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(15 in men’s basketball), they have no scholarships available for Student-Athlete R during the summer session. To offer a
scholarship to this student-athlete, the college must first release one student-athlete as per the reasons in Article VI, Section
1.D.1 prior to signing this student-athlete to a Letter of Intent for the summer term.

Case 7
NJCAA Letters of Intent – Manager Scholarships
SITUATION:
Community College A wishes to give an athletic scholarship to the manager of their men’s basketball team. Does this
scholarship count towards the overall number of scholarships allowed for the sport of basketball as per the NJCAA Sport
Procedures?
ANSWER:
No. Manager scholarships are monitored by individual colleges, regions, and/or conferences in the NJCAA and are
not to be submitted in the online NJCAA Letter of Intent program. However, if a manager receiving an athletic scholarship
participates during the season or any season thereafter, he/she would then be considered a student-athlete and would count
towards the overall number of maximum scholarships. They would be counters in the current year as well as retroactively in
years which they received the mangers scholarship. Appropriate penalties would be assessed should the college be over the
allowable limits in any of those years.

Case 8
NJCAA Letter of Intent - Club Team
SITUATION:
May Community College A, who has declared themselves a club team, utilize the NJCAA Letter of Intent to bind a student-
athlete to their college?
ANSWER:
No. Only intercollegiate varsity/JV programs may utilize the NJCAA Letter of Intent.

Signing Procedures

Case 1
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Signing NJCAA Letter of Intent by 15 Calendar Day of the Term
SITUATION:
Can Community College A’s athletic and financial aid departments go ahead and start giving athletic scholarships to
members of their men’s basketball team at the start of the fall term even though the student-athletes haven’t signed NJCAA
Letters of Intent?
ANSWER:
No. According to NJCAA bylaws, the original terms of the grant-in-aid (athletic scholarship) must be submitted online in the
form of an online NJCAA Letter prior to any benefit being provided.

Case 3
Issuing a Letter of Intent to Another Athlete Within the Same Academic Year
SITUATION:
Community College A signed eight (maximum number of letters of intent) student-athletes in men’s golf. The college had to
release one student-athlete from his letter of intent during the fall term. When can that athletic scholarship be issued to another
student-athlete on the men’s golf team?
ANSWER:
That athletic scholarship may be awarded to another member of the men’s golf team after the end of the fall term and that
letter of intent must be submitted prior to any benefit being provided.

Case 4
NJCAA Signing Date
SITUATION:
Student-Athlete R is being recruited to compete in volleyball and track & field. Which signing date must Student-Athlete R
abide by when signing a NJCAA Letter of Intent?

ANSWER:
NJCAA Letters of Intent must be signed and submitted separately – one for each sport. The signing date for each sport
must be abided by.

Case 5
Submitting NJCAA Letter of Intent
SITUATION:
Community College A signs Student-Athlete R to a 2019-2020 NJCAA Letter of Intent and the form is signed in accordance
with the signing procedures and within the signing dates indicated on the form. Community College A then mails the Letter of
Intent to the NJCAA National Office. Is this proper procedure?
ANSWER:
No. All signings of letters of intent beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year and beyond must be submitted online and
the original signed copies of the letters of intent should be kept on file at the college and submitted to the NJCAA National
Office only upon request or as part of the college’s eligibility audit.