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The New York State Public High School Athletic Association held its quarterly executive committee meeting on Wednesday and approved revisions to the organization’s amateur rule. High school athletes can now benefit from name, image and likeness in certain situations.

By receiving money, compensation, endorsements or money from NIL, students forfeit amateur status and their ability to play on any team affiliated with NYSPHSAA. High school athletes can still play on teams unaffiliated with NYSPHSAA.

The revised amateur rule follows the NCAA’s ruling on NIL, which permitted college athletes to be compensated through any endorsement or business deal. The executive committee ruled that students can only benefit from NIL if they do not not participate in any NYSPHSAA events. Endorsed students are also restricted from appearing in a school’s uniform or any NYSPHSAA marks or logos as a part of any endorsement.

The ruling affects each of the association’s 787 member schools and will go into effect next fall. 

Proposals for changes to several sports were also approved. This included a boys and girls tennis NYSPHSAA championship tournament with at-large selections rather than byes and draws starting this year. The girls’ team tennis regional rotation proposal was approved for 2021-26 and the boys team tennis regional rotation proposal was approved for 2022-27. Boys and girls volleyball were also granted regional rotations from 2022-24 and 2022-25, respectively.

The NYSPHSAA Executive Committee will meet next on Feb. 2 at its quarterly meeting in Saratoga Springs.

Published on October 20, 2021 at 7:19 pm

Contact Alex: ahcirino@syr.edu