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Participant Information

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Captain's Information

All participants must read the liability statement below. A captain must pass this information on to his/her team.

Participation in the Intramural Sports program is voluntary. The University of Wisconsin-Stout is not responsible for injuries incurred while participating in activities or using equipment and facilities provided by our department. Each participant should carry his/her own health and accident insurance. By participating in intramural activity, participants are accepting this statement. If they do not accept the statement they should not participate in our program.

Rules are available if you need a copy, remember you are responsible to know the rules and pass them on to your team.

During league play all players must show up early and present their valid UW-Stout ID to the Intramural Staff. If enough players are not present by game time your contest will be forfeited and your team will pay the consequence.

First Forfeit: Team must pay a $10 forfeit fee to the University Recreation Office before their next scheduled game or their team is dropped from the league!

Second Forfeit: Team automatically dropped from the league!

League schedules will be posted on the Intramural Sports bulletin boards in the lower level of Sports & Fitness Center. These schedules will also be posted on the internet. You can access them through the Intramural Sports homepage.

Sportsmanship and Eligibility of all Participants

  1. A student who is registered for classes at UW-Stout, faculty/staff and their spouses are allowed to compete in the Intramural Sports program.
  2. Individuals will play for only one men's, one women's, and one coed team in a given sport per block.
  3. A player is considered a legal member of an intramural sports team for which he/she first plays. A player must be deleted off one team before he/she is legal to be added to another.
  4. A maximum of two current club members are allowed to play on one intramural sports team in their respective sport.
  5. A varsity athlete must sit out one full semester before they are eligible to participate in their respective sport.
  6. Red-shirt varsity athletes that are practicing with their respective teams are not eligible to compete in their respective sport in the intramural sports program until they have sat out one full semester.
  7. A red-shirt athlete that gets cut from the varsity team may play in their respective sport, as long as they do not continue to practice with the varsity team. (For men's basketball, they must play in the A division).
  8. A player whose intramural sports team has been eliminated from further competition for any reason is ineligible to participate for another Intramural Sports team. If, however, a team drops before its first scheduled game or forfeits its first game then drops out of competition, the players on that team may participate for another team if they are added to the roster properly.
  9. Any player who is found ineligible in the above clauses may cause his/her team to forfeit each intramural sports game in which he/she participates illegally.
  10. A player who misrepresents him/herself may be declared to have been ineligible to participate in that game. The team involved will forfeit the game and the player will be banned from further competition in that respective sport for the remainder of that block. If a member of the team knowingly permitted such representation, the entire team shall face expulsion from that intramural sport for the remainder of that block.

For more information regarding Intramural Sports, contact Intramural Sports.

Free Agents

Free Agents are individuals looking to get a team together or join a team. Teams - The names of all free agents who have signed-up will be available at the informational meeting for that sport or contact Intramural Sports.

Ways to Play as a Free Agent

If you are interested in playing in a sport, you must register as a free agent. To register as a free agent, you will need to complete a Team Registration Form. On the line where it asks for a team name, you will write "Free Agent." Free Agents should attend the captain's meeting for the sport they are interested in playing so that teams still looking for players can find you.

Intramural Sports does not guarantee that you will be able to play if you sign up as a free agent. We will try our best to place you on a team. This sign up is a means to make a list of interested players - so that you can get a team together.

 

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