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Rule 19 - Eligibility and Transfer

g. The student’s placement arrangements are completed in advance of the student’s departure
from his/her home country.
h. The student is attending School under a foreign exchange program approved by both the
Association and the Council of Standards for International Education Travel (CSIET). A
foreign exchange program, to be approved by the Association:
(1.) shall be under the auspices of an established national corporation, a not-for-profit
corporation or organization or a national civic organization;
(2.) must assign students to schools by a method which insures that no student, school
or other interested party may influence the assignment;
(3.) must consult with the member school principal prior to placement of a student in a
school;
(4.) must be able to certify the student’s participation in interschool athletics in his/her
home country;
(5.) must not select or place the student based on his/her athletic interest or abilities.
A list of approved CSIET and Association programs will be provided annually.
19-7.2 Direct Placements by Exchange Program
If a foreign exchange program, approved by the CSIET and the Association, makes a direct
placement of a student in a member School, the IHSAA must be notified in writing. A placement
is considered a “direct placement” when a foreign exchange program places a student in a
specific home or school, or in One (1) of several homes or schools, at the request of the
student, parent, host, coach, booster, school, etc. A student receiving a direct placement may
be granted Limited Eligibility. If a school fails to notify the Association of a direct placement,
the student may be declared ineligible and the school may be subject to additional penalties
as determined by the Commissioner.
(Note: The member School must file the appropriate form with the IHSAA prior to the student
receiving eligibility.)
19-8 Procedure Upon Transfer
When a student transfers to a member School, the receiving School principal shall promptly
conduct an investigation and file an IHSAA Athletic Transfer Report with the Association.
19-8.1 IHSAA Athletic Transfer Report and Investigation
a. The principal of the receiving School shall promptly conduct an investigation commensurate
with the facts known and the information provided to the principal at the time that an IHSAA
Athletic Transfer Report is requested or initiated by a student or such student’s parent(s)/
Guardian(s).
b. On all transfers, an IHSAA Athletic Transfer Report shall immediately be completed by
the student and/or the student’s parent(s)/Guardian(s) as well as the receiving School
principal and principal of the School from which the student transferred (sending school)
and forwarded to the Association together with:
(1.) a written report reflecting the results of the investigation of the receiving School
principal;
(2.) a statement explaining the circumstances, documented and supported in all
appropriate ways;
(3.) any verified or unverified statements from the student and/or the student’s parent(s)/
Guardian(s), and others;
(4.) all pertinent and relevant documents which appear to bear on the subject; and
(5.) recommendations regarding immediate eligibility by both principals, and in those
circumstances where the student attended a school other than the sending and
receiving school, at any time during the Three-hundred Sixty-five (365) days prior to
the transfer, a recommendation regarding immediate eligibility shall be provided by
the principal of the other school(s) the student attended during the Three-hundred
Sixty-five (365) days prior to the transfer.
c. The receiving School principal shall notify the student and the student’s parent(s)/
Guardian(s) that further investigation has been requested by either the sending school
principal or the receiving School principal, or if it would appear that further investigation
may be undertaken by the Association; under such circumstances, the student and the
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