(d) Contact shall not be made with the prospective student-athlete involved in competition that requires participation on consecutive days (e.g., a tournament) until after his or her final contest is completed and he or she is released by the appropriate institutional authority and leaves the dressing and meeting facility. Contact shall not be made with a prospective student-athlete involved in a tournament that is not conducted on consecutive days until after his or her final contest is completed on a day before a break in the days of the tournament and he or she is released by the appropriate institutional authority and leaves the dressing and meeting facility; (Revised: 1/11/94, 9/18/07)What that states is if the tournament has games on consecutive days, you cannot talk to a PSA following their game if they play again the next day. If their team loses and they are out of the tournament, then you can talk with that team following the loss. There is also a second part to this bylaw, which states that if there is an off-day following a game, then you can speak with a PSA following their release from team activities for the night.
When considering this legislation, please also remember that 13.1.7.14 covers evaluations of tournament events. This bylaw will tell you that evaluations of multiple events in a tournament conducted on consecutive days will count as a single evaluation. And evaluations of a single tier of a tournament also count as a single evaluations, unless the single tier of the tournament takes place over several non-consecutive days.
Please be sure to take both of these bylaws into account as you plan your spring recruiting, especially if you are planning to attend the various state tournaments.
