SOFTBALL recruiting calendars

2024-25 NCAA DIVISION I

Note: Softball coaches and non-coaching staff members with responsibilities specific to softball may only be employed at non-institutional camps and clinics that occur during recruiting calendar periods when evaluation at non-scholastic practice or competition activities is permissible.

August 1-11, 2024: Contact period

August 12-November 24: Evaluation period (for scholastic practice and competition activities only). Exceptions: Aug. 28-Sept. 3 (dead period); Oct. 19-20, 26-27, Nov. 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 (evaluation period for scholastic and non-scholastic practice or competition activities); Nov. 11-14 (dead period).

November 25-Jan. 2: Quiet period. Exception: Nov. 27-Dec. 1 (recruiting shutdown), Dec. 4-7 (dead period), Dec. 22-26 & Dec. 31-Jan. 2 (recruiting shutdown)

January 3-May 26: Evaluation period (for scholastic practice and competition activities only).

May 27-June 6*: Dead period.

June 7-July 31*: Contact period.

During high school regional and state championship competition that does not occur during a dead period: Evaluation period.

* Dates  are  based  on  the Women’s College World Series. If the WCWS dates are delayed, the dead period continues through the day of the final championship game. If the WCWS ends after two games, the dead period concludes on the day of the final game and the contact period begins the next day.

2024-25 NCAA DIVISION II

Dead Period: November 11 (7 a.m.) to Nov. 13 (7 a.m.), 2024 (during the 48 hours prior to 7 a.m. on the initial date for the signing of the National Letter of Intent).

NCAA RECRUITING CALENDAR TERMS

Contact period

A college coach may have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools and write or telephone student-athletes or their parents.

Evaluation period

A college coach may watch college-bound student-athletes compete, visit their high schools and write or telephone student-athletes or their parents. However, a college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents off the college’s campus during an evaluation period.

Quiet period

A college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. Coaches may write or telephone college-bound student-athletes or their parents during this time.

Dead period

A college coach may not have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools. Coaches may write and telephone student-athletes or their parents during a dead period.

Recruiting shutdown

A recruiting shutdown is a period of time when no form of recruiting (e.g., contacts, evaluations, official or unofficial visits, correspondence or making or receiving telephone calls) is permissible.