ATHLETIC ELIGIBILITY
The eligibility standards pertaining to scholarship,
age, residency, enrollment, and attendance, conduct, character, discipline,
transfers, foreign exchange programs, recruitment, etc. shall be those
established by the OHSAA, except for those that are either not addressed by the
OHSAA, and consequently have been put in place by the school district or BHS,
or those that have been made stricter by the school district or BHS.
In order to be eligible for interscholastic competition
or participation at contests, a student must be enrolled in Bellefontaine High
School, and must have been enrolled in school during the immediately preceding
grading period, and must meet or exceed the following academic standards as
established by the Bellefontaine Board of Education:
1. The
athlete must be enrolled in passing 5 credits (Block credits are doubled
while
skinny
classes are the same credit worth.)
· An
athlete participating in Post Secondary option classes must provide
documentation of credits and grades at the end of the High School grading
periods.
2. The
athlete must have achieved at least a 1.5 grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0
grading scale during the
immediately preceding grading period. (A=4)
3. If the
student’s GPA for the immediately preceding grading period is below a 2.0 but
at least a 1.5, he/she will be required to attend study
tables during A/I five times a
week.
Failure to
attend study tables will result in the following consequences:
a. 1st Violation – After school detention
b. 2nd
Violation – Suspension of 10% of the number of regular season games of
that sport.
c. 3rd
Violation – The athlete will be declared academically ineligible for the
remainder
of that grading period by the administration of the High School.
One’s eligibility or ineligibility continues until the
start of the 5th school day of the next grading period, at which time the
grades from the immediately preceding grading period become effective. An exception to this rule is that eligibility
or ineligibility for the first grading period of the school year commences with
the start of the fall sports season.
The eligibility of a transfer student must be
established by records or verification from the school from which the student
is transferring. Such a student cannot
be eligible for the first grading period of attendance at BHS until this
information is received and compliance with OHSAA transfer bylaws has been
verified.
Summer school grades earned may not be used to
substitute for failing grades from the last grading period of the regular
school year.
The responsibility of establishing eligibility lies with
BHS, and final determination of eligibility is the responsibility of the
Associate Principal, Athletic Director or Principal.