TITLE 127 LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA SECONDARY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES COMMISSION SERIES 2 ATHLETICS, PROVISIONS GOVERNING ELIGIBILITY
§127-2-1. General. 1.1. Scope. -- These rules establish the provisions governing student eligibility to participate in interscholastic athletics.
1.2. Authority. -- W. Va. Constitution, Article XII, §2, and W. Va. Code §18-2-5 and §18-2-25 et seq.
1.3. Filing Date. -- July 9, 2025.
1.4. Effective Date. -- August 8, 2025.
1.5. Repeal of Former Rule. -- This legislative rule amends W. Va. 127CSR2, West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission Series 2, Athletics, Provisions Governing Eligibility, filed July 8, 2024, and effective September 6, 2024. §127-2-2. Waivers. 2.1. The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (WVSSAC/Commission) Board of Directors (Board of Directors) is authorized to grant a waiver to a rule when it determines the rule fails to accomplish the purpose for which it is intended or when the rule causes extreme and undue hardship upon the student.
2.2. Speculative loss of college scholarship is not considered a basis for granting a waiver to these rules.
§127-2-3. Enrollment and Team Membership. 3.1. To be eligible for participation in interscholastic athletics,
3.1.a. a student must be enrolled full-time in a member school and meet all other eligibility rules that apply. Enrollment must be continuous after the student has enrolled in the school, or
3.1.b. a student must comply with W. Va. Code §18-2-25, section (d), and meet all other eligibility rules that apply, or
3.1.c. a student must comply with W. Va. Code §18-2-25, section (e), and meet all other eligibility rules that apply.
3.2. A waiver, as pursuant to §127-2-2, may be granted by the Board of Directors as follows:
3.2.a. for students from the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (WVSDB) to participate at Hampshire High School or Romney Middle School (only in sports not available at WVSDB). 3.2.b. Member schools containing grades 6 and/or 7 and/or 8 may combine students from two or more schools within the county or regional area to form one interscholastic team in a sport. Individual sports can co-op if the individual sport has less than enough to make up a team. Requests for permission to combine students from two or more schools in the same private/parochial or public school system must be submitted annually to the WVSSAC in writing by the superintendent of the private/parochial or public school system. Schools which are combining to form one
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