[wu51]

If a player transfer to a school for a personal reason why can their old school assume that it was athletic related and OHSAA deny's this young person from playing? Everyone who transfer and plays a sport at their new school you could say it was athletic related. For the old school, if a player leaves your school, for whatever reason, why would you care? If they didn't want to be at your school why would you want them?

Could someone help me understand how one school opinion can cause a student to be ineligible with OHSAA?

Does anyone know how someone could protest this?

[ryancsportsmom]

There are appeal processes that the student can go through. Most initial transfer approvals are denied. I think there are 3 appeals allowed.

[homeruntrot]

You can go to ohsaa.org and look at their meeting minutes....theyve denied close to ten transfer appeals this year and approved zero.

[Red_Skin_Pride]

Because there are athletes out there who have played for 3-4 different schools during their 4 year high school careers, and people are sick of seeing it. You said that "Everyone who transfer and plays a sport at their new school you could say it was athletic related"....well, on the flip side of that, anyone who transfers and plays sports can say that it wasn't athletic related, even if it was, and say it was for "personal reasons".

Sadly, people have taken advantage of the system to their benefit, so now there are uniform rules in place for a student who plays sports and decides to transfer. You know the rules (or should) before you transfer, so don't complain if you can't play at the new school.

[gamauter]

If you move to a new district you should be able to play, if it was an open enrollment move and you went for academic reasons it should not matter anyways.

[irish_buffalo]

Yet kids can transfer to a parochial and are cleared.

My biggest thing is for the OHSAA to get consistent. I saw a senior basketball player go from Toledo Start to Toledo St. Johns a couple years back and was cleared. Yet any kid that MOVES INTO Toledo Whitmer district is looked at with a fine tooth comb (several denied).

If I move into another district and my kid is denied to play sports I have a great case against the OHSAA and win.

[gamauter]

You have to sit out a year if you move to a parochial school, if you move to a new public school district you can play immediately.

[ryancsportsmom]

Originally Posted by irish_buffalo

Yet kids can transfer to a parochial and are cleared.

My biggest thing is for the OHSAA to get consistent. I saw a senior basketball player go from Toledo Start to Toledo St. Johns a couple years back and was cleared. Yet any kid that MOVES INTO Toledo Whitmer district is looked at with a fine tooth comb (several denied).

If I move into another district and my kid is denied to play sports I have a great case against the OHSAA and win.

The OHSAA is pretty clear that transferring from public to private after you've entered 9th grade (again unless the schools are in different districts) is cause to sit a year. However, if a child transfers from private back to their HOME public school, they do not sit at all for any reason.

You indicate that the situation you know of was "a couple years back". The policies for transfers and "sitting out" have changed dramatically in the last 8 years for many reasons so prior to that it was a little easier to transfer and play if both superintendents (leaving district and receiving district) signed off agreement with the transfer and you met one of the 4 (I think that's what it was) conditions allowed then for transfers.

Now it is incredibly tougher to make a transfer and be exempted from the "sitting out" rule.