Recruiting of Athletes, School Team Sports Seasons, Playing in Non-School Competition

RECRUITING OF ATHLETES

1. The rules prohibit recruiting of high school students for athletics. If you are solicited to enroll in or transfer to a school to participate in athletics, you are being illegally recruited and your eligibility is in jeopardy.
2. You will lose your eligibility if you enroll in or transfer to a school in response to recruiting efforts by any person or group of persons, connected with or not connected with the school, related to athletic participation.
3. You will lose your eligibility if you receive special benefits or privileges as a prospective student-athlete, which are not uniformly made available to all students who attend your school.
4. You may not receive an "athletic scholarship," or any other special benefit from your school because you participate in athletics.
5. It is a violation for any student-athlete to receive or be offered remuneration or any special inducement, which is not made available to all applicants who apply to or enroll in the school.
   
   Special inducement includes, but is not 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
   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
6. It is also a violation 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. Please remember that you may not be offered or receive any benefit, service, privilege or opportunity is not also provided or made available to all prospective students at that school.

SCHOOL TEAM SPORTS SEASONS

1. Each sport conducted by IHSA member schools has a starting and ending date. Your school may not organize a team, begin practice or participate in contests in a given sport until the authorized starting date. Your school may not continue to practice or participate in contests after the authorized ending date. This means that
   1. You may not participate on a non-school team coached by any member of your school's coaching staff unless it meets specific criteria established by the IHSA Board of Directors
   2. No school coach may require you to participate in an out-of-season sport program as a requirement for being a member of a school team
2. Violation of the sport season by-laws will result in penalty to your and/or to your school's coaching personnel.

PLAYING IN NON-SCHOOL COMPETITION

1. During the time you are participating on a school team in a sport at your high school, you may neither play on a non-school team nor compete in non-school competition as an individual in that same sport.
2. If you participate in non-school competition during a sport season and subsequently wish to join the school team in the same sport, you will not be eligible.
3. If you are trying out for or competing as a representative of the United States in recognized national or international competition during your high school's sport season in the same sport, you must obtain approval from the IHSA Office.Your principal must initiate the request for approval in writing.
4. You may try out for a non-school team while you are on your school's team in the same sport, but you may not practice, receive instruction, participate in workouts, or participate in competition with a non- school team in the same sport until you cease being a member of your school's team.You cease being a member of your school's team when the team(s) of which you are a member terminates for the school year.
5. You will become ineligible if you play on any junior college, college, or university team during your high school career.

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