i. Team members
will be free to participate in any recreational venue or activity open to
all other students, and to have whatever supervision is provided in those
circumstances. Sport specific facilities and equipment normally open only
to team members or permitted to be used only under the supervision of the
coaching staff for safety reasons (e.g. archery range, gymnastics venue, rowing
tanks, rowing shells) may not be used by team members during these "rest
periods."
ii. When a rest
period is scheduled in the first two weeks of the fall term, a team coach
may conduct on organizational meeting for prospective team members during
that time provided no physical or sport-related activity occurs.
iii. Rest periods
will be scheduled so that each student-athlete has a rest period of 49 days
per academic year. The choice of rest periods must include the 7 days prior
to all out-of-season examination periods. All rest period schedules must be
approved by a designated institutional administrator.
1. Periods
must be scheduled at a time when classes, reading period, or examinations
are in schedule.
2. For an in-season day to count as a day-off the entire team must have
the day off. Out-of-season days may be scheduled separately for individuals.
3. Periods
may be scheduled during times when there is the possibility of post-season
play only if time remains in the academic year for that time to be reschedule
(note especially in spring sports). With the permission of the Ivy Office,
a rest period may be scheduled in individual sports during time of post-season
play if a very small number of students are participating in such play and
the time is rescheduled for those individuals.
4. In spring
sports no more than 14 days may be scheduled after the end of the regular
season.
iv. Students
who participate in three seasons (particularly cross country, indoor and outdoor
track) will be encouraged to take time off between seasons
v. The Ivy Office
may grant a waiver for reduced rest periods, or to move part of a rest period
for one or more individuals to a time different from that scheduled for that
team, under these specific circumstances and if requested by the institution's
Policy Committee member: for individual athletes who are training for a specific
national or international event and who would be significantly disadvantage
if prohibited from training with a team coach (e.g., swimmer preparing for
national-team/Olympic selection trials in April, after end of college season).
