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Rule 8 - Conduct, Character, Discipline

A. Yes. This is a serious violation of the Contest Rule, rule 19, and should immediately
be reported to the Commissioner by the coach’s School principal. (rule 9-16)
Q. 8-3 What action should be taken by the Contest Officials when an unsporting act
occurs and a School’s player or coach is ejected? And what action should be
taken by the principal of the player’s or the coach’s School?
A. Under the Conduct Rule, rule 8, a Contest Official who ejects a player or coach
must immediately initiate an unsporting report with the IHSAA, and the principal
of the player’s or the coach’s School must promptly submit to the IHSAA an
acknowledgement to the unsporting report. The principal is also encouraged to
have the ejected player attend the Contest(s), in street clothes, and sit on the
team bench; an ejected coach on the other hand is barred from attending the
next Contest(s). (rule 8-3)
Q. 8-4 What action should a member School principal take when an unsporting act occurs
involving a Contest Administrator or a School Administrator who is ejected from
a Contest?
A. The Contest official who ejected the Contest Administrator or the School
Administrator shall immediately initiate an unsporting report with the IHSAA,
and the principal, hosting the Contest worked by the Contest Administrator, or
in the case of a School Administrator, the principal of that School Administrator,
shall thereafter promptly submit to the IHSAA a response to the unsporting
report. The reporting principal shall not permit the Contest Administrator or the
School Administrator attend the School’s next interschool Contest at that level
of competition, and all other interschool Contests at any level in the interim, and
shall enforce any other penalties assessed. (rule 8-4)
Q. 8-5 If a student in One (1) sport is ejected from a Contest for an unsporting act, is
the student suspended from the next interschool Contest(s) in just that sport or is
the student also suspended from the next interschool Contest(s) in other sports
in which the student may be participating?
A. If a student in One (1) sport is ejected from a Contest for an unsporting act, the
student would be suspended from the next interschool Contest(s) in just that sport.
So, for example, if a student, who plays soccer and kicks for the football team, is
ejected for an unsportsmanlike act in soccer, the student would be suspended
from the next Contest(s) in soccer but would not be suspended from any football
games. (rule 8-3)
Q. 8-6 What is the penalty when a student or a coach is ejected from a Contest for an
unsporting act for the second time during a sports season?
A. The IHSAA Unsporting and Ejection Policy provides that a coach or student who
is ejected a second time during a sport’s Contest Season must purchase and
complete the current edition of the NFHS Teaching and Modeling Behavior course,
may not return to play or coach in any sport until the completion of such course
and must fully cooperate with the IHSAA for purposes of its verification that the
coach or student has completed the course. This is in addition to rule 8-4(b) and
rule 8-4(d) which requires the principal of the student or coach to suspend the
student or coach for the next Two (2) Contests if student, or Four (4) Contests
if a coach, at that level of competition and all other Contests at any level in the
interim. (rule 8-4(b), 8-4(d).
Q. 8-7 If a student is ejected during the last junior varsity Contest of the Contest Season,
but there are several Varsity Contests left in the Contest Season (and the student
is listed on the Tournament Series sectional entry list), may the student serve the
Suspension during the next remaining Varsity Contest(s), and then be eligible to
participate in the remainder of the Varsity Contest Season and in the Tournament
Series?
A. Yes, if a student is ejected from a Contest for an unsporting act, the student will
be suspended from the next Contest in that sport at that level of competition and
at any other level in the interim. However, if there are no remaining Contests at
the junior varsity level, the student may serve the Suspension in the next higher
level Contest(s) (here, the Varsity), and be eligible to participate the rest of the
Varsity Contest season and in the Tournament Series.
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