D-III Signing Forms Approved

September, 2015

LaxPower reports that the Division III Recruiting Working Group passed a measure that allows D-III athletes to sign a celebratory "nonbinding athletics celebratory signing form."  While not a contract, the forms will allow students to participate in a signing ceremony much like D-I players can.  Students must be admitted to the school, and are not committing to attending the school by signing the document, but they'll now have an opportunity for a keepsake and photo-op to remember things by.

In the past, only D-I athletes who would be receiving athletically related aid would sign a National Letter of Intent (NLI), which was a commitment to attend and play that school.  As LaxPower notes, one is left to ask what D-I and D-II players who don't get athletic financial aid (and don't sign a NLI) get?