Compliance for Student-Athletes
Intercollegiate athletics programs shall be conducted in a manner designed to protect and enhance the physical and educational well-being of student-athletes.
NCAA Bylaw 2.2 The Principle of Student-Athlete Well-Being.
Requesting Complimentary Tickets
Complimentary Ticket Policies
Conditions for student-athletes to request tickets:
- Student-athletes may only request complimentary tickets for their own sport
- No more than four (4) tickets may be requested directly by a student-athlete for regular season competitions; however, a student-athlete may have additional tickets transferred to him/her by teammates
- During post-season competition, student-athletes may request up to six (6) tickets; student-athletes may have additional tickets transferred for post-season competitions
- Student-athlete complimentary ticket requests for road competitions are subject to availability and the opponets' institutional policies
- All student-athlete requests must be submitted prior to the competition in ARMS Software
- Recipients of the tickets must present photo identification and receive their tickets through a pass list approved by SHSU compliance staff
- Student-athletes are prohibited from selling their complimentary tickets
Playing and competing in athletics for Sam Houston State University is a privilege not a right. As a visible representative of the university, student-athletes are held to a high standard of conduct. Inappropriate social media posts (or implicit approval of such posts by “likes,” “retweets,” etc.) by SHSU student-athletes tarnishes the reputation of SHSU and its athletics department.
While all persons are permitted the freedoms of speech and thought in the United States, nobody is spared from the negative consequences of the inappropriate use of these freedoms. Posts by SHSU student-athletes that are deemed harassing or hateful or any posts that appear to approve of illegal behavior (e.g., drug use, underage drinking, use of violence, etc.) may result in disciplinary actions. These disciplinary actions will be at the discretion of SHSU administrators (e.g., athletics department, Title IX staff, heads of academic departments, etc.) and may include the suspension or removal of the offending student-athlete from school and/or athletics teams and the loss of his/her scholarship.
SHSU coaching staffs have discretion to enact stricter social media rules than the general guidelines listed above. These social media rules should be clearly communicated by SHSU coaches to their student-athletes.
