The administrative authority of this association shall be vested in a Board of Directors of ten (10) members elected, each for a term of three years, as
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The office of the Association shall be the office of the Board of Directors. - answer 1.310
They shall be doing passing work in at least twenty five (25) credit hours of high school work per week.
Physical Education can be used as a .50 credit class to meet the 25 credit hour requirement, even if the member school is giving academic credit less than .50 or no credit at all. Students must be passing Physical Education in order to use the class towards academic eligibility.
Schools that offer only five classes per day may request a waiver annually from the IHSA Board of Directors to require the passing of at least twenty (20) credit hours of high school work per week to be eligible for participation.
They shall, unless they are entering high school for the first time, have credit on the school records for twenty five (25) credit hours of high school work for the previous semester. Such work shall have been completed in the semester for which credit is granted or in a recognized summer school program which has - answer c. 3.022
d. 3.021
A student must attend a member school and may only represent in interscholastic competition the member school the student attends. For purposes of this by-law, the term "attend" shall mean that the student is enrolled at the member school, and is taking at, or under arrangements approved by the member school, a minimum of twenty five (25) credit hours of work for which credit toward high school graduation will be granted by the member school upon the student's completing and passing the courses. The school which enrolls the student shall be exclusively responsible to verify the student's compliance with all of the eligibility requirements of all IHSA by-laws.
The Board of Directors shall have the discretion to waive the requirement of this by-law for the Illinois schools for the deaf or blind. In unit systems having a 6-3-3 or 6-4-2 type of organization, ninth grade students may participate on senior high school athl - answer 3.011 4.011
Name and Objectives
In the performance of these functions, the objectives of the Association shall be:
a.) to stress the educational importance, the cultural values, the appreciations and skills involved in all interscholastic activities and to promote cooperation and friendship;
b.) to regulate interscholastic programs in both character and quantity in regard to the generally accepted objectives of secondary education and so they shall not unduly interfere with nor abridge the regular program of teachers and students in the performance of their regular day-to-day school duties;
c.) to encourage economy in the time of the student and teacher personnel devoted to interscholastic activities;
d.) to encourage economy in expenses of interscholastic activities; and
e.) to promote only those activities which enhance the accomplishment of desired educational goals. - answer 1.140
Foreign Exchange Eligibility
International and Foreign Exchange Students: Students attending school in Illinois under the auspices of approved student exchange programs shall be considered eligible regarding residence and transfer for a maximum period of one calendar year, commencing with the date of their enrollment and beginning attendance at an IHSA member school. To be considered for approval, a foreign exchange program must be approved by the IHSA and the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET). It must also assign students to schools by a method which insures that no student, school, or other interested party may influence the assignment for athletic or other purposes. The Board of Directors shall establish additional criteria by which it shall approve foreign exchange student programs. International students attending school in Illinois who are not participating in an approved student - answer 3.034.3
Special Education Students
Special Education and Special Vocational Education Students: Students attending a Special Education or Special Vocational Educational Cooperative Center, shall be eligible under the following conditions:
Students taking part of their work at the Special Center and part at their home high school shall be eligible at their home high school only;
Students taking all of their work at the Special Center shall be eligible at either their home high school or the school housing the Special Center. However, once the students elect the school at which they will participate, they may not change their decision without the loss of a period of eligibility not to exceed 365 days. - answer b. 3.034.4
c. 3.034.41
d. 3.034.42
Classification
Guidelines and regulations for classification of non-boundaried schools are applied to all non-boundaried schools. A non-boundaried school is defined as any private school, charter school, lab school, magnet school, residential school, and any public school in a multi-high school district that does not accept students from a fixed portion of the district. - answer 2.160
Recruitment of Athletes
It shall be a violation of this rule for any student athlete to receive or be offered any remunerations of any kind or to receive or be offered any special inducement of any kind which is not made available to all applicants who enroll in the school or apply to the school.
Special inducement shall include, but not be limited to:
1) Offer or acceptance of money or other valuable consideration such as free or reduced tuition during the regular year or summer school by anyone connected with the school. (Exception - private schools may waive tuition for children of faculty members, as a benefit of employment, provided there is no undue influence exerted upon the student or the family to attend the school.)
2) Offer or acceptance of room, board or clothing or financial allotment for clothing.
3) Offer or acceptance of pay for work that is not performed or that is in excess of the amount regularly p - answer b. 3.072
Amateurism
A student in a member school may accept any other award for participation in an athletic contest, or for athletic honors or recognition, which does not exceed $75 in fair market value, in the following sports: badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, and any other sport in which the student's school provides interscholastic competition. In addition, a student in a member school may receive and retain items of wearing apparel which are worn for non-school athletic competition as part of a team uniform provided for and worn by the student during competition. - answer 3.083
Independent Team Participation
To be eligible for a school team in a given sport, students must cease non-school practice and competition in that sport no later than seven (7) days after the date on which the school team engages in its first practice or tryout in that sport. - answer 3.106
Coaching School Participation
During the school year, a person who is a coach at any member school may not be involved in any respect with any coaching school, camp, or clinic for any interscholastic sport or which provides instruction in any skill of an interscholastic sport and is attended by more than two (2) persons from the coach's school. Violation shall cause ineligibility for a period not to exceed 365 days. Programs that involve only demonstration of skills and sports theory without providing instruction and requiring active participation by attendees are not considered coaching schools.
Students may attend a coaching school, camp or clinic during the summer months provided they do not attend before school is out in the spring or after Sunday of Week Number 5 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar. Such coaching schools, camps and clinics may be conducted by an individual, group or even a member school and instru - answer all of these
All-Star Participation
No student at a member school shall participate on an all-star team in basketball, football, soccer or volleyball during the student's high school career until completing their interscholastic athletic eligibility in that particular sport. A student may participate in no more than three (3) all-star contests in a sport. - answer 3.121
Use of Players
Only bona fide students of a school may participate in a practice session for any interscholastic team sponsored by that member school. - answer 3.132
ecial Provisions for Summer Participation
Participation by high school students in summer programs must be voluntary and in no way be an actual or implied prerequisite for membership on a high school team.
Students may participate in summer baseball/softball leagues sponsored by schools, during the period between Monday of Week 44 and Saturday of Week 7 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar.
Persons who coach a sport at a member school may have a maximum of 25 days of contact in that sport with students from that school during the period between the last day of classes or Monday of Week 49 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar (whichever date is earlier) in the spring each year and Sunday of Week 5 in the IHSA Standardized Calendar. Additionally, there may be no contact during the mandatory "Dead Week" for either Week 52 or Week 1 (whichever week encompasses the July 4th holiday) of the IHSA Standardized Calendar. This "Dead - answer 3.151 through 3.157
Open Gym Limitations
Schools may open their facilities, including off-site facilities that are used during particular athletic seasons, for recreational activities to students or other persons who reside in or outside their district, under the following conditions:
a) A variety of recreational activities are available during the course of the year.
b) There is no coaching or instruction in the skills and techniques in any sport at any time.
c) Participation is voluntary and is not required directly or indirectly for membership on a high school squad.
d) Comparable opportunities are afforded to all participants. - answer 3.161
Transfer
After the official start date of an IHSA sport season for the current school year, if a student changes attendance from that high school to another high school, the student shall be ineligible for the remainder of the school year in any sport in which he/she participated or was participating in a practice or interscholastic contest in the current school year a the school from which the transfer occurs; or
Once classes begin in a school for the current school year, if a student changes attendance from that high school to another high school, the student shall be ineligible for a period of thirty days, commencing on the first day of attendance at the new high school, in any sport in which he/she was not participating or had not participated during the current school year at the school from which the student transferred. - answer 3.042
Transfer
The member school to which a student transfers shall enforce any period of ineligibility imposed or that would have been imposed upon the student by the school from which the student is transferring, even if the student is otherwise eligible under these by-laws. The period of ineligibility at the school to which the student transfers shall be the remaining duration of the period of ineligibility imposed or that would have been imposed had the student not transferred, but not longer than 365 days after the date of the transfer, whichever is less. - answer 3.047
Age
A student shall be eligible through age nineteen (19) unless the student shall become twenty (20) during a sport season, in which event eligibility shall terminate on the first day of such season (as the season is defined in Section 5.000 of these By-laws). - answer 3.061
Residence
A student's eligibility is contingent upon the student meeting the applicable criteria from Sections 3.031-3.034 below. Except as provided in Section 6.010 of these by-laws, a student who does not comply with the applicable provisions of Sections 3.031-3.034 of these by-laws shall be ineligible for a period not to exceed 365 days. Once a student has attended high school, any change of the school attended by the student shall subject that student to the requirements of the rules applicable to transfers under Section 3.040 of these by-laws and its subsections. - answer 3.030
Residence
They reside full time with their parents, custodial parent or guardian appointed by a judge of a court having proper jurisdiction, or they currently and for at least the last two years prior to the student's enrolling in high school, have lived with another family member or relative who has provided full support and adult supervision for the student, as though they were the guardian, within the boundaries of the attendance area of the high school they attend is located; or
They reside full time with their parents, custodial parent or guardian appointed by a judge of a court having proper jurisdiction, and have attended a minimum of the seventh and eighth grades as tuition-paying non-resident students in the district in which the high school they attend is located.
They reside full time with one birth or adoptive parent or other relative without assignment of custody or legal guardianship by the court, provi - answer all of these
Sportsmanship of School Representatives
Students, school staff, boards of education, spectators and all other persons connected directly or indirectly with a member school shall practice and promote the highest principles of sportsmanship and the ethics of competition in all interscholastic relationships. The Executive Director shall have authority to investigate allegations and incidents of unsportsmanlike conduct or conduct which adversely affects the ethics of competition in connection with interscholastic contests. The Executive Director shall also have full authority to invoke penalties, in the context of the provisions of Division 6.000 of these By-laws, against a member school and/or individuals whose conduct in connection with an interscholastic contest violates these principles or ethics. - answer 2.041
Schools With Which Contests May Be Held
Member schools may permit eligible students to participate in competitive activities as school representatives only with the following:
a) schools which are members of this Association;
b) schools which are members of an athletic or activities association in another state which is recognized by the Board of Directors of this Association;
c) schools which are not members of this Association but are approved for interscholastic participation by the Board of Directors of this Association;
d) schools which are not members of an athletic or activities association in another state but are approved for interscholastic participation by such an association;
e) junior high schools, provided that in any event other than a dual contest, only eligible ninth grade students represent the junior high school; and
f) cooperative athletic teams approved by the Board of Directors under the provisi - answer 2.050
Compliance With Rules
a) Members of this Association must comply with the rules as stipulated in the Constitution and By-laws of the Association in all matters pertaining to athletic and activity programs, competitions and other events, with or against any other school, whether it is a member or non-member of the Association.
b) All interscholastic athletic games, meets and contests participated in by IHSA member schools shall be governed only by the rules written or officially adopted for those respective sports by the National Federation of State High School Association and modified by the IHSA. - answer it is not 2.030
Selection of Licensed Officials
All major officials for athletic contests must be licensed with the IHSA in the sport the individual is to officiate, except that in the event contracted officials do not appear for a contest below varsity level, and with mutual consent by all competing schools, members of the coaching staff, faculty, and/or administrative staff of any of the competing schools may officiate the contest. The Board of Directors shall be responsible to establish policies and procedures governing the licensing process.
The names of game officials for each interscholastic athletic contest must be submitted by the host school to the visiting school not later than five school days before such contest and must be mutually agreed upon not later than the night preceding the contest. - answer 2.080
Qualifications of Coaches
To serve a member school as a Head or Assistant Coach, athletic coaches in member schools must:
a) be regularly certified by the ISBE as a teacher, administrator, or school service personnel (i.e. counselor, social worker, speech therapist, etc., including substitute teachers), or
b) be a retired teacher/coach from an IHSA member school, or
c) be a college student coaching as part of an official student teaching assignment, or
d) be certified through ASEP, NFHS or other IHSA Board approved coaches certification program (see IHSA Policy Number 9 for a complete list of approved programs), and
e) be at least 19 years of age, and
f) be officially employed by the local school board of the member school.
All remuneration for high school athletic coaching must be from the Board of Education of the member school employing the coach. - answer 2.070
2.071
Feedback from others on how they see and react to a coach is a good way to increase the coach's self-awareness.
Answer: A - answer a. true
b. false
A good way to develop a coaching philosophy is to make as many people happy as possible.
Answer: B - answer a. true
b. false
What is the drawback when a coach bases her self-esteem on wins and losses in competition?
Answer: E - answer a. The coach loses more athletic events.
b. The distance between the coach's public self and her real self increases.
c. Her athletes perceive the coach as weak when she loses.
d. The coach gains some control of her self-esteem.
e. The coach loses some control of her self-esteem.
In order for coaches and athletes to keep winning in proper perspective, what goal should they emphasize?
Answer: E - answer a. avoiding losses to less skilled opponents
b. being rewarded for winning
c. learning how to win consistently
d. learning how to lose without complaint
e. striving to win
What does the coaching philosophy "Athletes first, winning second" emphasize?
Answer: D - answer a. Competitive sports for adolescents should be eliminated.
b. Cooperative games in which no score is kept are more important to athletes than winning.
c. Winning is important only after athletes have matured.
d. Winning must be kept in perspective by a greater concern for the development of the athletes.
e. b and c
The motto "Athletes first, winning second" suggests that winning should be a low priority for a team.
Answer: B - answer a. true
b. false
When athletes and coaching assistants are empowered, they are more likely to believe they are making a positive contribution to the team.
Answer: A - answer a. true
b. false
When a coach permits athletes to make most of the decisions, encourages them to just play and have a good time, and avoids dealing with discipline problems, what is the coach's primary coaching style?
Answer: E - answer a. command style
b. cooperative style
c. games style
d. integrated style
e. submissive style
When a coach makes winning the primary objective even when it stifles the athletes' motivation and enjoyment, what is the coach's primary coaching style?
Answer: B - answer a. games style
b. command style
c. cooperative style
d. integrated style
e. submissive style
The submissive style of coaching assumes the coach knows when to direct the athletes and when to allow the athletes to make decisions for themselves.
Answer: B - answer a. true
b. false
As defined by Thomas Lickona, good character consists of three attributes. The first two are knowing the good and desiring the good. What is the third attribute?
Answer: B - answer a. believing the good
b. doing the good
c. encouraging the good
d. rewarding the good
e. focusing on the good
A coach is likely to have the greatest effect on athletes' lives by teaching them about
Answer: A - answer a. character development
b. proficiency in technical skills
c. proficiency in tactical skills
d. physical conditioning
e. b and c
When mild hazing causes no physical discomfort, it is a harmless initiation ritual that helps to build team cohesiveness.
Answer: B - answer a. true
b. false
When athletes demonstrate appropriate ethical behavior, the coach should reward the behavior even if it is not exactly what the coach would have demonstrated.
Answer: A - answer a. true
b. false
What should a coach do when working with an athlete with a disability?
Answer: E - answer a. Focus the coaching on what the athlete cannot do.
b. Increase the competitive risks and failures the athlete has to deal with.
c. Treat the athlete as more special than other athletes who are not disabled.
d. Assist the athlete even when she does not request assistance.
e. Disqualify the athlete if her disability creates a high risk to her well-being.
The expectations of teachers and coaches can affect how athletes with low self-esteem tend to perform.
Answer: A - answer a. true
b. false
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