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3.060 AGE
120.2) Q. After a student qualifies for advancement in the state series in a sport where he/she may compete as an individual, may that student practice against similar qualifiers from other schools in preparation for further state series competition?
A. No. (By-law 5.000 and its sub-sections)
3.061 A student shall be eligible through age nineteen (19) unless the student shall become twenty (20) during a sport season, in which event eligibility shall terminate on the first day of such season (as the season is defined in Section 5.000 of these By-laws).
3.070 RECRUITING OF ATHLETES
In the enforcement of the rule, member schools shall be responsible for any violation committed by any person associated with the school, including principals, assistant principals, coaches, teachers, any other staff members or students, or any organization having any connection to the school.
3.071 Recruitment of students or attempted recruitment of students for athletic purposes is prohibited, regardless of their residence.
3.072 It shall be a violation of this rule for any student athlete to receive or be offered any remunerations of any kind or to receive or be offered any special inducement of any kind which is not made available to all applicants who enroll in the school or apply to the school.
Special inducement shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) Offer or acceptance of money or other valuable consideration such as free or reduced tuition during the regular year or summer school by anyone connected with the school. (Exception – private schools may waive tuition for children of faculty members, as a benefit of employment, provided there is no undue influence exerted upon the student or the family to attend the school.)
(2) Offer or acceptance of room, board or clothing or financial allotment for clothing.
(3) Offer or acceptance of pay for work that is not performed or that is in excess of the amount regularly paid for such
service.
(4) Offer or acceptance of free transportation by any school connected person.
(5) Offer or acceptance of a residence with any school connected person.
(6) Offer or acceptance of any privilege not afforded to non-athletes.
(7) Offer or acceptance of free or reduced rent for parents.
(8) Offer or acceptance of payment of moving expenses of parents or assistance with the moving of parents.
(9) Offer or acceptance of employment of parent(s) in order to entice the family to move to a certain community if
someone connected with the school makes the offer.
(10) Offer or acceptance of help in securing a college athletic scholarship.
3.073 It shall also be a violation of this rule to induce or attempt to induce or encourage any prospective student to attend any member school for the purpose of participating in athletics even when special remuneration or inducement is not given.
Schools are not prohibited from conducting academic recruitment programs, programs which may include information concerning the school’s extracurricular offerings. However, such recruitment programs must be designed to provide an overview of the academic and extracurricular programs offered by a school and are not to be used as a subterfuge for recruiting students for athletic purposes. Such general recruitment programs permissible under this rule shall be carried out under the following guidelines:
• With the exception of an open house conducted at a member school, no member of a school’s coaching staff may present or distribute the school’s information to students not yet in high school unless they are representing all phases of the entire high school program at official junior high functions such as high school nights, fairs, days or visits.
• Any information presented or distributed shall be limited to the academic and extracurricular offerings provided by the school. The information may include a description of the athletic facilities available at the school.
• Any information presented or distributed shall not imply, in any manner, that the member school’s athletic program is better or more accomplished than any other member school’s athletic program.
• Any information presented or distributed shall not imply, in any manner, that it would be more advantageous for a prospective student athlete to attend a member school over any other school because of its extracurricular programs.
• Information may be presented or distributed only at an open house conducted at a member school or at a school housing grades below the ninth from which the member school can normally expect enrollment.
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