TEAM USA Act

Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Institutions of higher education receive and benefit from Federal financial assistance primarily to provide educational opportunities for American students.

(2) Participation in intercollegiate athletics provides significant educational, financial, leadership, and career opportunities for student athletes.

(3) Increasing recruitment of international student athletes has reduced roster and scholarship opportunities for American student athletes at institutions receiving Federal financial assistance.

(4) This reduction has limited opportunities for American students to obtain athletic financial aid and the educational benefits associated with intercollegiate athletics.

(5) Intercollegiate athletics has historically served as an important development pathway for athletes representing the United States in Olympic and international competition, yet many National Collegiate Athletic Association-affiliated student athletes compete for nations other than the United States.

(6) Preserving the substantial majority of intercollegiate athletic opportunities for American student athletes while continuing to permit meaningful participation by international student athletes advances the educational purposes of the Higher Education Act of 1965.