The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District took a step to simplify the Soldotna schools reconfiguration by filing for a blanket waiver for athletes transferring from Skyview High School.
Director of Secondary Education and Student Activities John O’Brien said that normally to immediately participate in ASAA sports after transferring schools a student would have to apply for a waiver.
O’Brien: “So we kind of took a proactive measure on that and put a proposal in to ASAA to consider a blanket waiver for all of Skyview’s current 9th, 10th and 11th grade students who are going to be with us next year so those students won’t individually have to apply to ASAA for a waiver, they simply will establish their new school of eligibility by either participating in their August sports or after enrollment for 15 days at their new school of eligibility.”
He clarified that this blanket rule only applies to students finishing out the 2013-14 school year at Skyview.
O’Brien added that 9th graders attending Soldotna Prep will be playing sports as Soldotna High School.
O’Brien: “Those students for ASAA purposes for enrollment and classification those students are counted as Soldotna High School students for ASAA participation. So any student next year attending Soldotna Prep, the school that they will play sports or ASAA activities for will be Soldotna High School.”
