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Rule 19 - Eligibility and Transfer

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
student’s parent(s)/Guardian(s) shall be advised that they have the opportunity to present
any pertinent information not previously provided.
d. The failure of the student and/or the student’s parent(s)/Guardian(s) or the receiving School
or sending school principals, to process and file with the Association the IHSAA Athletic
Transfer Report, may render the student ineligible and may subject the offending school
to disciplinary action.

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