IHSA New Principals

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IHSA New Principals Workshop

• Key Rules
• Activities
• Geographic Principle

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Key Rules

• Drug Testing
• Open Gyms
• Season Limitations
• Independent Team Participation
• Strategic Planning

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Drug Testing - background

• 2008-09 marked first year of testing
• 684 tests administered
• 10 positive test results
• 0 students/schools penalized

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Drug Testing looking forward

• August 2009 HB 272 signed into law
• Number of changes forthcoming
• Increased of tests
• Testing throughout school year
• Coaches education requirement
• Fall 2009 same approach used in 2008
• Numerous resources available at
• www.ihsa.org/smac/specialtopics

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Drug Testing - essentials

• 3 key components
• Consent
• Procedures
• School notification
• Post competition
• Urine Samples (banned drug classes)
• Consequences
• Individual/School

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OPEN GYM - background

• This rule allows schools to offer students
  informal opportunities to participate.
• Monitoring a few key components is critical

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OPEN GYM the actual rule

• 3.160 OPEN GYM LIMITATIONS
• 3.161 Schools may open their gymnasiums or
  facilities for recreational activities to
  students or other persons who reside in or
  outside their district, under the following
  conditions
• a) There is no coaching or instruction in the
  skills and techniques in any sport at any time.
• b) Participation is voluntary and is not required
  directly or indirectly for membership on a high
  school squad.
• c) Comparable opportunities are afforded to all
  participants.
• d) Notification of open gym.

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OPEN GYM compliance

• Investigations generally uncover abuses of this
  rule
• School has obligation to ensure these components
  arent violated
• Establish a chain of command
• AD/someone else
• You are still responsible

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Season Limitations - background

• One of our oldest rules (2 mentions)
• This rule protects students
• Designed to keep programs from becoming an
  excessively dominant presence in a students life
• Society has changedas has this rule

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SEASON LIMITATIONS the rule

• By-law 5.000
• This by-law establishes the time period in which
  each sport and activity can function with school
  involvement, organization, and supervision.
• It also provides for the number of contests in
  which a school (each level) can compete in,
  exclusive of the IHSA state series.
• Note 1 Make sure that each level has contracts
  designated for that level for all contests.

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SEASON LIMITATIONS the rule

• By-law 2.090
• No school belonging to this Association shall
  organize its teams, practice, scrimmage or
  participate in any interscholastic sport outside
  of the season limitations as prescribed in
  Section 5.000 of these By-Laws
• Nor shall any person who coaches any sport at a
  member school, coach or supervise a non-school
  team in any interscholastic sport composed of
  students from that school, except within the
  guidelines promulgated by the IHSA Board of
  Directors.
• Exception For each sport, a school may hold one
  informational meeting prior to the start of its
  season to provide information regarding tryouts,
  procedures and forms that need to be on file.
  Coaches or school personnel may not use this
  meeting to organize out of season programs
  (example fall, winter or spring leagues).

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SEASON LIMITATIONS compliance

• Another critical monitoring situation
• Work with your coaches (esp. non-educators)
• Have contracts for all games/all levels

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Ind. Team Participation - background

• One of our oldest rules
• This rule protects students
• Designed to allow students to enjoy all the
  benefits of their school
• Society has changedas has this rule

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Ind. Team Participation the rule

• 3.100 INDEPENDENT TEAM PARTICIPATION
• 3.101 During the school season for a given sport,
  in a school which maintains a school team in that
  sport, a student shall not participate on any
  non-school team, nor as an individual unattached
  in non-school competition, in that given sport or
  in any competition that involves the skill of the
  sport in question. Violation shall cause
  ineligibility for a period not to exceed 365
  days. An exception may be made by the Executive
  Director under the guidelines adopted by the
  Board of Directors for competitions sponsored and
  conducted directly by the National Governing Body
  or its official Illinois affiliate for the sport.
  
• 3.102 Students may participate in a tryout for a
  non-school athletic team while a member of a high
  school team in the same sport, provided the
  tryout is exclusively a demonstration of skills
  with no practice or instruction involved.
• 3.103 The phrase, participate on any non-school
  team, as utilized in By-law 3.101, is defined to
  mean engaging in any team activity.

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Ind. Team Participation the rule

• 3.100 INDEPENDENT TEAM PARTICIPATION
• 3.104 In the event a school does not maintain a
  team which competes during the regular high
  school season for a sport.
• 3.105 Students or teams at member schools shall
  not be permitted to participate on, practice with
  or compete against any college, junior college or
  university athletic team.
• 3.106 To be eligible for a school team in a given
  sport, students must cease non-school practice
  and competition in that sport no later than five
  days after the date on which the school team
  engages in its first practice or tryout in that
  sport.
• 3.107 During the school year, a person who is a
  coach in any sport at a member school, may be
  involved in any respect with any non-school team,
  only if the number of squad members from his/her
  school which are on the non-school team roster
  does not exceed one-half the number of players
  needed to field a team in actual IHSA state
  series competition in that sport.

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Ind. Team Participation compliance

• Critical rule to teach coaches (keep away)
• Critical for students to search out
  coaches/administrators
• Possibly the rule that generates the largest
  number of questions for our office

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Strategic Planning

• Board of Directors approved a strategic planning
  process in spring of 2008
• 3 Action Teams
• 2008-09 school term Staffing/Facilities
• Financial Outlook
• 2009-10 school term Governance
• Reviewing Handbook for currency
• Much more to follow