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Pick your sport and graduation year. We'll show you the exact date NCAA rules allow D1 and D2 coaches to initiate contact with your athlete. Athletes can email D1 coaches any time. What the rules control is when coaches can reply or reach out first.

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Graduation year

Gender

Basketball and wrestling have separate men's / women's bylaws. Without this we publish neither date.

D1 contact window

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June 15, 2026

open now: 130 days in

D1 coaches can email, call, and text Class of 2028 athletes now. This window opened June 15, 2026.

Source: NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.1.1.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.1.1.1 (LSDBi: NCAA live legislative database, read 2026-08-01; 13.1 as amended by Proposal 2018-93; per-sport rows corroborated against the NCAA D1 Recruiting Guide contact grid): All Other Sports row of the contact grid

D2 contact window

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June 15, 2026

open now: 130 days in

D2 coaches can email, call, and text Class of 2028 athletes now. This window opened June 15, 2026.

Source: NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.1.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.1.1 (LSDBi: NCAA live legislative database, read 2026-08-01): one contact date for every D2 sport, no sport-specific exceptions.

Unlike D1, Division II uses a single contact date for every sport: June 15 immediately preceding junior year. There are no sport-specific exceptions in D2.

Source: NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.1.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.1.1 (LSDBi: NCAA live legislative database, read 2026-08-01)

D1 first official visit

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August 1, 2026

open now (83 days in)

D1 programs may host Class of 2028 athletes on an expense-paid (official) visit. This window opened August 1, 2026.

Source: NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.6.2.1.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.6.2.1.1 (2026-27 Division I Manual, consolidated text via LSDBi bylaws report 90008, read 2026-08-01; RENUMBERED in this edition: men's lacrosse inserted as .3, so .1 general / .2 baseball and women's lacrosse / .3 men's lacrosse / .4 softball / .5 men's basketball / .6 women's basketball / .7 football / .8 men's wrestling. Dates unchanged except the new men's-lacrosse rule (Wednesday after Labor Day, 7 a.m.) and the 12 p.m. Eastern time stamp on women's lacrosse)

D3 coaches can email, call and text any time. In-person contact away from campus waits until after sophomore year. NAIA has few contact restrictions. Athletes should reach out proactively.

How many times a D2 soccer coach may contact you

A "contact" is not what most families assume, and that misreading is usually what makes a recruiting timeline feel quieter than it is.

A contact is a face-to-face encounter beyond an exchange of greetings: including a coach positioning themselves where contact is possible. The definition is the same as D1's.
An evaluation is any off-campus activity assessing academic or athletic qualifications, including a visit to your school or watching you compete.
Nothing here is being counted against a ceiling, so the distinction matters for a different reason than in D1: it tells you a coach may already have watched you several times without ever being required to speak to you.

D2 does not ration recruiting at all. Where D1 rations contacts, D2 sets ONE date and then stops counting.

There is no annual limit on in-person off-campus contacts or evaluations in D2. Once a coach may contact you: June 15 before your junior year: a D2 coach may contact you, watch you, and call you as often as they choose. Communication is permitted at any time.

Contact is barred at your competition site on a day you compete, until your competition is over and your coach has released you: this applies in every D2 sport, not just a named few. In-person contacts and evaluations also stop during the signing-date dead period. NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.4.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.4.1 (2025-26 Division II Manual (8/30/25), read 2026-08-01; 13.1.4.1 day-of-competition restriction; .1.1 campus exception; .1.2 post-commitment exception)

D2 sets no per-sport cap on how many coaches may recruit off campus. Recruiting must be done by authorized athletics staff who have passed the annual recruiting-rules certification, and boosters may not make off-campus contact. NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.2.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.2.1 (2025-26 Division II Manual (8/30/25), read 2026-08-01; 13.1.2.1 authorized staff only; 13.1.2.1.1 annual certification per 11.6.1.1; Article 11 carries no 11.7-style per-sport coach limit in D2)

Source: NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1 (2025-26 Division II Manual (8/30/25), read 2026-08-01; 13.1 subsections run .1 contactable / .2 permissible recruiters / .3 communication / .4 site restrictions / .5 banquets: there is no D1-style 13.1.5 opportunity limit; corroborated by the 2025-26 NCAA Division II Coaches Off-Campus Recruiting Guide) NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1 (2025-26 Division II Manual (8/30/25), read 2026-08-01; 13.1 subsections run .1 contactable / .2 permissible recruiters / .3 communication / .4 site restrictions / .5 banquets: there is no D1-style 13.1.5 opportunity limit; corroborated by the 2025-26 NCAA Division II Coaches Off-Campus Recruiting Guide) NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.4.1 (2025-26 Division II Manual (8/30/25), read 2026-08-01; 13.1.4.1 day-of-competition restriction; .1.1 campus exception; .1.2 post-commitment exception) NCAA D2 Bylaw 13.1.2.1 (2025-26 Division II Manual (8/30/25), read 2026-08-01; 13.1.2.1 authorized staff only; 13.1.2.1.1 annual certification per 11.6.1.1; Article 11 carries no 11.7-style per-sport coach limit in D2)

In D2, silence is not a budget. There is no ceiling for a coach to run out of, which cuts both ways: a coach who has not contacted you was not prevented from doing so, and a coach may also have evaluated you more than once without ever being required to speak to you. We can't tell you which of those you are looking at.

We show the rule, not a tally. We can only see what your family logs here, so we will never tell you how many contacts a coach has actually used. That number is not visible to us and never will be.

Signing a written offer of athletics aid: Class of 2028

The NCAA hasn't published signing dates for the Class of 2028 yet, so we don't show any.

Checked against: "2025-26 NCAA SIGNING DATES" grid (ncaa.org) · read Aug 1, 2026

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"2025-26 NCAA SIGNING DATES" grid (ncaa.org), read 2026-08-01; the grid itself is the published dates; the defining bylaw was RENUMBERED from 13.02.10 to 13.02.13 in the 2026-27 Division I Manual (LSDBi report 90008, re-read 2026-08-01) with no change to the formula. NLI program eliminated by D1 Council Proposal No. 2024-55, 2024-10-09; the grid covers the Class of 2026 only: published under the NCAA 2026-27 compliance folder Finding, not an omission. NCAA schools now sign recruits with an athletics aid agreement (D1 Council Proposal No. 2024-55 on 2024-10-09). The first signing date for most sports is the second Wednesday in November of senior year. Football and basketball have their own windows. The only signing grid the NCAA currently publishes is titled "2025-26 NCAA SIGNING DATES" (found under the 2026-27 compliance folder; the URL year is the folder, not the coverage), and it covers the Class of 2026 only. As of 2026-08-01 no primary source publishes a grid for the Class of 2028. Dates for your class would be our extrapolation of the formula, so we publish none. Check with your compliance office, or the NCAA grid for your senior year once it is released.

NCAA schools now sign recruits with an athletics aid agreement. The first signing date for most sports is the second Wednesday in November of senior year. Football and basketball have their own windows.

Other NCAA milestones: Class of 2028

Evaluation, quiet, and dead periods relevant to this class year. Contact-window and first-official-visit dates are rendered as rule-computed cards above (NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.6.2.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.6.2.1 (2026-27 Division I Manual, consolidated text via LSDBi bylaws report 90008, read 2026-08-01; RENUMBERED in this edition: men's lacrosse inserted as .3, so .1 general / .2 baseball and women's lacrosse / .3 men's lacrosse / .4 softball / .5 men's basketball / .6 women's basketball / .7 football / .8 men's wrestling. Dates unchanged except the new men's-lacrosse rule (Wednesday after Labor Day, 7 a.m.) and the 12 p.m. Eastern time stamp on women's lacrosse)

), and signing dates come from the NCAA signing-date grid, also above. Nothing in this list is a contact, official-visit, or signing date.

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Compliance rules change. Contact-window and first-official-visit cards are computed from the current published bylaw text (NCAA D1 Bylaw 13.6.2.1 · read Aug 1, 2026

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). When we hold a citable official-visit date for your sport, the D1 first official visit card above shows it: including football (April 1 of junior year) and other sports with published 13.6.2.1 dates. D1 basketball contact-window dates stay withheld until we hold a citable primary reading. See defer notes on those cards when they apply. Evaluation, quiet, and dead periods come from the published NCAA recruiting calendar where the current year's version is available; where a 2026-27 sport-specific calendar has not yet been published, we say so rather than serve last year's dates as current. Always confirm specific dates with your school's compliance office or ncaa.org before you act on them. Schools sign an athletics aid agreement. No event, camp, program, or recruiting service pays for placement in any Prospecta tool or report, including this one.