Policies & Procedures

Eligible Participants

• Currently enrolled full-time University of Richmond students, faculty, and staff are eligible to compete in Intramural Sports activities.
• Players may play for one team per sport (Ex: Player cannot be on a Men’s Competitive and Open Competitive roster).

• Spouses, affiliates, and alumni are all ineligible to participate in Intramural Sports activities.

Sport Club Athletes

• Sport club members are defined as individuals whose name appears on sport club team roster during the academic year.
• Teams are restricted to two (2) sport club members on their related Intramural Sport team roster.

Varsity/Professional Athletes

• Professional Athletes are ineligible to compete in the sport in which they lost
  amateur standing. This also includes related sports, i.e., football/flag football.
  This rule is waived after five years.
• Any varsity intercollegiate athlete is ineligible to participate in that sport or
  related sport on any intramural basis for the school year in which they competed
  (Ex: A varsity athlete for Football is ineligible to participate in Flag Football).
• Related Sports:
  Soccer – Women’s Varsity Soccer players are ineligible.
  6 v 6 Soccer – Women’s Varsity Soccer players are ineligible.
  Flag Football – Varsity Football players are ineligible.
  Basketball – Men’s and Women’s Varsity Basketball players are ineligible.
  3 on 3 Basketball– Men’s and Women’s Varsity Basketball players are ineligible.
  Softball – Varsity Baseball players are ineligible.
  Tennis – Men’s and Women’s varsity players are ineligible.
  Golf – Men’s and Women’s Varsity Golfers are ineligible.

Unrecognized Organizations

• Unrecognized organizations are those that either (a) have not been formally recognized by the University, or (b) were previously recognized by University of Richmond, and lost that recognition as a result of a University and/or national organization conduct process. These organizations are ineligible to take part in intramural sports at the University of Richmond. For more details on
  unrecognized organizations, click here.

Eligibility Policies

• Any player who participates for more than one team in any given sport will become immediately ineligible for the remainder of the season for that sport.
• The IM staff and officials may determine if a player(s) is ineligible and stop the game.
• Teams allowing an ineligible player to participate will receive an automatic forfeit and must meet with the IM Manager to discuss further.
• Teams allowing an illegal player to participate will forfeit the remainder of that sport, possibly all upcoming IM activities, and must meet with the IM Manager. An illegal player is a participant that is not a current UR student, faculty or staff person.

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For any questions or concerns regarding IMLeagues, please reach out to the IM Manager (jacob.ballard@richmond.edu) or IM Staff (urecimstaff@gmail.com).

Each participant must complete the following steps to register for Intramural Sport activities:

Weinstein Center Portal Registration

• Login to the Weinstein Center Portal using your NetID and password.
• Once signed in the site will prompt you to select various recreation programs and you will select Intramurals.
• From this page, you can select to purchase the $20 dollar IM pass which allows eligible participants to play as many IM sports as they want throughout the academic year. There are also individual sport passes available for purchase for $5.

• Once payment is received, an account must be created through IMLeagues.
• From there, participants can create or join teams for the sport of their choosing.
• Participants creating teams will be considered team captains and will have additional responsibilities detailed in the roster section.

• Captains will pick a team name. Per University policy, independent teams may not use Greek letters in their team names. Team names that are insensitive or derogatory are not allowed.
• Captains will invite all team members to join the team.
• Captains will attend a captains meeting prior to the start of the regular season which will be detailed by the IM Manager.
• Captains will select team colors for their games each week.

• Any player that participates that is not on the Team Roster will be considered ineligible. That team will receive a forfeit.

• The Intramural Sports program is dedicated to promoting and enforcing positive sportsmanship among all participants. To encourage proper conduct during games, officials and Intramural Sports staff will make decisions to warn, penalize and/or eject players, coaches, teams, and/or spectators for poor sportsmanship. Please help us make each participant feel welcomed and safe during Intramural Sports.

• Online comments, pictures, postings, or anything deemed inappropriate by the IM staff are prohibited.
• There will be a zero-tolerance policy for anything that is demeaning, degrading, derogatory, or explicit in nature. This includes but is not limited to posted materials referring to topics such as race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, as well as social or political beliefs.

• A player who gets ejected from a contest may be asked by the Intramural Sports staff to leave the game site. Failure or refusal to leave the game site upon the staff’s request may result in forfeiture of the game for that player’s team.
• That player may be declared ineligible to participate in ALL Intramural Sports activities until they have met with the IM Manager. Depending on the severity and/or frequency of such occurrence The Intramural Sports staff member on site will address and document the incident.
• The Intramural Sports staff is allowed discretion to determine the specifics and severity of the ejection and subsequent action.

• At the completion of each game the Intramural Sports staff at the site will assign each team a Sportsmanship Rating on a scale of 0 to 4.0. Each team will start at 0 for each game and earn points. We are looking for specific examples of positive sportsmanship. This is an effort to create consistency and transparency in the ratings.
• The Sportsmanship Rating for each game will compile to an average that will dictate playoff eligibility and seeding at the end of the regular season.
  • A 3.0 average is required to make playoffs.
  • To remain in the playoffs, teams must earn at least a 3.0 rating for each game in the playoffs.

• The team captain is responsible for the actions of their team and spectators. Additionally, the captain is expected to ensure that all of their team members and spectators are familiar with the rules of play and the policies and procedures contained in this document.
• It is the team captain’s responsibility to view their team’s Sportsmanship Rating after each contest.

• No-show: Team does not meet the minimum player requirement at the scheduled game time. A no-show forfeit will result in a Sportsmanship Rating no higher than 2.0 for that contest.
• Eligibility: Game is declared a forfeit due to the eligibility of one or more players according to the eligibility requirements outlined by the eligibility policies An eligibility forfeit will result in a Sportsmanship Rating no higher than 2.5 for that contest.
• Sportsmanship: Game is ended by Intramural Sports staff for sportsmanship-related reasons. This includes but is not limited to maximum amount of player ejections and/or unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. The Intramural Sports staff will have the authority to reach this decision. A sportsmanship-related forfeit will result in Sportsmanship Rating of 0 for that contest.

All forfeits will result in a victory for the winning team with the score of 1-0 and an automatic deduction in sportsmanship for the forfeiting team.

• All protests must concern player eligibility, misinterpretation or misapplication of a playing rule or intramural regulation. A protest of a misinterpreted call must be made to the official at the time of the call, or it will not be recognized.
• Player eligibility protests should be made to the IM staff or official either before or during the game. Players’ names should be furnished to the IM staff or official to enable the staff to make a roster check.
• All protests must be completed within 24 hours of the start of the protested game.
• No protest based on the questioning of a judgment call of an official will be considered.

An individual who displays un-sportsman like conduct or verbal abuse toward officials, University Recreation employees, or fellow participants will be ejected from the game and will not be eligible to return to play until they have met with the IM Manager and completed the Pathway to Play process.

All parties involved will meet with the IM Manager and/or Assistant Director of Sports and complete the Pathway to Play form/process. This process may include one or more of the following:

• Shadowing an IM staff member.
• Writing an apology letter to affected party.
• Attending a confidential counseling session.
• Apology at IM staff meeting.
• Suspension of minimum of one (1) game.

• All teams that average a Sportsmanship score of 3.0 or higher are eligible for the playoffs.
• Brackets will be created for each sport and division (Ex: Outdoor Soccer will have a bracket for each of the following Men’s Competitive/Fraternity, Open Competitive, and Women’s/Sorority).

• Playoff rosters lock at the end of the last day of the regular season. No participants can be added to any roster after that deadline.
• For participants to be eligible for the playoffs, each participant must have played in at least one (1) regular season game.

• Win/Loss Record
• Sportsmanship Rating Average
• Head-to-Head
• Point Differential

• The online playoff draw will occur on IM Leagues after the conclusion of the regular season. Information regarding teams’ bracket selection periods will be communicated to team captains via email following the conclusion of the regular season.
• If a team does not select its spot in the playoff bracket during its designated time, that team will be placed in an open spot in the bracket after all remaining selections have occurred.
• All playoffs are single elimination tournaments. The brackets will vary depending on the number of teams eligible for the playoffs.

• T-shirts will be handed out the day of the Championship game or sometime the following week.
• Each team will receive the number of shirts equivalent to twice the maximum amount of players that can be on the field/court at one time in that sport (Ex: 5v5 basketball champ winners would receive 10 shirts).