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104new coaching job. Now that the travel basketball coach has left the Receiving School, can the student get full eligibility?A. No, whether the travel basketball coach remains or not is immaterial to the student%u2019s eligibility. The fact that a student has a link with a member of the coaching staff of the Receiving School suggests that the transfer was athletically motivated/the result of undue influence, and the student%u2019s motivation included the %u201clink%u201d to the coaching staff. Having transferred as the result of athletics/undue influence, the student will be ineligible regardless of whether the travel basketball coach remains at the School or not. (rule 20-2.)Q. 20-10 Must there be evidence of actual %u2018undue influence%u2019 before the Past Link Rule applies? A. No. The Past Link Rule was established after the IHSAA witnessed a pattern, in both school settings and in non-school settings (e.g. AAU), where student athletes with direct and indirect contacts and connections with coaches, would later end up Enrolling at the very School where the coach just happens to be employed. These circumstances strongly suggested that the student%u2019s reason for transferring was athletic and was being enticed to transfer. However, the IHSAA%u2019s ability to adequately investigate these type cases is limited, there is generally little available evidence that the coach or his/her supporters actually recruited the student to enroll at the coach%u2019s School and there are few if any admissions by students, families, supporters, etc., that a transfer was athletic. And therefore, to control this problem under these circumstances, the Past Link Rule was established using the presumption that these type transfers are athletically motivated and/or the result of undue influence, and proof of undue influence is not required. The IHSAA has successfully used a similar presumption in its Transfer Rule. Feeder Schools and Transfer Students Q. 20-11 May a single middle school be a feeder of more than One (1) high school?A. Yes, if by rule of the school system, students who attend a middle school would automatically matriculate to Two (2) different high schools in the school system, then the middle school is a feeder of both high schools. Q. 20-12 Does a high school, which is a part of a Private School system which does not have a middle school, have a Feeder School?A. No, a Feeder School must be a part of the same school system as the high school it feeds. Q. 20-13 May a student who has graduated from the eighth grade attend a Camp of a school at which the student has not Enrolled?A. No, following the eighth grade year, students may not attend a high school%u2019s athletic Camps or Clinics unless they are attending a Feeder School or have Enrolled in the sponsoring school. (rule 20-8)Q. 20-14 Over the Summer a transfer student goes to a Receiving School, talks to members of the athletic staff and participates in the School%u2019s Summer Open Facilities Program. Is this legal? A. No. First, all initial contact with a School cannot be with the athletic staff; before talking to the athletic staff the transfer student needs to Enroll at the School. (rule 20-5) Second, prior to a transfer student taking part in a Receiving School%u2019s Summer Open Facilities Program, the transfer student must Enroll at the School and must complete and submit to the IHSAA the first section of an IHSAA Transfer Report. (rule 15-3.1)Q. 20-15 After a student moves from the his mother%u2019s to his father%u2019s residence in another town, the father makes initial contact at a Private School with the baseball coach (meets and discusses student%u2019s prospective assimilation into the school%u2019s baseball program). The father also makes initially contact with the baseball coach (meets and discusses the baseball program) at the Public School which Rule 20 - Undue Infl uence