Welcome D'Youville Student-Athletes!

This site is meant to serve as an eligibility guide for current student-athletes at D'Youville University. Please use this page to familiarize yourself with institutional, ECC, and NCAA Division II rules and regulations to protect your academic and athletic eligibility.

Gambling & Sports Wagering
The NCAA is proud of you for becoming a college student-athlete. It is proud of our country's long tradition of college sports. It wants to protect your bright future and the integrity of sports. That's why NCAA rules prohibit sports gambling of any kind by college student-athletes, coaches, trainers or anyone else involved with college sports.
As a college student-athlete, you must follow the rules of the NCAA. One of the rules, NCAA Bylaw 10.3, specifically prohibits sports gambling.
In clear, simple language, here's what the rule means:

You may not place any bet of any sort on any college or professional sports event.
You may not give information to anyone who does place bets on college or professional sports.
That means...
• NO wagers for any item (e.g., cash, shirt, dinner) on ANY professional or college sports event, even those that don't involve your college.
• NO sports "pools," even those run by your friends in the dorm.
• NO Internet gambling on sports events.
• NO fantasy leagues that award a prize and require a fee to participate.
• NO sports wagering using "800" numbers.
• NO exchange of information about your team with ANYONE who gambles. In other words, no information about injuries, new plays, team morale, discipline problems, or anything else.
NCAA rules are clear. The minute you are discovered to have made a bet of any kind on any college or professional sport ...Or to have given information to someone who does gamble ...
You are declared ineligible to compete in college sports. You are off the team.

If you accept or place a bet on any college or professional team other than your own, you will automatically be suspended for a minimum of one year and be charged with a season of competition.
If you accept or place a bet on any team at your school, you will be permanently ineligible. You risk losing your sports scholarship, being expelled from the school altogether, and/or being banned from other college and professional sports.
You also run the risk of being arrested and charged with a crime. That's because sports wagering is illegal in every state except Nevada. Sports bribery is illegal in every state. And even in Nevada, it is against NCAA rules for a student-athlete to make any wager on a sports event.
 
Extra Benefits Definition:
 Extra Benefit (Bylaw 16.02.3) – An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution's athletic interests (including fans) to provide a student-athlete or the student-athlete's relative or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by the NCAA legislation. Extra benefit regulations pertain to prospects as well.
 
According to Bylaw 16.01.1, receipt by a student-athlete of an award, benefit, or expense allowance not authorized by NCAA legislation renders the student-athlete ineligible to compete while representing the institution in the sport for which the improper award, benefit, or expense was received. If the student-athlete receives an extra benefit not authorized by NCAA legislation or an improper award or expense allowance in conjunction with competition that involves the use of overall athletic skill (e.g., "superstar" competition), the individual is ineligible for all sports
 
Exception for Benefits Available to Other Students (Bylaw 16.01.3) – The receipt of a benefit by a student-athlete or his or her friends that is not authorized by NCAA legislation is not a violation if it is demonstrated that the same general benefit is available to the institution's students, their relatives, and friends determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
 
Some Guidelines:

• You may not provide a prospect of a current student-athlete with money, gifts, loans, flowers, etc.
• You may not pay prospects of current student-athletes a fee for speaking engagements, give them free or reduced costs for professional services, pay fees for sports camps, or provide discount merchandise.
• You may not allow prospects of current student-athletes the use of an automobile, provide them tickets to athletic or community events, or provide favorable housing arrangements, reduced rent, or lodging of any kind.
• A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal from an institutional staff member or representative of athletics interest under the following conditions: (1) the meal may be provided in any location in the locale of the institution, (2) meals must be restricted to infrequent and special occasions, and (3) transportation to attend such meals may be provided.
• An institution may provide or arrange for occasional meals to team members provided by the relative of a student-athlete at any location.

NCAA Drug Testing Program

ILLEGAL DRUGS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE POLICY
According to the NCAA Drug Testing Program 2020-2021, the use of any substance on the current NCAA Banned Drug List is prohibited by all student-athletes. The D'Youville University Drug Testing Policy is a separate and distinct program from the NCAA drug-testing program and may test for substances not listed on the NCAA banned drug list as well as use detection levels which differ from the NCAA testing program.

Common prohibited drugs/banned substances include, but are not limited to:

• Amphetamines/methamphetamines (e.g., Adderall)
• Cocaine
• Marijuana
• Heroin and other opiates
• MDMA (Ecstasy/Molly)
• Ephedrine
• Oxycodone (OxyCotin)
• Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
• Synthetic cannabinoids (K2, Spice)
• Bath salts
• Anabolic Agents (Anabolic Steroids)
• Diuretics and other masking agents 
• Peptide hormones and analogues(hGh)
• Anti-estrogens
• Beta-2 agonists

DRUG TESTING PROGRAM

 
All student-athletes with remaining eligibility, who are listed on a roster, are subjected to drug testing. This includes student-athletes who qualify for medical hardship status, have been declared academically ineligible, are injured, and are on suspension and/or participating in the Safe Harbor Program.
 
As a condition of participation at D'Youville University, all student-athletes are required to comply with the Drug Testing Program. Failure to fully participate in the drug testing program will render a student-athlete ineligible to participate in all intercollegiate athletic programs. In addition, sanctions could include athletic scholarships being canceled. 

Please contact the Compliance Office with any questions or concerns regarding the information on this site.
 

Rules & Regulations:
D'Youville University Student-Athlete Handbook
NCAA Division II Manual
Name, Image, Likeness Policy
 

Student-Athlete Forms:
Student-Athlete Employment Form
Student & Prospect Host Forms: Host Agreement | Prospect Form
Fee for Lesson Form
Name, Image, Likeness Form