Intercollegiate Student Athletics Procedure

Surry Community College has a well-established objective, led by the Board of Trustees, of providing well-managed athletic programs for the benefit of student-athletes.

Student Self-Development

The College will strive to provide athletic programs as an integral part of the college’s student development mission. The program will afford students an opportunity for a well-rounded collegiate experience and provide the following:

1. An excitement to the overall student life experience.
2. The development of team skills, individual skills, and sportsmanship.
3. An incentive for students to graduate and transfer to senior higher education institutions. Surry Community College, as a comprehensive community college, will strive to provide a dynamic environment which promotes academic achievement, competitiveness, character, and self-discipline.

Enrollment and Retention

Surry Community College will work to establish an athletic program that is an attractive option for students who want to participate in intercollegiate athletics. Further, coaches and other college personnel will work to improve student retention with the following strategies:

1. Provide for more student engagement through the close association that student-athletes have with Student Services personnel and the coaching staff.
2. Require student-athletes to follow National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) standards as related to class attendance, academic standards, sportsmanship and student conduct
3. Stress the opportunity for student-athletes to continue academics and athletics at a four-year college or university.

New Programs & Funding Support

Students may contact the Athletic Director to begin the process of creating a new athletic program. New programs may be started as club teams. If significant long- term interest and adequate support can be identified, NJCAA teams will be sponsored. All teams will be financed with student activity funds, monies raised by the participants, or donor funds. No student activity funds will be used for administrative expenses or athletic scholarships. Athletic scholarships may be funded by private donors through the Knights’ Athletic Club or the SCC Foundation as well as unrestricted institutional funds. Final decisions on the selection of scholarship recipients shall be made jointly by the Director of Financial Aid and the Athletic Director.

Surry Community College sponsors all athletic programs without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, gender, veterans’ status, or disability. Moreover, the college will operate all athletic programs in accordance with NJCAA bylaws.

Approved by the Athletic Council on July 24, 2007
Approved by the President’s Cabinet on August 6, 2007
Approved by the Board of Trustees on August 8, 2007
Amended November 13, 2023

Intercollegiate Sports

Aims and Objectives

The intercollegiate athletic program is that part of the physical education program which provides an opportunity for further participation of students desiring additional physical activity beyond that which is provided in the physical education classes and the intramural program.

1. Surry Community College offers a sufficient variety of sports needed to meet the needs of the student body. No one sport will be overemphasized, as each activity will be given equal supervision and adequate time will be allotted for the proper training and conditioning.
2. Objectives for the athletic program include the following:
   1. Development of fundamental skills in athletic activities for immediate educational purposes–physical, mental, and social.
   2. Development of useful and desirable skills in activities suitable for vocational interests and for leisure time.
   3. Development of essential safety skills and ability to handle one’s body skillfully in various sports.
   4. Development of powers of observation, analysis, judgment, and decision through the medium of complex physical situations.
   5. Development of power of self-confidence and poise (physical and mental) through mastery of difficult physical, mental, and social problems in supervised activities.
   6. Development of leadership capacity.
   7. Development of individual acceptance of the responsibilities as well as the privileges of team play.
   8. Opportunity to widen a circle of friends through acquaintance with members of opposing teams as well as those on the home team.
3. Approved Sports Programs
   1. Cross country, soccer, basketball, wrestling, golf, tennis, track, baseball, volleyball, and softball.
4. The Athletic Council will make policy recommendations to the President. The Committee will be formed from members of the administration, faculty, and student body.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on December 11, 1967
Amended by the Board of Trustees June 1978
Amended November 13, 2023