by providing effective and consistent rules interpretations of Mountain West Conference or NCAA Legislation. Our goal is advanced by providing the institution’s athletics teams with every opportunity to be successful within the confines of NCAA rules.

This site will further assist coaches, prospective student-athletes, current student-athletes, parents, boosters and anyone else interested in University of Wyoming Athletics! Compliance is everyone’s responsibility and we need your help in ensuring the growth and success of Wyoming Athletics! The information on this site is designed to provide educational information outlined by the NCAA and to better inform those interested in college athletics generally.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to our staff if you have questions. We are more than willing to assist!

Peter Prigge

Colter Linford

Christy Cunningham

Associate Athletics Director

Compliance & Olympic Sports

Office Number: 307-766-3795

Email: pprigge@uwyo.edu

Director of Compliance

Office Number: 307-766-4037

Email: clinfor2@uwyo.edu

Financial Aid Coordinator

Office Number: 307-766-6101

Email: christy.cunningham@uwyo.edu

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Education Resources

As an NCAA member institution, the University of Wyoming is obligated to follow the rules governing intercollegiate athletics. The following documents are great resources in our efforts to educate coaches and stakeholders regarding NCAA rules.

Donations

The NCAA, in compliance with its Bylaw 13.15, regulates the manner in which the collegiate institution is permitted to contribute to an outside group/entity/organization.

The following are several points to consider when requesting a donation from Wyoming Athletics:
Interested organizations must pre-purchase any promotional items to be used with autograph donations. No items will be provided by Athletics.
Items may not be donated to any entity that benefits a high school, high-school aged students (i.e. prospective student-athletes) or affiliates of any high-school aged student groups in anyway. Prospective student-athletes are defined as any student who has started classes for the ninth grade.
An institution can not provide or arrange for financial assistance, directly or indirectly, to pay any costs of a prospective student-athlete's educational expenses.
An institution (or an institution's coach or representative of its athletics interests) may contribute to a non-athletics organization that includes prospective student-athletes and non-prospects (e.g., YMCA, YWCA, Boys and Girls Clubs), provided the assistance is not earmarked for a particular prospective student-athlete and is offered in conjunction with the organization's regular fund-raising activities.
It is not permissible for an institution's athletics department, in response to requests from high school (or preparatory school or two-year college) groups, to provide items (e.g., autographed balls, jerseys) to assist in raising money for its programs (athletics or other).
If another department of the institution is asked to provide donations to benefit prospects, such activity is permissible only if the donations are not earmarked specifically for an athletics purpose or used only to provide benefits to prospects' athletics programs.
An institution may not donate institutional memorabilia (e.g., jerseys, hats, T-shirts) to any organization for the purpose of being auctioned to raise funds to provide financial assistance to high school students to attend collegiate institutions.
An institution's athletics department staff member (e.g., coaching staff member) may not provide any financial contributions to a high school (or preparatory school or two-year college)athletics program through participation in a fund-raising event (e.g., paying greens fees to participate in a golf outing when any portion of the greens fees will go to benefit an athletics program).
An institution is prohibited from sponsoring a table, providing memorabilia or otherwise providing institutional support in conjunction with a banquet or other function that will directly or indirectly benefit prospective student-athletes (e.g., awards banquet conducted by a sports foundation, high school athletics banquet).

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