TEAM ENROLLMENT AND TEAM MEMBERSHIP
127-2-3. Enrollment and Team Membership.
3.1 To be eligible for participation in interscholastic
athletics, a student must be enrolled in a member school on or before the eleventh
instructional day of the school year. Enrollment must be continuous after the student has
officially enrolled in the school.
3.2 Students can
participate only in schools in which they are enrolled; however, an exception may be
granted by the Board of Appeals as follows:
(a) if a feeder school does not afford students the opportunity to
participate and they are otherwise eligible.
(b) an exception would be granted for students from the
WV Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to participate at Hampshire High School or Romney
Middle School (only in sports not available at WVSD&B).
(c) if member schools containing grades 6 and/or 7 and/or 8 and/or 9
may combine students from two or more schools within the county to form one
interscholastic team in a sport. Requests for permission to combine students from two or
more schools in the same non-public or public school system must be submitted annually to
the WVSSAC in writing by the superintendent of the non-public or public school system.
Schools which are combining to form one team must be feeder schools for the same high
school and at least one school does not have sufficient numbers for a team. If more than
two schools are involved, principals are to evaluate the number of available participants
in each school and shall combine schools to provide as many teams that sufficient numbers
will allow. Sufficient numbers will be defined as the number of a starting line-up plus
50% (for odd number line-ups, round up).
3.3 An ineligible student may practice 15 days
prior to his date of becoming eligible provided that he is otherwise eligible. This rule
applies only to an academically ineligible student or a student who falls under Transfer
Rules 127-2-7.15, 127-2-7.16, 127-2-7.20, and Adoption Guardianship Rule 127-2-8.8.
3.4 Students enrolled in the following grades in member
schools may be eligible for junior high participation:
Junior High Schools
High Schools
Grades 7 and 8
7, 8 and 9 (six year school)
Grades 7, 8 and 9
8 and 9 (five year school)
Grades 8 and 9
9 (four year school)
Middle School
6, 7, 8 (3-year or 4-year school)
Sixth grade students will be eligible to participate in
interscholastic sport teams except football in the middle school in which they are
enrolled.
3.5 Students enrolled in the ninth grade of
four, five or six year high school may participate on the high school team; Also, ninth
graders of a feeder school may participate on their high school team if granted permission
by the county or governing body of a private parochial board of education and the school
principals involved. However, once a student becomes a member of that team said student
will be ineligible for the junior high team in that sport.
3.6 Students who are enrolled in a grade below the ninth
are not eligible for a high school team, and students enrolled in a grade below the
seventh will not be eligible for a junior high team.
3.7 Senior students will be eligible for spring sports
until the close of the school's season.
3.8 Schools may sponsor separate teams for members of
each sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill. If a school
sponsors a team in a particular sport for members of one sex but sponsors no such team for
members of the other sex, and athletic opportunities for members of that sex previously
have been limited, members of the excluded sex must be allowed to try out for the team
offered. For example, because overall athletic opportunities for females have previously
been limited, females will be allowed to try out for baseball, but males will not be
allowed to try out for volleyball or softball.
3.9 Allow students enrolled at WV School for the Deaf to
participate in sports at the WV School for the Blind.
Reciprocal being students from the WV School for the Blind to also participate in sports
at the WV School for the Deaf. This adoption would not be honored for the respective
tournaments of the EDSAA (Eastern Schools for Deaf Athletic Association) and the EAAB
(Eastern Athletic Association of the Blind.) |
