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CISAA -  Notice of Motion -  to be considered at April 24^th Spring Meeting.

Current Policy – Section D – Eligibility

D.                 ELIGIBILITY

 

1.                     All questions regarding eligibility of players except as herein provided, must be referred to an eligibility committee that shall consist of the Executive Committee.

 

2.

a)      The competitor must be a bona fide student of a Calgary ISAA member school.  A student becomes a bona fide student of a school on the first day of classes beginning the term of semester in the school in which he is registered.  In the case of transfer from one school to another, the student shall become a bona fide student in the new school upon the date of his first attendance of his transfer-in by the Principal and when the ASAA transfer form is completed in its entirety.

 

b)    The competitor must be registered in a minimum of 800 instructional minutes per week for which departmental credits are granted.  Correspondence courses can be included as instructional minutes for students registered at “A” classified schools.

 

c)     The Senior High competitor must be under the age of nineteen years on September 1^st of the school year.  The Junior High competitor must be under the age of seventeen years on September 1^st of the school year he is enrolled in.

 

d)    It must be the opinion of the principal of the school that it is in the best interest of the competitor, and of the school board as a whole, for him or her to participate.

 

 

e)    Any student who is or has been registered and in attendance at a post-secondary institution shall not be eligible for high school competition.

 

3.             Students shall be eligible for three years competition after registering in Grade 10, following the policies of the ASAA.

 

1.                     In “A” classified schools, Grade 9 students may be registered for participation in basketball and volleyball at the ISAA competition.

 

5.             The Principal of each school shall be responsible for the eligibility of the school’s competitors for any competition.

 

6.                   No competitor may represent his school in the same sport, in junior and senior high Calgary ISAA competitions in one school year.  All games will be defaulted if this occurs.

 

7.                    Only 1J school players can play in the 7/8 league AND the grade 9 league.

 

8.                    1J schools may apply, in writing, to the CISAA executive to request participation of grade 6 students for Jr. High CISAA competition. The request must include and acceptable risk agreement from the child’s parent as well as from the administration of the school. Each case will be examined individually as a special request for the present school year.

 

9.                   Players from 1J schools may play up from the Grade 7 or 7/8 leagues to the Grade 9 league, when circumstances dictate, to a maximum of 5 games. After a sixth competition (or portion thereof) a player is deemed ineligible for Grade 7 or 7/8 competition.\

 

10.                 Players are eligible to participate in only one CISAA championship competition per sporting season.

 

 

Proposed Policy on Athlete Eligibility -  Including Updates and Enhancements

 

E.                  ELIGIBILITY

 

1.                     All questions regarding eligibility of players except as herein provided, must be referred to an eligibility committee that shall consist of the Executive Committee.

 

2.

a)     At the high school level, an athlete must meet all eligibility requirements outlined in the ASAA Policy Handbook.

 

b)      The competitor must be a bona fide student of a Calgary ISAA member school.  A student becomes a bona fide student of a school on the first day of classes beginning the term of semester in the school in which he is registered.  In the case of transfer from one school to another, the student shall become a bona fide student in the new school upon the date of his first attendance of his transfer-in by the Principal and when the ASAA transfer form is completed in its entirety.

 

b)    The competitor must be registered in a minimum of 800 instructional minutes per week for which departmental credits are granted.  Correspondence courses can be included as instructional minutes for students registered at “A” classified schools.

 

c)     The Senior High competitor must be under the age of nineteen years on September 1^st of the school year.  The Junior High competitor must be under the age of seventeen years on September 1^st of the school year he is enrolled in.

 

d)    It must be the opinion of the principal of the school that it is in the best interest of the competitor, and of the school board as a whole, for him or her to participate.

 

e)    Any student who is or has been registered and in attendance at a post-secondary institution shall not be eligible for high school competition.

 

3.             Students shall be eligible for three years competition after registering in Grade 10, following the policies of the ASAA.

 

4.               In “A” classified schools, Grade 9 students may be registered for participation in team sports -   volleyball, basketball, team handball, rugby, and soccer at the CISAA competitions.  

 

5.              For team sports:

 

       Grade 7 students are eligible to compete on Grade 7,  Grade 7/8, or Grade 8/9 teams.

 

                Grade 8 students are eligible to compete on Grade 7/8, or Grade 8/9 teams.

 

                Grade 9 students are eligible to compete on Grade 8/9, or JV teams.   1A schools are permitted to have on-site Grade 9’s play on varsity teams.   

 

                Grade 10 & 11 Students are eligible to compete on JV or SV teams.

 

                Grade 12 students are only eligible to compete on SV teams. 

 

                Students at all CISAA schools are only permitted to be on the roster of 1 school based team per sports season.     Students on “lower level teams” are eligible to be called up when the higher level team is short players to a maximum of two games per season.   If a student is called up a third time, they lose all eligibility at the lower level.   E.g.  a Grade 8 student who is on the roster of a 7/8 team, can only play 2 games for the 8/9 team over the season.  This includes all CISAA competition, tournaments, etc. 

 

1J schools have a higher maximum on this:  Players from 1J schools may play up from the Grade 7 or 7/8 leagues to the Grade 9 league, when circumstances dictate, to a maximum of 5 games. After a sixth competition (or portion thereof) a player is deemed ineligible for Grade 7 or 7/8 competition.\

 

                If a lower level team is eliminated and their season is over, students are eligible to be added to the higher level teams roster for the duration of the season.    E.g.  If an 8/9 volleyball team is eliminated, a 1A Grade 9 student can join the roster of the high school team for the duration of the season, or when a JV team is eliminated, players can be added to the Senior team. 

 

                In the event of a school having two teams in the same league, students must only be on the roster of one team. 

 

6.               The Principal of each school shall be responsible for the eligibility of the school’s     competitors for any competition.

 

7.                    No competitor may represent his school in the same sport, in junior and senior high Calgary ISAA competitions in one school year.  All games will be defaulted if this occurs.  The only exception to this would be a Grade 9 student being added to a SV roster at a 1A school upon completion of the 8/9 season. 

 

 

8.                    1J schools may apply, in writing, to the CISAA executive to request participation of grade 6 students for Jr. High CISAA competition. The request must include and acceptable risk agreement from the child’s parent as well as from the administration of the school. Each case will be examined individually as a special request for the present school year.

 

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Notice of Motion April
24,2013
Policy – Section (C), Item (3) ’
Sport Commissioners’, page (3)
Current:
1. ‘SPORT COMMISSIONERS’
The conditions of appointment of Sports Commissioners shall be as follows:
∙ Appointments to the roster of sport commissioners shall be ratified by the
general membership.
∙ They shall be appointed from among the school staff members of Calgary
ISAA member schools.
∙ Commissioners shall serve for a period of two seasons of play.
∙ Commissioners shall be selected at the spring meeting for the following
year.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF SPORT COMMISSIONER
The duties and responsibilities of Commissioners shall include the following:
a) Before the season starts, coordinate a coach’s meeting once a year.
b) Review all policies regarding the sport and make recommendations for change to the general
meeting.
c) Be familiar with new developments in rules, equipment, coaching techniques, etc.
d) Motivating the furthering of their sports through the use of newsletters, talks and other forms of
publicity and promotion.
e) Ensuring that the records are recorded and yearly reports are written and forwarded to
the Sports Coordinator.
f) In competitions where medals are required, commissioners must order medals from the
Calgary ISAA, and engrave with the appropriate sport, division, and year. Commissioners are
responsible to ensure awards are presented at the championships.
g) The Sr. High School commissioner is responsible to organize an AllStar
games for Volleyball
and Basketball during their leagues season of play.

Proposed:
The appointment of the Junior High and Senior High League Sports Commissioner shall be
as follows:

Appointment
of a Junior High and Senior High League Sports Commissioner shall be
voted on by the general membership at the spring meeting alternating years
The Junior High and Senior High League Sports Commissioner will serve in the league for
two years
The Junior High and Senior High League Sports Commissioner will be elected from the
school staff members of Calgary ISAA member schools.
The Junior High and Senior High League Sports Commissioner will hold a position on the
Executive Committee with a honorarium established by the Senior High President, Junior High
VicePresident and Treasurer prior to each electing Spring meeting
The Junior High and Senior High League Sports Commissioner would work in conjunction
with the Sports Coordinator
The distribution of Championship Banners and Medals will be conducted by a staff of the host
school (Jr High and Sr High Sports Commissioner would not be able to be in multiple venues
in one evening)

Rationale:
Currently we have individual sports commissioners for each level (or some
combination of 1J, 2J, 3J/4J and then Tier 1 and Tier 2 and/or JV) and in each sport.
Currently it appears a great majority of the sport commissioner(s)responsibilities are
being performed by the Sports Coordinator and other Executive members (securing
venues, booking officials, handling issues that arise, ordering/distributing
banners/medals, trophy locating, etc)
The sport commissioner will be responsible for all sports at all levels 1
Junior High and 1 Senior High
This could be a step to a more consistent, more structured student athletic program in
all sports in both junior and senior high Each League Sports Commissioner would work in conjunction with the Sports
Coordinator

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CISAA Policies E4. Team Competition and Player participation

 

a)       In Calgary ISAA, Zone and Provincial competition, a school may elect to enter a team in a given activity in the classification above or below its school classification while still retaining its right to enter teams in other activities in the proper classification of the school.

 

 

 

b)       For volleyball, basketball and soccer, JV teams must play in Division 2.

 

 

 

c)       In Senior Volleyball, Basketball and Soccer, Schools may choose to enter Tier 1 or Tier 2 competition. JV can only compete in Tier 2.  Each school will be eligible for banners and medals for each Tier.

 

d)       End of season challenge games or playoffs will be used determine provinicial representation.  Schools will then challenge for their registered Division (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A)

 

 

 

 

 

The CISAA should not be making policy regarding Zone or Provincial competition. Part a) should be revised. Part a) and c) seem to be in direct conflict with each other

 

 

 

If E4C has not been changed, then we have not been running our Sr High leagues properly. If the policy has been changed, then it should be updated on the CISAA website. If this policy has been changed, then I would like to submit the following notice of Motion:

 

 

 

 

 

CISAA Policies E4c

 

 

 

Present:

 

 

 

1A schools who opt into Division 1 can only do so if they opt into 2A, 3A, or 4A at the ASAA level.

 

 

 

Proposed: 1A schools that want to have competition and playoff participation for CISAA Tier 1 championships (or Division 1 as the CISAA executive labels) must opt up to 2A, or higher classification, at the ASAA level for that team.

 

 

 

Rationale: This was the original policy with the CISAA. The role of the CISAA is to provide fair competition based on the norms of accepted league play. The CISAA should not be playing the role of providing competition that a ‘school’ deems appropriate. The natural provision for fair competition is based on school population as set out by the ASAA. Although the CISAA provides some flexibility for teams that wish to opt down, in exhibition status, allowing teams to opt up in ASAA category but still compete for Zone championships at their designated category is not providing fair competition. On average, larger schools will have a better level of competition. Allowing a 1A school to compete at a 2A level, but also competing for 1A zone representation is an unfair advantage over the other 1A schools. The 2A schools are gaining no benefit from competing against 1A schools in regards to provincial rankings, as these statistics are not considered very highly by the ranking committee members. Any advantage gained for a 2A school playing a 1A school would be specific to the teams involved, and could easily be attained through exhibition games, rather than forced league play. Especially when it forces 2A schools to miss having a double round robin league.

 

The role of the CISAA should be providing fair competition, not better competition. If a school desires better competition, the ASAA provides numerous tournament opportunities to fill their season schedule.

 

 

 

 

 

Notice of Motion Structure:

Policy – Section (), Item (), page ()
Current: submit current policy (if no policy exists, skip this and just put Add to read: instead of Proposed:)

Proposed: write the proposed wording

Rationale: all notices must have accompanying rationale including reference to any financial implications where applicable. Changes/additions to the current policy must be italicized.

Example:

Policy - Section III -Eligibility- Item E. Transfer Policy, page 43
Current:
3.b) A signed statement from at least one parent or legal guardian stating that the primary reason for the transfer is for an educational purpose and that the transfer is not being made primarily for an athletic purpose or primarily so that the student can participate in athletics; and

Proposed:
3.b) A signed statement from at least one parent or legal guardian stating that the primary reason for the transfer is for an educational purpose and that the transfer is not being made primarily for an athletic purpose or primarily so that the student can participate in athletics. The educational purpose shall be related to the student accessing Alberta Education credits at the proposed school that are not available at his/her current school.

Rationale:
On occasion, the Executive is asked to consider appeals of the transfer policy where the principal and/or athletic director of the sending school choose not to sign the transfer form because they believe the transfer is for athletically motivated reasons. When the appeal comes forth, the receiving school and the student and/or parents provide rationale for the transfer that extends to things like the student wanting to be with his/her friends or the student wanting to be taught by a certain teacher. The Executive wants clear direction from the Board regarding the definition of educational purpose and how it should be applied to such appeals.

Notices of motion can come from any of the following:
• Member schools (schools should notify their zone secretary if they are submitting something)
• Commissioners

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