UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND
CAMPUS RECREATION SERVICES

Intramural Eligibility

Eligibility - Individuals:
Participants must be currently enrolled as a student at UM, or employed as a faculty/staff member at UM. Participatns must present proper identification prior to signing up for an activity and also prior to the beginning of each and every contest. If a player does not have the necessary identification materials, s/he will be ineligible to participate in that contest. Requisite identification for eligible user groups is:
UM Students: a university photo ID.
UM Faculty/Staff: a photo ID and a current faculty/staff card, or the Faculty/Staff Photo ID Card.
NOTE: Intramural Supervisors have the right to reexamine any participant's IDs. If someone is caught using an ID card that is not his/her own, it may be confiscated by the Intramural Supervisor. FYI: This is a violation of the University of Maryland Code of Student Conduct and can be sent to the Judicial Board.
Eligibility - Other Rules:
  1. Participants may play for a maximum of two teams (one being coed) in any team sport. G/F/S leagues are considered to be Open (not coed).
  2. Individuals who are members of an officially recognized UMCP sport club may participate in their related sport; however, a maximum of two club members can participate on any one team during the season. For Intramural purposes, a sport club athlete is anyone who is paying club dues or who competes with the team in any club competition.
  3. Current Intercollegiate Athletes and "red shirts" are not eligible to compete in their intercollegiate sport or related sport. A "red shirt" is defined as a varsity athlete who is sitting out a year. Determination of this status is made by the coach of each intercollegiate sport.
  4. To compete in playoff games, a team member must have participated in a minimum of one regular season game with the team. If the team has a game rained out, players can be added at the first playoff game only.
  5. A player is bound to the FIRST team for which s/he plays; players may not switch teams during the season. In cases where players participate for multiple teams, BOTH teams will be eliminated from further competition and assessed the forfeit fee.
  6. In G/F/S Leagues, participants must be faculty/staff members, or currently enrolled graduate students or undergraduate students who work for a department for wages or academic credit. At no time may more than 50% of the team roster be made up of undergraduate students.
  7. Current or former professional or semi-professional athletes are ineligible to participate in their respective sport or associate sports (Example: Baseball's associate sport would be softball).