Since state law requires that all secondary schools
belong to the Michigan High School Athletic Association in order to
participate in interschool sports activities, the Board authorizes the
district secondary schools to enroll as members of the Association and
to participate in the approved interschool athletic activities
sponsored by the Association and its member schools.
The Board delegates to the principal of a junior or
senior high school the responsibility of supervising such activities
and accepts the constitution and by-laws of the Association as the
governing code under which the district shall conduct its program of
interscholastic athletics, with the following exception (which sets a
scholastic standard higher than the minimum requirement of the
Association code):
"All participants in interscholastic athletic
competition in grades 7-12 must have earned and maintain a GPA in
accordance with the requirements of policy IDF in the previous
semester as well as from the beginning of the current semester to the
date of seven (7) calendar days prior to a contest in order to be
eligible for petition, as amended by Board action on August 13, 1995.
Continued eligibility will depend upon maintaining this average."
The Board requires that a student have an annual
physical exam at their expense and be declared physically fit for the
type of interschool sport in which said student intends to engage.
Students need to be examined only once during each school year.
The Board shall require and pay for athletic
accident insurance for all interschool sports and all participants in
grades 7-12. Students shall be provided with insurance prior to
practicing for any interscholastic athletic event.
