Eligibility Requirements
Who can play?
The following are eligible participants in the intramural sports program:
- All current ASU-Tempe students, Secondary Students, Continuing Students, or non ASU students paying full-time or part-time Student Recreation Complex fees.
- All Faculty/Staff or Secondary Faculty/Staff who have purchased a Student Recreation Complex membership.
- All Alumni who have purchased a Student Recreation Complex membership.
Each team captain and participant is responsible for verifying the eligibility of their team.
Roster Eligibility
- To facilitate equitable access to physical recreation programs and recreational sports experiences for all participants, the following guidelines were developed:
- In the Competitive League, a player may participate on one team in each sport league (Greek, Independent, Res Hall, and Academic College) and one CoRec team. Thus, for example, one can play on one Greek team and one Independent team in each sport plus a CoRec team, but cannot play on two Greek teams.
- Teams may not play ineligible players, even with the mutual agreement by both teams.
- A player must appear on the official team roster to be eligible for playoffs. Rosters are frozen prior to the first playoff match.
- Women may play in a men’s league provided that no comparable sport league was offered for women.
Player Eligibility
To facilitate equitable access to physical recreation programs and recreational sports experiences for all participants, the following guidelines were developed:
1. Members of Intercollegiate Athletic teams during the academic year are ineligible in their respective or associated sports.
Associated Sports are:
Basketball - 3 on 3 Basketball, Basketball Skills Challenge, 5v5 Basketball League
Volleyball - 2v2 and 4v4 Sand Volleyball, Volleyball League
Baseball/Fast Pitch Softball - Softball League
Football - Flag Football League
2. Students who compete for a varsity team in one or more games or meets, and are dropped for any reason, are ineligible for the remainder of the year.
3. Former ICA members may participate in intramural competition after their eligibility is complete.
4. Students receiving financial assistance for ICA, or for any other reason is determined ineligible for ICA, is also ineligible for that intramural sport.
5. Members of Sport Clubs are ELIGIBLE in their respective sport with the following restrictions: The players must play in the highest division offered and their team roster may not have more than two (2) club players on it. For Dual Sports, their roster may not have more than one (1) sport club player on it. For Individual events, club players are not allowed to participate. If a person is on the roster for that Sport Club, he/she is considered a Sport Club member.
6. Former professional athletes (received monetary compensation for the sole purpose of participation in a sport) and varsity letter winners at 4–year and 2-year colleges and universities are eligible to participate in the highest level of competition only. No more than two (2) of these players may be on any one (1) intramural sports team.
Consequences for Ineligible Players:
- A team using a player who does not meet eligibility requirements will forfeit all contests in which that player participated AND that player will not be allowed to continue to play in that sport.
- During league play: Any team caught using an ineligible player(s) shall forfeit all games in which that player participated, and surrenders their right to compete in any playoff competition.
- During playoffs or Tourney format: Any team caught using an ineligible player(s) shall forfeit the game immediately and the other team will be rewarded a win and will advance.
- Any person playing under an assumed name or ID number shall be barred from Intramural Competition during the remainder of the year and the team penalized with losses for all the games in which the violator participated.