Eligibility question

[Backspin]

If a current senior basketball player finished 8th grade, changed schools and repeated 8th grade, would he be eligible to play his senior year?

[HoopDreamsCoachQ]

If a current senior basketball player finished 8th grade, changed schools and repeated 8th grade, would he be eligible to play his senior year?

 

Yes. This happened last year with a kid finishing his 8th grade year at Danville, taking 8th grade at Boyle the next year, then going to Danville HS this year as a freshman.

[Backspin]

Will he have to sit out a year to be eligible his senior year

[Jessie]

Better double check that. I believe that is similar to what happened to Rodney Haddix at Scott Co. Transferred to Lex Cath. Came back to Scott Co. Repeated a year. Ruled ineligible as a senior. I could be wrong but I think that was the case. Ruled ineligible because he did not actually "fail" the grade. Kid missed his senior year....

[X`s and O`s]

I don't know for sure but its a age thing , I`m Guessing if he`s not 19 before school starts he would be ok. Or could be once you play a high school sport , you cant hold back after that.

[spindoc]

IF the child was promoted to the next grade, the answer is no. Maybe we should ask Bill Walker, or Henry as he's now known by. And the new rules that will govern middle school will have a bearing on that decision going forward.

[Backspin]

If he transfers in high school and sits a year could he then be able to compete his senior season?

[sportsmaniac]

It also depends on if he competed in a sport during both of the 8th grade years. IF i am not mistaken you have 6 years of eligibility from the time you enter 7th grade. So if he repeats 8th grade but does not play that year, he would still have 4 years of eligibility left. Then you have to determine if he/she turns 19 before Aug. 1st of his senior year, if they do then they can not play that year for age reasons.

[spindoc]

Let's just let the rules be stated here instead of the ideas rolling around in our heads.

 

First this ain't college, you start the clock in the 9th grade you get 4 years and the only exemption is a medical hardship. See Lewis County guard Terrence Smith a few seasons ago when he had a terrible truck accident. And he still wasn't too old to meet the maximum age requirements. Those requirements can be found in bylaw 3

http://khsaa.org/handbook/bylaws/20142015/bylaw3.pdf

 

Secondly, the age requirement is outlined in bylaw 2. Can't be 19 before Aug 1st of senior year to be eligible which should really hack off all of the daddies that get hung up on the holdback situation.

http://khsaa.org/handbook/bylaws/20142015/bylaw2.pdf

 

So, maybe we can start there.

[Clyde]

If a current senior basketball player finished 8th grade, changed schools and repeated 8th grade, would he be eligible to play his senior year?

 

He would not.

 

As Spin or someone said the old rule said once you were "promoted" from 8th grade you have 4 years. This would be the 5th.

 

The new rule starting next school year says you have 4 once you have STARTED 9th grade.

[Clyde]

It also depends on if he competed in a sport during both of the 8th grade years. IF i am not mistaken you have 6 years of eligibility from the time you enter 7th grade. So if he repeats 8th grade but does not play that year, he would still have 4 years of eligibility left. Then you have to determine if he/she turns 19 before Aug. 1st of his senior year, if they do then they can not play that year for age reasons.

 

The only clock is the 4 year clock.

[PurplePride92]

Yes. This happened last year with a kid finishing his 8th grade year at Danville, taking 8th grade at Boyle the next year, then going to Danville HS this year as a freshman.

 

This isn't entirely accurate. He finished 7th grade at Danville in 2012. Was home schooled 2012-13 and then enrolled at Boyle County as a 7th grader in the spring of 2013. He began as an 8th grader at Boyle for the 2013-14 school year. He transferred back to Danville after his spring break at Boyle in spring 2014. He is currently a freshman at Danville. He will be eligible his whole high school career.

[BirdBrain]

So he did his Pre-Prep School at Boyle, then got into the Danville system ? I hope there is more behind this story than just a kid playing ball

[PurplePride92]

So he did his Pre-Prep School at Boyle, then got into the Danville system ? I hope there is more behind this story than just a kid playing ball

 

No. He was in the Danville system his whole life. After his 7th grade year at Danville he was home schooled. Then later that year during his home schooling he enrolled at Boyle County as a 7th grader. After spring break during his 8th grade year at Boyle he transferred back to Danville. He is currently a freshman at Danville.

[Backspin]

Reason I ask is that I heard that a kid currently in the 16th region finished his 8th grade year at one school and then repeated 8th grade at another school. I thought that in this case he would be ineligible his senior year. I was Wondering if sitting out a year in high school would make him eligible his senior year since he only played four seasons.