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PHOENIX — In the world of sports, kids as young as high school can be paid money by using their “name, image and likeness” or NIL. Athletes can be paid by companies or brands by using their own name and image for marketing. It’s a growing trend in the college world for the last few years, and now among younger student-athletes in high school, too.
Bella Vista Prep Director Matt Gordon said they have about 100 students at their school that has specialties.Gordon said that there’s a business side to the game, at least for the high schoolers now, too. As its own private school, Bella Vista Prep has its own rules and curriculum for its students, trying to help prepare students to go to college and play basketball if that’s what they want to go for.Email us: share@abc15.comOn the other hand, the Arizona Interscholastic Association oversees sports for several hundred public high schools, charter and some private schools. The AIA recently had its handbook updated and changed the wording for NIL deals.
He says as more of this continues to happen, he hopes that students and their families know what they’re getting into as contracts are involved.
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