SUMMARY OF PIAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ ACTIONS AT ITS
MEETING OF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 AND FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011
I. Approved the following member school applications, effective July 1, 2012:
Susquehanna Preparatory/Apple Tree School (PIAA District II)
II. Approved the following withdrawals from PIAA membership, effective
July 1, 2011:
Cornerstone Christian Preparatory Academy (PIAA District VII)
Geibel Catholic Junior High School (PIAA District VII)
Harborcreek Youth Services (PIAA District X)
III. Approved the following requests concerning cooperative sponsorship of a
sport, effective the beginning of 2011-2012 school year (No affect on
classification size of Team[s]):
A. Montoursville Area High School and Saint John Neumann Regional
Academy (PIAA District IV), to cooperatively sponsor boys’ and girls’ swimming
and diving.
B. Cowanesque Valley and Williamson Junior High Schools (PIAA District IV),
to cooperatively sponsor boys’ and girls’ track and field.
C. Beaver County Christian and New Brighton High Schools (PIAA District VII),
to cooperatively sponsor softball.
D. Oakland Catholic High School and Winchester Thurston School (PIAA
District VII) to cooperatively sponsor softball.
IV. Suspended application of ARTICLE III, ATTENDANCE, Section 11,
Cooperative Sponsorship of a Sport, subsection B, Provisions Applicable
to all Agreements, sub-subsection 2, Request to Approve Agreements, subsub-
subsections d, e, and f, of the PIAA By-Laws, limiting changes which
“would affect the classification size of a Team” and approved the following
request concerning cooperative sponsorship of a sport, effective the
beginning of 2011-2012 school year:
Oil City High School (PIAA District X) and Venango Catholic High School (PIAA
District IX) to cooperatively sponsor softball, conditioned upon PIAA District IX
Committee approval.
V. Approved the following requests concerning cooperative sponsorship of a
sport, effective the beginning of 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years:
WILL BE UPDATED AS SOON AS RECONCILED WITH THE PIAA MEMBER
SCHOOLS’ DATABASE.
VI. Accepted the unaudited PIAA (Headquarters Only) financial statements for
the months ended September 30, October 31, and November 30, 2011.
VII. Approved PIAA Golf Steering Committee Recommendations to:
A. Approve the Request for Proposal (RFP) for hosting the 2012 and/or 2013
PIAA Golf Championships.
B. Adopt a policy, which provides for a golfer to advance from a District
qualifying Tournament to a Region qualifying Tournament to score no greater than
100 for 18 holes of stroke play, at that golfer’s District qualifying Tournament,
effective July 1, 2012.
C. Amend the Contestant’s Attire Policy to eliminate the logo restriction on golf
caps and visors, effective July 1, 2012.
D. Authorize a full complement of 6 Teams advancing to the PIAA Team Golf
Championships (400 aggregate), per enrollment classification by utilizing a formula
based upon those second place Team finishes in their respective District qualifying
Tournaments and applying a formula based upon the first 18 holes of play, total
number of strokes; the course rating and slope to determine the next most
deserving qualifier(s) to the PIAA Team Golf Championships, effective July 1,
2012.
VIII. Approved the PIAA Tennis Steering Committee Recommendations to:
A. Approve, on a first reading basis, the proposed brackets (pairings) for the
2012 and 2013 PIAA AA and AAA Girls’ Team and Singles and Doubles Tennis
Championships; and the proposed brackets (pairings) 2013 and 2014 PIAA AA and
AAA Boys’ Team and Singles and Doubles Tennis Championships.
B. Amend, on a first reading basis, ARTICLE XVI, SEASON AND OUT-OFSEASON
RULES AND REGULATIONS, Table I - Schedule of Fall Sports and
Table III - Schedule of Spring Sports, of the PIAA By-Laws, with the following
clarification for defining a Regular Season Contest in the sport of tennis: For round
robin or similar alternative competition formats involving more than two PIAA
member schools, three (3) standard six-game or reduced play sets counts as one
(1) Regular Season Contest, regardless of the number of opponents from different
schools playing in the tennis Contest. (e.g. School A, School B, School C, and
School D participate in round robin tennis competition using the standard six-game
set scoring format. The #1 singles player from School A opposes the #1 singles
player from School B for just the first set, then opposes the #1 singles player from
School C for the 2nd set, and then opposes the #1 singles player from School D for
the 3rd set. This would constitute one (1) Regular Season Contest for the #1 singles
player of School A.
IX. Approved PIAA Cross Country Steering Committee Recommendations to:
A. Amend, on a first reading basis, the Policy for Determining Number of
Enrollment Classifications in the Sports of Cross Country, Swimming and Diving,
Tennis, Track and Field, and Wrestling and the Policy for Determining Number of
Enrollment Classifications in the Sports of Baseball, Basketball, Field Hockey,
Football, Soccer, Softball, and Volleyball, to provide for an increase in number of
enrollment classifications in sport of cross country from two to three.
B. Adopt, on a first reading basis, an online rules interpretation meeting for
all head Coaches of PIAA member schools sponsoring the sport of cross country.
X. Approved the PIAA Volleyball Steering Committee Recommendation to:
Adopt, on a first reading basis, a best three-out-of-five set match, single
elimination format, for the 2012 and 2013 PIAA A, AA, and AAA Girls’ Volleyball
Championships and the 2013 and 2014 PIAA AA and AAA Boys’ Volleyball
Championships, which would extend the championships (finals) by one week to a
Saturday best three-out-of-five set match.
XI. Approved the PIAA Soccer Steering Committee Recommendations to:
A. Amend, on a first reading basis, ARTICLE XIII, PENALTIES, Section 8,
Disqualification From Next Contest(s), of the PIAA By-Laws, to impose an
additional one-Contest penalty on Coaches and/or contestants who, while Coaching
or competing for a PIAA-member school, direct abusive and/or vulgar language
toward an opposing Coach, opposing contestant, or a Contest official.
B. Suspend the Protocol for Approving and Implementing Changes to the
PIAA By-Laws, the PIAA Policies and Procedures, and the Rules and
Regulations contained in the Rules and Regulations Section of the PIAA
Handbook; and amend the soccer tie-breaking procedure, effective immediately
to read as follows:
TIE-BREAKING PROCEDURE
The procedure for determining a winner when a soccer Contest that is being
played in order to advance a Team during a Regular Season Tournament, or to
advance to the Postseason or during a Postseason Contest which ends
regulation play with the score tied shall be as follows:
When the score is tied at the end of regulation time, the referee will instruct both
Teams to return to their respective Team boxes. There will be five minutes
during which both Teams may confer with their Coaches and the head referee
will instruct both Teams as to proper procedure.
1. There shall be no more than two “sudden victory” overtime periods not to
exceed fifteen twenty minutes each:
a. A coin toss shall be held as in NFHS Soccer Rule 5-2-2(d).
b. At the end of the first fifteen twenty-minute “sudden victory” overtime period,
Teams shall change ends.
c. There shall be a two-minute interval between periods.
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6. For the PIAA Soccer Championship (Final) Contests, there shall be no more
than two “sudden victory” overtime periods not to exceed twenty minutes each
before proceeding to penalty kicks.
C. Suspend the Protocol for Approving and Implementing Changes to the
PIAA By-Laws, the PIAA Policies and Procedures, and the Rules and
Regulations contained in the Rules and Regulations Section of the PIAA
Handbook; and provide for a “Mercy Rule”, in the sport of soccer, effective
immediately, to read as follows:
Adopt NFHS Soccer Rule 7-1-5, to provide for running clock after goals, at all levels
(varsity, junior varsity, or otherwise) of competition when one Team gains a 7-goal
differential over its opponent.
XII. Approved PIAA Wrestling Steering Committee Recommendation to:
Suspend the Protocol for Approving and Implementing Changes to the PIAA By-
Laws, the PIAA Policies and Procedures, and the Rules and Regulations
contained in the Rules and Regulations Section of the PIAA Handbook; and
amend ARTICLE XVI, SEASON AND OUT-OF-SEASON RULES AND
REGULATIONS, Table II – Schedule of Winter Sports, NOTE 6, of the PIAA ByLaws,
to provide for a method of counting Regular Season individual
Tournaments, Multiple School (Dual) Events, and Combination Tournaments in
the sport of wrestling, effective July 1, 2012, to read as follows:
TABLE II - Schedule of Winter Sports
Maximum
Number of Maximum Last
Regular Season First Maximum Number of Regular PIAA
Winter Inter-School Regular Length of Regular Season Season District/
Sports Practices or Season Regular Contests Contest Day Region
Scrimmages Contest Day Season (See NOTES 3 & 4) (See NOTE 5) Deadline
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Wrestling 2 19th Day of 11 weeks 22 (See NOTE 6) 97th Day of 97th Day of
Fall Sports’ Winter Sports’ Winter Sports’
Season Season Season
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NOTES:
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6. A PIAA member school is permitted to participate in a maximum of twenty-two
(22) Regular Season wrestling Contests based on the following method of
counting Regular Season wrestling Contests:
a. One (1) Contest for each dual meet or each dual meet wrestled within either a
Multiple School (Dual) Event or Combination Tournament.
b. Two (2) Contests for each triangular meet, or each individually or Team
bracketed Tournaments, or each individual Tournament wrestled within a
Combination Tournament and involving no more than 8 Teams, pursuant to
NFHS Wrestling Rule 10, Conduct of Tournaments, Section 3, Tournament
Brackets,.
c. Three (3) Contests for each quadrangular meet, each individually or Team
bracketed Tournaments, or each individual Tournament wrestled within a
Combination Tournament and involving at least 9 Teams, pursuant to NFHS
Wrestling Rule 10, Conduct of Tournaments, Section 3, Tournament Brackets,
and each one-day Multiple School (Dual) Event or individual pool event.
d. Multiple day Combination Tournament competition points and/or multiple day
Multiple School (Dual) Event competition points are the aggregate of b and/or c.
e. The foregoing must be compliant with NFHS Wrestling Rule 1, Competition,
Section 4, Representation, Article 2, which provides for no wrestler to represent
that wrestler’s school in more than one weight class in any meet or compete in
more than five matches (championship of consolation, including forfeits in any
one day).
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GLOSSARY
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COMBINATION TOURNAMENT: A Multiple School (Dual) Event in each of the
NFHS weight classes in which individuals initially move from round to round as
an interscholastic wrestling Team (pools) or advance based on Team results
culminating in the wrestlers’ placement on an individual bracket with
advancement from that point based on individual results.
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MULTIPLE SCHOOL (DUAL) EVENT: Contests involving three (3) or more
Teams of students representing their schools in interscholastic Team wrestling
competition.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011
XIII. Approved PIAA Football Steering Committee Recommendation to:
Amend, on a first reading basis, ARTICLE XVI, SEASON AND OUT-OFSEASON
RULES AND REGULATIONS, Section 2, Rules and Regulations,
subsection C, Football, sub-subsection 5, of the PIAA By-Laws, to clarify that
participation on a community based non-school affiliated youth football team
does not constitute a violation of sub-subsection 2, provided such participation is
concluded by no later than December 31st, effective July 1, 2012:
ARTICLE XVI
SEASON AND OUT-OF-SEASON
RULES AND REGULATIONS
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Section 2. Rules and Regulations.
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C. Football.
The following sport-specific rules modify the provisions otherwise set forth in this
ARTICLE. To the extent any other provision in this ARTICLE is inconsistent with
this Section, this Section controls.
1. For purposes of this Section, “Physical Contact” shall mean blocking
and/or tackling. “Physical Contact” does not include contact with blocking and/or
tackling dummies, shields, and/or sleds; and/or minimum risk “form” blocking or
tackling.
2. Students who engage in Physical Contact at football camps and/or during
clinics and/or drills, or similar or comparable functions or activities, and/or during
Practices, Inter-School Practices, Scrimmages, and/or Contests, outside the
PIAA-defined football season, shall be ineligible to participate in interscholastic
football for a period of up to one year from the date of such participation.
Coaches assisting and/or supervising in Physical Contact by students from PIAA
member schools, outside the PIAA-defined football season, shall be ineligible to
Coach interscholastic football at any PIAA member school for a period of up to
one year from the date of such conduct.
3. Outside the PIAA-defined football season, the Principal may permit
students of the Principal’s school to use the school’s helmets, shoulder pads, and
shoes for non-Physical Contact skill related instruction supervised by schoolapproved
adults or at instructional camps. This provision is to promote student
safety in football-related activities that do not include Physical Contact.
4. In recognition of the unique circumstances within those PIAA member
schools that are absent of any junior high/middle school interscholastic football
program, students enrolled in and attending those member schools in grades 7
and 8 may annually participate in the out-of-season interscholastic football
program organized and operated as National Football League (NFL) Junior
Player Development. A student’s participation shall be limited to a maximum of
two weeks per year.
5. Nothing in this Section shall prevent any student from participating, up
through the completion of 8th grade, on a community based non-school affiliated
youth football programs team through December 31st completion of that team's
fall regular season and, if applicable, its fall postseason.
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XIV. PIAA By-Laws.
A. Amended, on a second reading basis, ARTICLE II, AMATEUR STATUS
AND AWARDS, Section 3, Permissible Awards, of the PIAA By-Laws, to
authorize PIAA member schools to address issues relating to "pay-to-play"
policies, to read as follows:
ARTICLE II
AMATEUR STATUS AND AWARDS
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Section 3. Permissible Awards.
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F. Participation Fees: Schools charging fees for students to participate in
interscholastic athletics may reduce or waive such fees under the following
circumstances: (1) the Principal may approve a reduction or waiver of the fee
for an individual student who demonstrates financial need; (2) the Principal may
accept a donation of all or part of the fee from a school-affiliated booster club for
an individual student who demonstrates financial need; and/or (3) the Principal
may accept donations from any party which are to be applied pro rata to all
students participating in interscholastic athletics or to all students on a particular
Team. Under no circumstance can any reduction or waiver be tied into the
athletic ability of such students.
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B. Amended, on a second reading basis, ARTICLE II, AMATEUR STATUS
AND AWARDS, Section 3, Permissible Awards, subsection F, Payments to
Schools, of the PIAA By-Laws, to permit PIAA member schools to receive
donations of athletic equipment and/or product consistent with the existing
authorization to accept payments to schools of Consideration, to read as follows:
ARTICLE II
AMATEUR STATUS AND AWARDS
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Section 3. Permissible Awards.
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GF. Donations of Athletic Equipment and/or Product and/or Payments
to Schools: Nothing in this Section should be deemed to prohibit a donor of
athletic equipment and/or product and/or the sponsor of any athletic event or
group of athletic events from providing to a school any Consideration, provided
that such Consideration is not made with the assurance or understanding that all
or some of such Consideration is to be then conveyed by the school to any
individual student-athletes.
HG. College Recruiting: A student may accept from an institution of higher
education which the student visits in connection with the student’s prospective or
possible attendance there as a college student, reasonable expenses
necessitated by such visit, and free admission to home athletic events of such
institution which occur during such visit.
IH. Operation Gold: Consistent with NFHS policy, a student may accept
monies under this program, which provides monetary rewards to athletes who
place in the Olympic Games and/or World Championships in designated sports.
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C. Amended, on a second reading basis, ARTICLE III, ATTENDANCE,
Section 11, Cooperative Sponsorship of a Sport, subsection B, Provisions
Applicable to all Agreements, sub-subsection 2, Requests to Approve
Agreements, sub-sub-subsection (b), and sub-subsection 3, Modification or
Termination of Agreements, sub-sub-subsection (b), Grounds for Determination,
of the PIAA By-Laws, to require that approved agreements be for a duration of at
least a two-year enrollment reclassification cycle, to read as follows:
ARTICLE III
ATTENDANCE
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Section 11. Cooperative Sponsorship of a Sport.
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B. Provisions Applicable to all Agreements.
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2. Requests to Approve Agreements:
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(b) For agreements between public schools within a single public school
district, said requests for approval must include the approving resolution of
the School Board having jurisdiction over the PIAA member schools. For all
other PIAA member schools, said requests for approval must include the
proposed agreement between the participating PIAA member schools. The
resolution or agreement, as applicable, must fully delineate the terms and
conditions that pertain to the Cooperative Sponsorship of a Sport by the
participating PIAA member schools, including at least the following:
(1) Introduction and purpose of agreement.
(2) Timeline for implementation.
(3) Duration of agreement (must be for at least a two-year
enrollment classification cycle).
(43) Administrative responsibility, liability, and insurance.
(54) Team name and uniforms.
(65) Financial arrangements.
(76) Staffing.
(87) Operating procedures.
(98) Facilities.
(109) Transportation.
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3. Modification or Termination of Agreements:
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(b) Grounds for Termination.
(1) Agreements are for at least a two-year enrollment
classification cycle period.
(2) Agreements may be terminated by the PIAA Board of
Directors prior to the expiration of a two-years enrollment
classification cycle under the following conditions:
(a) Closing of one of the schools;
(b) Substantiated complaints from surrounding schools
concerning recruiting by one of the participating PIAA member
schools;
(c) Substantiated complaints from parents, School Boards,
and/or students in one of the participating PIAA member
schools; and/or
(d) Other valid reasons as determined by the PIAA Board of
Directors.
(3) Agreements may be terminated by the PIAA Board of
Directors, after a two-years enrollment classification cycle, upon
request by all parties to the Agreement and the request is absent
good cause for not doing so.
(4) Agreements may be terminated by the PIAA Board of
Directors, after two, four two-years enrollment classification cycles,
upon request by any participant in the Agreement and the request is
absent good cause for not doing so.
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D. Amended, on a second reading basis, ARTICLE VI, TRANSFERS,
RESIDENCE, AND RECRUITING, Section 4, Regional Panel or District
Committee Review, subsection C, Review and Rescission of Presumptive
Eligibility, of the PIAA By-Laws, to reorganize that subsection and rescind the
provision that permits a student to regain eligibility after transferring again during
an already imposed one-year period of ineligibility, to read as follows:
ARTICLE VI
TRANSFERS, RESIDENCE, AND RECRUITING
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Section 4. Regional Panel or District Committee Review.
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C. Review and Rescission of Presumptive Eligibility.
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D. Subsequent Transfer. A student who Transfers again during the oneyear
period of ineligibility shall remain ineligible, in the applicable sports, until the
conclusion of that year, unless the student is declared eligible under this Section.
ED. Transfers which are motivated in some material way by an athletic
purpose are those Transfers which would not have occurred but for a desire of
the student or the student's family (1) to gain additional playing time; (2) to play
for a particular school, Coach, or Team; (3) to avoid either playing for, or athletic
sanctions imposed by, a particular school, Coach, or Team; and/or (4) to gain
increased media or college exposure.
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E. Amended, on a second reading basis, ARTICLE VII, FOREIGN
EXCHANGE STUDENTS, INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, AND FOREIGN
STUDENTS, Section 1, Foreign Exchange Student, subsection 6, and Section 2,
International Student, subsection 4, of the PIAA By-Laws, to require a Foreign
Exchange Student or an International Student, to meet the requirements of
ARTICLE II, AMATEUR STATUS AND AWARDS, of the PIAA By-Laws, to read
as follows:
ARTICLE VII
FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS, INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS, AND FOREIGN STUDENTS
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Section 1. Foreign Exchange Student.
A Foreign Exchange Student is a student who:
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6. meets the requirements of ARTICLE I (the Age Rule), ARTICLE II
(the Amateur Rule), and ARTICLE V (the Comprehensive Initial Pre-Participation
Physical Evaluation [CIPPE] Rule) of the PIAA By-Laws; and
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Section 2. International Student.
An International Student is a student who:
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4. meets the requirements of ARTICLE I (the Age Rule), ARTICLE II
(the Amateur Rule), and ARTICLE V (the Comprehensive Initial Pre-Participation
Physical Evaluation [CIPPE] Rule) of the PIAA By-Laws; and
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F. Amended, on a second reading basis, ARTICLE XX, AMENDMENTS,
of the PIAA By-Laws, to authorize the Executive Director to make technical,
typographical, spelling, and grammatical changes to the PIAA By-Laws, Policies
and Procedures, and/or Rules and Regulations in order to assure editorial
continuity with substantive changes approved by the Board of Directors, and to
delete provisions which have become obsolete, to read as follows:
ARTICLE XX
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. Majority Approval Necessary.
Amendments to these By-Laws must be approved by a two-thirds majority
of the PIAA Board of Directors.
Section 2. Non-Substantive Amendments.
The Executive Director is authorized to make technical, typographical,
spelling, and grammatical changes to the PIAA By-Laws, Policies and
Procedures, and/or Rules and Regulations in order to assure editorial continuity
with substantive changes approved by the Board of Directors, and to delete
provisions which have become obsolete.
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XV. The PIAA Board of Directors took the following action on the
recommendations from the Thursday, December 15, 2011 meeting of the
PIAA Strategic Planning Committee:
A. Tabled until the Thursday, January 26, and Friday, January 27, 2012
meeting of the PIAA Board of Directors either the adoption of or
amendment to the GLOSSARY, of the PIAA By-Laws, to read as follows:
BOUNDARY SCHOOL: All Public Schools.
CHARTER SCHOOL: An independent public school, which is organized
as a non-profit corporation, established and operated under a charter from a local
School Board.
CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL: An independent public school, which is
organized as a non-profit corporation, established and operated under a charter
from the Department of Education, in which the school uses technology to
provide a significant portion of its curriculum and to deliver a significant portion of
instruction to its students through the Internet or other electronic means.
NON-BOUNDARY SCHOOL: All schools that are not Public Schools.
PRIVATE SCHOOL: A nonpublic school that is not an Alternative School,
a Charter School, a Cyber Charter School, a Magnet School, a Public School, or
a Technology School.
PRIVATE SCHOOL’S SCHOOL DISTRICT: A Each Private School,
including each Private senior high School's and its Feeder Schools, shall have its
own “school district”. Regardless of the location of its Feeder Schools, the
geographic boundaries of the Private senior high School’s “school district” shall
be considered the boundaries of the public school district in which it is
geographically located. The Private School's school district and the public school
district are separate school districts.
PUBLIC SCHOOL: A school, which is owned and funded by a Public
School District and governed by a School Board.
PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: An entity created pursuant to the
Pennsylvania Public School Code, which is charged with the responsibility of
public education and which is authorized to assess taxes on properties located
within its geographic boundaries.
B. Failed to amend, on a third and final reading basis, ARTICLE XVI,
SEASON AND OUT-OF-SEASON RULES AND REGULATIONS, Table I -
Schedule of Fall Sports, of the PIAA By-Laws, to 1) authorize PIAA District
Committees to advance the first Regular Season Contest date for football by one
week, for either all member schools within that District or by enrollment
classification within that District, in lieu of a second Inter-School Practice or
Scrimmage, only if that District’s Postseason Tournament, for either all member
schools within that District or by enrollment classification within that District,
begins on or before the 83rd day of the fall sports season; and 2) provide for the
reduction of the Regular Season and Postseason in the sport of football from 16
weekends to 15 weekends, to read as follows:
TABLE I - Schedule of Fall Sports
Maximum
Number of Maximum Last
Regular Season First Maximum Number of Regular PIAA
Fall Inter-School Regular Length of Regular Season Season District/ PIAA
Sports Practices or Season Regular Contests Contest Day Region Championships
Scrimmages Contest Day Season (See NOTES 3 & 4) (See NOTE 5) Deadline Deadline
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Football 2 (See NOTE 8) 19th Day of 9 weeks 10 (See NOTE 98) 83rd Day of 9097th Day of 118125th Day of
Fall Sports’ Fall Sports’ Fall Sports’ Fall Sports’
Season Season Season Season
(See NOTE 8)
NOTES:
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79. With PIAA Board of Directors’ approval, Contests that are required to
be played in order to determine regional qualifying and state championships in
the sport of water polo shall not count toward the maximum number of Regular
Season Contests in that sport and shall be played by the last Regular Season
Contest day in that sport.
8. In lieu of a second Inter-School Practice or Scrimmage, a District
Committee may advance the first Regular Season Contest date for football by
one week for all member schools within that District. Such decision shall be
made only if the District Postseason Tournament is to begin on or before the 83rd
day of the fall sports’ season.
98. A maximum of ten (10) Regular Season football Contests may be played
at the same level (varsity, junior varsity, or otherwise) of competition. With
District Committee approval, member senior high schools may play one (1) or
two (2) additional Regular Season varsity football Contests.
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C. Amended, on a third and final reading basis, ARTICLE XVI, SEASON
AND OUT-OF-SEASON RULES AND REGULATIONS, Table II - Schedule of
Winter Sports, of the PIAA By-Laws, to 1) assume jurisdiction over the girls’ sport
of competitive cheer; and 2) establish PIAA Competitive Cheer Championships
on the Saturday prior to the PIAA Team Wrestling Championships weekend,
effective July 1, 2012, to read as follows:
TABLE II - Schedule of Winter Sports
First Maximum Maximum
Inter- Number of Number of Last
Minimum School Regular Regular Regular
Length of Practice or Season First Season Season
Preseason Scrimmage Inter- Regular Maximum Contests Contest PIAA PIAA
First Practice Day School Season Length of (See Day District/ Champion-
Winter Practice (See (See Practices or Contest Regular NOTES (See Region ships
Sports Day NOTE 1) NOTE 2) Scrimmages Day Season 3 & 4) NOTE 5) Deadline Deadline
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Competitive N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 69th Day of 76th Day of
Cheer Winter Winter
Sports’ Sports’
Season Season
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D. Approved, on a first reading basis, the PIAA District IV Committee
proposed amendments to ARTICLE VI, TRANSFERS, RESIDENCE, AND
RECRUITING, of the PIAA By-Laws,
NEXT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING: 7:00 P.M., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26
AND 8:00 A.M., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012, PIAA OFFICE, MECHANICSBURG, PA.