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coach; scores and/or statistics are kept or recorded; time is kept; game officials are used;
admission is charged; and results are published. The following is a non-exclusive list of
indicia that an assembly is not a Contest: lack of organization, spontaneity, and informality.
Contest Administrator: Individual who works in any capacity at an interscholastic contest
site for the host School.
Contest Season: The period of time between the date of the fi rst authorized contest in a sport
until the starting date of the Tournament Series in that sport.
Controlled Scrimmage: A Controlled Scrimmage is a special interscholastic practice whereby
Two (2) member Schools’ teams work out against one another under IHSAA guidelines and
under the supervision of their respective team coaches. While game conditions may be
simulated, this event shall be structured as a teaching opportunity for coaches and shall
be shorter and less demanding physically than a regular Season Contest. In order to be
eligible for a Controlled Scrimmage, a student must be academically eligible, if a transfer
student must have full or limited eligibility and must have participated in Five (5) separate
days of organized Practice prior to the day of the Controlled Scrimmage under the direct
supervision of the Member School Coaching Staff in that sport (in football it must be Five (5)
days of unrestricted full contact Practice). A Controlled Scrimmage is not a Season Contest
and does not count as a Season Contest in determining the maximum number of Season
Contests during a Contest Season. Licensed offi cials must be used in a Controlled Scrim-

mage in sports where offi cials are required. A Controlled Scrimmage may not be scouted
by anyone not affi liated with a team participating in the Controlled Scrimmage.

Directors: Board of Directors.
District: With respect to a Public School, a District is the geographical area designated by the
Public School’s governing body from which students who reside within it would normally
matriculate to a specifi c Public School. With respect to the Association a District is the geo-
graphical area as determined for the purpose of Director member election and representation.
Electorate: The principals of all member Schools which are entitled to vote for a member of
the Board of Directors.

Eligibility Certification Date: The date when a School certifi es the grades earned by each
student during the preceding Grading Period for purposes of establishing academic eligibility.
Emancipated Student: A student (i) who is Eighteen (18) years of age; (ii) who does not live
with his/her parent(s) (natural or adoptive), Guardian(s), relative(s) or close family friend(s);
(iii) who lives in his/her own residence and (iv) who is totally self-supportive and receives
no unearned income or fi nancial assistance (directly or indirectly) from others.
Enroll and Enrollment: A student ‘Enrolls’ at a School and a student’s ‘Enrollment’ at a School,
occurs after the student (i) has formally enrolled at the School, (ii) no longer attends any
School at which the student had previously been enrolled or attended, (iii) has completed
any formal withdrawal process required by any school at which the student had previously
been enrolled or previously attended, and (iv) has provided the Receiving School a copy of
any available withdrawal form. For purposes of rule 19, the date of Enrollment at a School
occurs when the student attends either a scheduled day of school, Practices for a sport, or
participates in a Contest for the new School.
Enrolled Full-time: A student is considered Enrolled Full-time at a School during a Grading
Period when the student is Enrolled at the School in a minimum of Four (4) full credit subjects
(or the equivalent), and either (i) is enrolled in a minimum of Seventy percent (70%) of all
full credit subject in which the student can take at the School during the Grading Period, or,
(ii) when the student simultaneously attends more than One (1) School during the Grading
Period, is enrolled in a minimum of Seventy percent (70%) of all full credit subject in which
the student is enrolled during the Grading Period.
Fan: A patron who attends a Contest and is other than a contestant, coach, Contest Admin-
istrator, School Administrator or Official.
Feeder School: A Feeder School of a particular School is a school where an 8th grade stu-
dent would automatically matriculate to that particular School, provided however, a Feeder
School must be a part of the same local school system as that particular School or in the
same Dioceses as the School to which it feeds, and the matriculation must be by rule of
the local school system or Diocese. In addition, “Feeder School” also includes a primary
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