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5.360 SCHOLASTIC BOWL
5.361
Season Limitation
Contest Limitation
5.362
No school belonging to this Association shall participate on more than twenty seven (27) dates of interscholastic contests, exclusive of the IHSA series, between Monday of Week 1 through Sunday of Week 52.
No individual shall compete on more than twenty seven (27) dates of interscholastic contests, exclusive of the IHSA series, between Monday of Week 1 through Sunday of Week 52.
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5.372
Schools belonging to this Association may organize their Scholastic Bowl teams at any time during the year to practice or to participate in interscholastic contests.
5.370 GIRLS WRESTLING
Season Limitation
Team Limitation
5.373 Individual Limitation
Illustrations for Sections 5.010-5.360 of the By-laws
The illustrations and situations it contains are for purposes of assisting in understanding the application of the particular by-law to which they pertain. In the case of any conflict, whether actual or believed, between the illustrations, examples or situations in this publication and the constitution or by-laws of the IHSA, the constitution and by-laws shall control.
BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETBALL
270) PLAY BEFORE OPENING DATE
Q. If a school begins basketball practice on Monday of Week 19 and has its first varsity game scheduled for Tuesday, of Week 21, one day after the legal date for the first game, may it play a controlled scrimmage against a neighboring school on Friday of Week 18.
A. No. (By-law 5.041 c)
BOYS FOOTBALL
271) FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGES
Q. May a school play a controlled scrimmage against another school on Saturday of Week 8, if it began football practice on Monday, Week 7, and has its first varsity game scheduled for Friday of Week 9?
A. No. A scrimmage against another school in any sport is viewed to be an interscholastic contest. Therefore, it must be counted as one of the contests a school is permitted to play during the season, and is restricted as to the dates for playing contests. (By-law 5.062)
BOYS AND GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING
272) SPLITTING SWIMMING AND DIVING DATES
Q. In the event a school participates in a meet where the diving event is not conducted due to insufficient pool depth, may the divers from that school compete in a different diving competition on a different date without having the school charged with an additional contest under the contest limitations?
A. Yes. (By-law 5.122)
5.371
No school belonging to this Association shall organize its Girls Wrestling teams, practice or participate in interscholastic contests earlier than Monday of Week 19 or later than Saturday of Week 34 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar.
A member school may conduct its first interscholastic contest in Girls Wrestling no earlier than Monday of Week 21 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar.
No Girls Wrestling team representing a member school shall, in any one season, participate in more than eighteen (18) dates exclusive of the IHSA series.
Students who participate on a school squad in Girls Wrestling may participate in no more than thirty-five (35) matches in any one season prior to the IHSA series, regardless of competition format.
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