GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION - DeKalb County Schools

46 GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
INTERPRETATION: The Summer activity is unrestricted as long as the students’ participation is voluntary. After
the GHSA school year begins in the Fall, the following conditions must be met:
(a) If the students are in the school where the teacher coaches, no more than two can meet with the coach
in skill-building drills at any point in time out of season.
(b) If the student is from a school other than the one at which the teacher coaches, the student must voluntarily
attend any instruction session or competition with the Summer activity without any direct or indirect
influence from the school the student attends.
(c) If any student transfers to the school where the teacher coaches, it would be prima facie evidence of undue
influence and penalties could result. NOTE: This interpretation also applies to Community Coaches.
• SITUATION: May a basketball team have a scrimmage game against a team of the alumni or of the faculty of
that school for fund-raising purposes
INTERPRETATION: No, all participants in a practice must be eligible students currently enrolled in the school.
This would be a violation in-season or out-of-season.
• SITUATION: May a school soccer team scrimmage a local recreation soccer team
INTERPRETATION: No, all participants in a practice must be eligible students currently enrolled in the school.
Interscholastic scrimmages are allowed in certain sports as long as both teams are properly sanctioned high
school teams.
• SITUATION: At an invitational golf tournament, the host school ends its school day at 3:15 p.m. Other schools
participating end their school days at times ranging from 2:30 to 3:45. What is the earliest this tournament may
begin
INTERPRETATION: 3:15 – The GHSA rule is that regular season competitions may not begin before school
is out for the host school.
• SITUATION: A school has a teacher’s workday on a Friday, and the students are not in school. May the school
host a golf tournament that begins at 10:00am that day
RULING: Yes. The golf tournament may be scheduled at that time, and any schools that are also not in session
that day may participate. If a team’s school is in session, they may not participate until the normal dismissal
time of the host school.
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• SITUATION: A baseball coach is ejected on Friday, and sits out the next scheduled game on Monday. The
Monday game is called because of rain in the third inning. Does this game satisfy the “sit-out rule”
INTERPRETATION: No, since the game was called before it was considered a completed game, the coach
may not count it as a sit-out game.
• SITUATION: A school has several players and most of its substitutes on its baseball team ejected for a fighting
incident. At the time of the next scheduled game, the school does not have enough players to field a team, and
they forfeit to their opponent. Does this satisfy one game of the sit-out rule
INTERPRETATION: Yes. The acceptance of a loss in a forfeiture is equated to playing a game to its completion.
• SITUTATION: A football coach, who works with both the junior varsity and the varsity squads, is ejected from
a JV game on Thursday afternoon. What are the conditions for his “sit-out” game
INTERPRETATION: The coach must sit out the next game at the level at which he was ejected and any games
in between. In this case, the coach could not coach at the varsity game on Friday nor at the next scheduled
JV game.