§7801 Definitions

Summary

Defines important words used in rules about student athletes, agents, and related contracts. Agency contract: a spoken or written deal where a student athlete lets someone negotiate or look for a professional sports job or an endorsement for them. Athlete agent: a person who signs that deal with a student athlete or who recruits a student athlete to sign one; it does not include a spouse, parent, sibling, grandparent, or guardian, a lawyer who is not acting as the athlete’s agent, or someone acting only for a professional team or organization. Athletic director: the person who runs a school’s athletic program (or the men’s or women’s program if run separately). Commission: the Federal Trade Commission. Endorsement contract: a deal where a student athlete is paid or employed to let their name, image, or likeness be used to promote a product, service, or event. Intercollegiate sport: a college-level sport governed by a national group that sets eligibility rules. Professional sports contract: a deal to be employed or to provide services as a player or professional athlete for a team or organization. State: includes any U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and any U.S. territory or insular possession under U.S. jurisdiction. Student athlete: someone who plays, is eligible to play, or might become eligible to play any intercollegiate sport; someone permanently ineligible for a sport is not a student athlete for that sport.