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Division I NCAA Recruiting Calendars by Sport

Division I Bowl Subdivision Football Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–31, 2024: Dead period

    • Except: The 48 hours before a home game in August or September 1-2 through the 48 hours after the conclusion of the game is considered a quiet period

  • September 1 – December 1, 2024: Evaluation period

    • Thirty-three (42 for U.S. service academies) evaluation days during the fall evaluation period

  • December 2–8, 2024: Dead period

  • December 9–22, 2024: Quiet period

  • December 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: January 1–5, 2024: Quiet period for two- and four-year college transfer prospective student-athletes who intend to enroll midyear

  • January 6 – February 1, 2025: Contact period

    • Except: Jan 12 Quiet Period

    • Except: Jan 13–15 Dead Period

  • February 2, 2025: Quiet period

  • February 3 – March 2, 2025: Dead period

  • March 3 – April 14, 2025: Quiet period

  • April 15 – May 25, 2025: Contact period

    • One hundred forty (180 for U.S. service academies) recruiting-person days (see Bylaw 13.02.11) during the spring contact period

  • May 25–28, 2025: Dead period

  • May 29 – June 22, 2025: Quiet period

  • June 24 – July 31, 2024: Dead period

Division I Championship Subdivision Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–31, 2024: Dead period

    • Except: Forty-eight hours before a home contest (on the institution’s campus or in a facility normally used for its home games) that occurs in August or on Sept. 1 or 2 through 48 hours after the conclusion of the contest

  • September 1 – December 1, 2024: Quiet period

    • Thirty-three (42 for U.S. service academies) evaluation days during the fall evaluation period

  • December 2–5, 2024: Dead period

  • December 6–19, 2024: Contact period

  • December 20–22, 2024: Quiet period

  • December 23 – January 5, 2025: Dead period

    • January 1–5, 2025: Quiet period for two- and four-year college transfer prospective student-athletes who intend to enroll midyear

  • January 12, 2025: Quiet period

  • January 13–15, 2025: Dead period

  • February 2, 2025: Quiet period

  • February 3 – March 2, 2025: Dead period

  • March 3 – April 14, 2025: Quiet period

  • April 15 – May 24, 2025: Contact period

    • One hundred forty (180 for U.S. service academies) recruiting-person days (see Bylaw 13.02.11) during the spring contact period

  • May 25–28, 2025: Dead period

Division I Men’s Basketball Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1 – September 3, 2024: Quiet period

    • Exception: August 6–20, 2024: Dead period

  • September 4 – April 30, 2024: Recruiting period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

    • Except: December 24–26, 2024: Dead period

    • Except: April 3–10, 2025: Dead period

  • May 1 – June 30, 2025: Quiet period

    • Except: May 11, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: May 16–18, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: May 21 – June 1, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 15, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 19, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 20 (noon) – 22, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: June 27 (noon) – 29, 2025: Evaluation period

  • July 1–30, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 10–13, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: July 18–20, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: July 21–23, 2025: Evaluation period

  • August 1–31, 2025: Quiet period

    • Except: August 6–20, 2025: Dead period

  • *A prospective student-athlete may not make an unofficial visit during July unless they have signed a National Letter of Intent, an offer of admission/financial aid, or made a financial deposit to the institution

Division I Women’s Basketball Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–31, 2024: Quiet period

    • Except: August 12–18, 2024: Recruiting shutdown

  • September 1–30, 2024: Evaluation period (For seniors and two-year college PSAs only; scholastic activities for other PSAs)

  • October 1 – February 28, 2025: Evaluation period (scholastic activities only)

    • Except: December 24–26, 2024: Dead period

  • March 1 – April 2, 2025: Evaluation period (For seniors and two-year college PSAs only; scholastic activities for other PSAs)

  • April 3–7, 2025: Dead period

  • April 8 – July 31, 2025: Quiet period

    • Except: April 25–27, 2025: Evaluation period (Certified non-scholastic events only)

    • Except: May 5–11, 2025: Recruiting shutdown

    • Except: May 16–18, 2025: Evaluation period (Certified non-scholastic events only)

    • Except: June 10–11, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 12 (noon) – June 14 (6 pm), 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: July 9–10, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: July 11–14, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: July 15–17, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: July 18, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: July 25–28, 2025: Evaluation period (NCAA College Basketball Academy only)

Division I Baseball Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–18, 2024: Contact period

  • August 19 – September 12, 2024: Quiet period

  • September 13 – October 13, 2024: Contact period

  • October 14, 2024 – February 28, 2025: Quiet period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

    • Except: November 26 – December 1, 2024: Recruiting shutdown

    • Except: December 22–27, 2024: Recruiting shutdown

    • Except: January 2–5, 2025: Dead period

  • March 1 – July 31, 2025: Contact period

    • Except: May 26 – June 2, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 21–23, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: July 3–5, 2025: Dead period

Division I Men’s/Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–21, 2024: Evaluation period

  • August 22 – December 8, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

    • Except: November 23, 2024: Dead period

  • December 9, 2024 – January 1, 2025: Dead period

  • January 2 – July 31, 2025: Contact period

    • Except: March 14–15, 2025: Dead period

    • Except: June 11–14, 2025: Dead period

Division I Men’s Golf Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1 – November 27, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

  • November 28 – December 1, 2024: Dead period

  • December 2–22, 2024: Quiet period

    • During this time, a coach can evaluate a recruit at two events—a showcase and a combine—that are traditionally held in conjunction with the Golf Coaches Association of America National Convention.

    • Except: December 10–12, 2024 (12:01 am): Dead period; the NCAA explains that a dead period is in effect from the first official day of the Golf Coaches Association of America Convention until 12:01 am on the day after the convention ends.

  • December 23, 2024 – January 1, 2025: Dead period

  • January 2 – July 31, 2025: Contact period

Division I Men’s Lacrosse Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–5, 2024: Contact period

  • August 6–12, 2024: Quiet period

  • August 13–31, 2024: Dead period

  • September 1 – October 31, 2024: Contact period (no lacrosse evaluations are permitted)

  • November 1–24, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

  • November 25 – December 1, 2024: Dead period

  • December 2–23, 2024: Quiet period

    • Except: December 11–15, 2024

  • December 24, 2024 – January 5, 2025: Dead period

  • January 6–20, 2025: Contact period (no lacrosse evaluations are permitted)

  • January 21 – February 28, 2025: Quiet period

  • March 1 – May 22, 2025: Contact period

  • May 23–27 (noon), 2025: Dead period

  • May 27 (noon) – July 31, 2025: Contact period

    • Except: July 2–6, 2025: Dead period

Division I Women’s Lacrosse Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–14, 2024: Recruiting shutdown

  • August 15–27, 2024: Quiet period

  • August 28 – September 3, 2024: Dead period

  • September 4 – December 1, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: November 8–10, 15–17 and 22–24 (5 pm Friday–Sunday): Evaluation periods

    • Except: November 11–14 and 20–21: Dead periods

    • Except: November 26 – December 1, 2024: Recruiting shutdown

  • December 2–30, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: December 22–26, 2024: Recruiting shutdown

    • Except: December 31, 2024 – January 2, 2025: Recruiting shutdown

  • January 3 – May 22, 2025: Contact period

  • May 23–25, 2025: Dead period

    • During the Women’s Lacrosse Championship, coaches can evaluate athletes at one event, as long as it’s hosted within a 100-mile radius of the championship site. Coaches are not permitted to attend any evaluation event that occurs two hours before, during, or two hours after the semifinals competition and final game.

  • May 26 – June 12, 2025: Contact period

  • June 13 – July 31, 2025: Evaluation period

    • Except: July 2–6, 2025: Dead period

Division I Women’s Volleyball Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1–31, 2024: Quiet period

  • September 1 – November 30, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

  • December 1, 2024 – January 16, 2025: Quiet period

    • Except: During the AVCA annual awards banquet, college coaches can accidentally bump into two-year college athletes who’ve been awarded. But they are not allowed to have any conversations about recruiting at that time.

    • Except: December 19 – January 1, 2025: Coaching staff is permitted to evaluate recruits on one day only, starting the Thursday of the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Volleyball Championship through the Sunday immediately following the championship. The event they recruit at must be within a 30-mile radius of the championship site, and they cannot attend any events that take place at the same time as a collegiate game.

  • January 17 – July 31, 2025: Contact period (except the quiet period dates below)

    • March 3–6, 10–13, 17–20 and 24–27

    • March 31 – April 3

    • April 7–10

    • May 1 – June 5

Division I Women’s Beach Volleyball Recruiting Calendar

  • August 1 – December 1, 2024: Contact period

    • Except: November 11–14, 2024: Dead period

  • December 2–17, 2024: Evaluation period

  • December 18–31, 2024: Dead period

    • During the AVCA annual awards banquet, college coaches can accidentally bump into two-year college athletes who’ve been awarded. But they are not allowed to have any conversations about recruiting at that time.

  • January 1–17, 2025: Evaluation period

  • January 18 – April 29, 2025: Contact period

  • April 30 – May 4, 2025: Dead period

    • An institution’s authorized coaching staff members (see Bylaw 11.7.5) may evaluate on only one day and may attend only one event on that day during this period. Such an event shall occur within a 30-mile radius of the site of the championship. Coaches from the same institution who attend such an event shall attend the same event on the same day. Coaches shall not attend events that occur at the same time that any intercollegiate competition in conjunction with the NCAA championship occurs.

  • May 5–23, 2025: Evaluation period

  • May 24–July 31, 2025: Contact period

Division I Softball Recruiting Calendar

  • The NCAA restricts which camps and clinics college softball coaches and their staff members are allowed to work at. The rules state that coaches and their staff members can only work at events off their campus if they take place during periods where evaluations are permitted at non-scholastic practices or competitions. This is something that coaches know to comply with, so families generally don’t have to worry about it. However, when looking at attending events for exposure, keep the evaluation periods in the back of your mind, and avoid attending off-campus camps or clinics during evaluation periods where coaches can only attend scholastic practices and competitions.

  • August 1–11, 2024: Contact period

  • August 12 – November 24, 2024: Evaluation period for scholastic practice and competition activities only (except the dates below)

    • August 28 – September 3: Dead period

    • October 19–20, 26–27: Evaluation period

    • November 2–3, 9–10, 16–17, 23–24: Evaluation period

    • November 11–14: Dead period

  • November 25, 2024 – January 2, 2025: Quiet period (except the dates below)

    • November 27 – December 1: Recruiting shutdown

    • December 4–7: Dead period

    • December 22–26: Recruiting shutdown

    • December 31–January 2, 2025: Recruiting shutdown

  • January 3 – May 26, 2025: Evaluation period (only scholastic practice and competition activities)

  • May 27 – June 6, 2025: Dead period

  • June 7 – July 31, 2025: Contact period

    • Any high school regional and state championship competition that doesn’t occur during a dead period should be treated like an evaluation period.

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