retired1 wrote:Better read the rules.
I think that it has to be a feeder school- ms to hs and the principal has to sign off on it.
The way I've seen it, it depends on the state. Georgia would probably be a lot more lax than, say, Illinois, regarding whether said 9th grader has to have competed on the team (e.g. could a first year team in a 6th-8th school recruit from 9th graders that have attended the school?)
calvin102111 wrote:Zioly wrote:Can Div. B coaches deny olympians who want to participate in B for 9th grade? My school is going to make the switch from Junior High (7-9) to Middle School (6-8), so is my school going to be eligible for that? I assume so, but I'm not 100% sure.
The coach can determine who is and isn't on their team. However, at my school, our middle school is from 7-8 grade, and we still accept 9th graders from the high school. The rule here (not sure if this is static throughout the country) is a max of 5 ninth graders per division B team.
The rule is almost universally the same, the exceptions possibly being in the one or two states that modify team structure (e.g. North Carolina has 18 people per team, iirc; I don't know whether they've changed the 9th grade rule, though).