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Wrestling — Any activity in which participants engage in or simulate set-ups, takedowns, reversals, throws, escapes, riding or nearfalls.
Sport season — As used in relation to the age limitation for eligibility, that period of time between the dates specified in the Sections of By- law 5.000 during which member schools may organize their teams, practice or participate in interscholastic competition in any given sport. (By-law 3.060)
Student — A boy or girl who has formally registered and begun to attend classes at a high school.
Student-athlete — A student who has participated in one or more practices and/or athletic contests in any sport offered by or under the auspices of a high school.
Student-Athlete with a disability — A person with a disability is one who has a record of, or is regarded as having, a substantial, as opposed to a minor, physical or mental impairment. A substantial impairment is one that significantly limits or restricts a major life activity such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself, learning or working.
Team activity — Anything done by the team or its members together to plan for, prepare for, travel to, compete in or evaluate after the completion of non-school competition.
Thirty Mile Radius — A straight line measurement between a student’s home and the private or non-boundaried school the student plans to attend.
Tournament — A competition involving three or more schools in which teams and/or athletes compete under an elimination and/or round robin format within a 10 consecutive week day period which results in a single winner of the competition and or event(s). No regular season tournament shall allow for a member school to participate in more than five (5) games/contests/matches. IHSA By-law 5.004 provides an exception for wrestling tournaments, and baseball/softball tournaments when schools are on spring break.
Transfer Student — Any student who attended another high school prior to coming to your school whether or not he/she begins attending on the first day of the school term. This also includes home schooled students who were taking high school work and then transfer to a member school. Home schools are considered to be non-boundaried schools.
Tryout — An organized occasion on which one is considered for selection to a team in a sport by undergoing evaluation of the ability, skill or potential to play the sport.
Undue influence — Any influence exerted by school personnel upon a prospective student or a prospective student’s family related to athletic participation, potential or accomplishment.
Week No. 1 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar — The IHSA Standardized Calendar utilizes the first full seven day week of July that begins on Sunday as Week No. 1.
CONSTITUTION
The following Constitution has been adopted by the membership of the Illinois High School Association and is applicable to the current school term.
1.000 CONSTITUTION
Included in this Section:
1.000 Constitution
1.100 Name and Objectives
1.200 Membership
1.300 Board of Directors
1.400 Powers and Duties of Board 1.500 Officers
1.600 Dues and Assessments 1.700 Legislative Commission 1.800 Meetings of the Association 1.900 Amendments
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