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13.11.3.8 Voluntary Summer Conditioning—Basketball. In basketball, a prospective student-athletemay engage in voluntary summer workouts conducted by an institution’s strength and conditioning coach withdepartment-wide duties and may receive workout apparel (on an issuance and retrieval basis), provided he or shehas signed a National Letter of Intent. (Adopted: 4/29/04, Revised: 7/20/04, 1/14/08, 8/26/10, 1/19/13 effective8/1/13)13.11.3.8.1 Mandatory Medical Examination. Prior to participation in any weight-training or conditioningworkouts conducted by an institution’s strength and conditioning coach, a prospective studentathletewho will be a first-time participant shall be required to undergo a medical examination or evaluationadministered or supervised by a physician (e.g., family physician, team physician). The examination or evaluationshall include a sickle cell solubility test unless documented results of a prior test are provided to theinstitution or the prospective student-athlete declines the test and signs a written release. The examinationor evaluation must have been administered within six months prior to participation in any weight-trainingor conditioning activity. (Adopted: 1/8/07 effective 5/1/07, Revised: 4/29/10 effective 8/1/10)13.11.3.8.2 Strength and Conditioning Coach First Aid/CPR Certification and Authority ofSports Medicine Staff. A strength and conditioning coach who conducts voluntary weight-training orconditioning activities is required to maintain certification in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.If a member of the institution’s sports medicine staff (e.g., athletic trainer, physician) is present during voluntaryconditioning activities conducted by a strength and conditioning coach, the sports medicine staffmember must be empowered with the unchallengeable authority to cancel or modify the workout for healthand safety reasons, as he or she deems appropriate. (Adopted: 1/15/11 effective 5/1/11)13.11.3.9 Required Summer Athletic Activities—National Service Academies—Incoming Freshmen—Basketball.In basketball, a national service academy may designate eight weeks (not required to beconsecutive weeks) of the summer during which incoming freshmen student-athletes who are enrolled in requiredsummer on-campus military training may engage in required weight-training, conditioning and skillrelatedinstruction. Participation in such activities shall be limited to a maximum of eight hours per week withnot more than two hours per week spent on skill-related instruction. (Adopted: 1/14/12, Revised: 1/19/13 effective8/1/13)13.11.3.9.1 Mandatory Medical Examination. Before participating in any required summer athleticactivities, a prospective student-athlete shall be required to undergo a medical examination or evaluation administeredor supervised by a physician (e.g., family physician, team physician). The examination or evaluationshall include a sickle cell solubility test unless documented results of a prior test are provided to theinstitution or the prospective student-athlete declines the test and signs a written release. The examinationor evaluation must have been administered within six months before participation in any athletic activity.(Adopted: 1/14/12)13Recruiting13.12 Sports Camps and Clinics.13.12.1 Institution’s Sports Camps and Clinics.13.12.1.1 Definition. An institution’s sports camp or instructional clinic shall be any camp or clinic that isowned or operated by a member institution or an employee of the member institution’s athletics department,either on or off its campus, and in which prospective student-athletes participate. (Adopted: 1/11/89, Revised:1/10/90, 4/26/01 effective 8/1/01)13.12.1.1.1 Definition of Prospective Student-Athlete—Men’s Basketball. In men’s basketball,for purposes of Bylaw 13.12, the phrase “prospective student-athlete” shall include any individual who hasstarted classes for the seventh grade. (Adopted: 1/17/09)13.12.1.1.1.1 Definition of Recruited Prospective Student-Athlete—Men’s Basketball. Inmen’s basketball, for purposes of applying Bylaw 13.12, a recruited prospective student-athlete is aprospective student-athlete who has been recruited pursuant to the definition of recruiting in Bylaw13.02.13 or the definition of a recruited prospective student-athlete pursuant to Bylaw 13.02.13.1. Inaddition, a men’s basketball prospective student-athlete is considered a recruited prospective studentathleteif any of the following conditions have occurred: (Adopted: 10/29/09)(a) The prospective student-athlete’s attendance at any institutional camp or clinic has been solicitedby the institution (or a representative of the institution’s athletics interests);(b) The institution has provided any recruiting materials to the prospective student-athlete;(c) An institutional coaching staff member has had any recruiting contact [including in-person orelectronic contact (e.g., telephone calls, video conference, electronic correspondence)] with theprospective student-athlete (including contact initiated by the prospective student-athlete);(d) The prospective student-athlete has received a verbal offer of athletically related financial aidfrom the institution; or(e) The prospective student-athlete has verbally committed to attend the institution.117