Requirements

1. AIA Requirements

All participants in interscholastic activities must be in compliance with all student eligibility rules; namely, Enrollment, Attendance, Domicile, Transfer, Recruiting, Academic and Scholarship, Age Limit/Birth Record, Physical Examination, Parent or Legal Guardian Consent, Student Insurance, Amateur Standing, Clinics/Summer Camps, Competition on School Team Sports Only, and Try Outs.

2. Academic and Scholarship Rule

A student must be enrolled in at least five credit classes and have received passing grades in all credit-earning courses. Seniors who are on track to graduate may enroll in fewer classes and still be eligible. Grading periods and eligibility periods will be nine weeks in length. Grades of F, Audit, and Incomplete are considered non-passing grades and will render a student ineligible if received. Eligibility may be regained at progress report time if there are no failing grades on the progress report. A student may not become ineligible due to grades earned on a progress report.

3. Birth Certificates - Age Limit

If a student becomes 19 years of age after September 1, he/she is eligible to compete for the remainder of the school year. If he/she becomes 19 years of age on or before September 1, he/she is not eligible for any part of that school year. A birth certificate must be on file in the athletics office for all sports and AIA-sanctioned programs.

4. Domicile Rule

A student is privileged with eligibility for interscholastic competition only at the school in the district in which his/her parents are domiciled. In multi-school districts, the student is eligible only at the school in the attendance zone in which his/her parents are domiciled. If you have questions, please contact the athletic director for information.

5. Competition on School Team Sports Only

A student who is a member of a school team shall not practice or compete with any other group, club, organization, association, etc., in that sport during the interscholastic season of competition. For purposes of this rule, the interscholastic season of competition shall begin with the first regularly scheduled practice and conclude with that particular team's final game. Any student violating the above rule shall forfeit his/her eligibility for a minimum of the balance of the season for that sport or up to a maximum of one calendar year.

6. Eight Semesters Eligibility Rule

A student is privileged with eligibility for only four seasons in each sport and/or activity and for no more than eight semesters of eligibility after he/she first enrolls in the ninth grade. The 7th and 8th semesters must be consecutive. The other semesters of eligibility need not be consecutive.

7. Participation in Athletics and PE

Parents are responsible to inform the school/coaching staff of any student illness or injury that may have an impact on the student's health and safety during participation in physical education and athletic programs.

8. Physicals

Students must complete a physical examination by an M.D., D.O., N.P., or P.A. and have the results on file before being issued equipment and beginning practice.

PARTICIPATION IN ANY A.I.A. SANCTIONED ACTIVITIES SUCH AS BAND, ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, FORENSICS, CHEER, ROTC, and STUDENT COUNCIL REQUIRES COMPLIANCE WITH ALL OR PART OF THESE RULES. SEE THE ADVISOR FOR DETAILS.