Why Knox Catholic should be private

[Shelia]

Is this worse than what Brentwood Academy was doing?

 

Reported in the Knoxville Newspaper today.

 

Nationally ranked 5th grade wrestler practices, workouts out, AND wrestles in an exhibition match for Knoxville Catholic High School. The 5th grader is a student at AL Lotts, a public school, not a Catholic school and certainly not a feeder school. How can this be on the up and up?

 

Thoughts?

[mtnman]

Knox Catholic is private.

 

If you mean they should be DII, it wouldn't matter. Sounds like it is still illegal. Haven't read the article just going by what you said.

[BigG]

I went back and read the article (it was more of a "county bulliten board" than an article; which is why I don't think you can find it online). It was praising this young man from battling back from having a bad case of MRSA and almost losing some fingers, to winning some tournaments. It then mentioned him working out with Catholics varsity wrestling team. It didn't go in to great detail about that, so it is kind of hard to speculate. I don't know how wrestling works, but I would assume that it has the same rules and regulations as the rest of the sports.

[rhino171717]

Is this worse than what Brentwood Academy was doing?

 

Reported in the Knoxville Newspaper today.

 

Nationally ranked 5th grade wrestler practices, workouts out, AND wrestles in an exhibition match for Knoxville Catholic High School. The 5th grader is a student at AL Lotts, a public school, not a Catholic school and certainly not a feeder school. How can this be on the up and up?

 

Thoughts?

 

 

A note to clear the air.

The kid in questions is coached by the High School coach in their youth program and wrestles other youth kids. Next year he will attend a feeder school and has played other sports under the Catholic youth programs. These practices are open to other youth wrestlers that would like to participate on the Catholic Youth Team.

[Shelia]

A note to clear the air.The kid in questions is coached by the High School coach in their youth program and wrestles other youth kids. Next year he will attend a feeder school and has played other sports under the Catholic youth programs. These practices are open to other youth wrestlers that would like to participate on the Catholic Youth Team.

Well that is certainly not what the kid's mother said. " He practices with Knoxville Catholic's HIGH SCHOOL team and even won an exhibition match". I heard today that the TSSAA is already looking into this.The air is anything but clear.

Well that is certainly not what the kid's mother said. " He practices with Knoxville Catholic's HIGH SCHOOL team and even won an exhibition match". I heard today that the TSSAA is already looking into this.The air is anything but clear.

I wonder if Knoxville Catholic self reported when they saw the article?

[Baldcoach]

Well that is certainly not what the kid's mother said. " He practices with Knoxville Catholic's HIGH SCHOOL team and even won an exhibition match". I heard today that the TSSAA is already looking into this.The air is anything but clear.I wonder if Knoxville Catholic self reported when they saw the article?

 

 

Since the TSSAA does not have elementary sports I'm thinking that elementary kids can't be held accountable for TSSAA rules unless they are 'brought up' to play at a varsity level (which I don't think it is possible to do).

[jvaughan]

I am assuming the match he wrestled in was either before, during, or after a high school match. Any who, it was an exhibition match and surely was against a kid either his age, size, class whatever and was an exhibition so really that shouldn't matter. There are a lot of schools that have Pee Wee basketball games at half times of high school games. As long as the kid is wrestling in an actual high school match, it shouldn't matter. Just in case it comes up about younger students participating with high schools, 8th graders may participate in high school sports and 7th graders may participate in non contact sports (golf, tennis) as long as the high school and middle/Jr High is the same campus. (K-12 school or a 7-12 school)

 

As for him practicing, workout etc. not sure on the rule for that. I would think as long as he attends a feeder school (at this point, not next year) it would be ok but who knows.

[zonepirate]

I am assuming the match he wrestled in was either before, during, or after a high school match. Any who, it was an exhibition match and surely was against a kid either his age, size, class whatever and was an exhibition so really that shouldn't matter. There are a lot of schools that have Pee Wee basketball games at half times of high school games. As long as the kid is wrestling in an actual high school match, it shouldn't matter. Just in case it comes up about younger students participating with high schools, 8th graders may participate in high school sports and 7th graders may participate in non contact sports (golf, tennis) as long as the high school and middle/Jr High is the same campus. (K-12 school or a 7-12 school)

 

As for him practicing, workout etc. not sure on the rule for that. I would think as long as he attends a feeder school (at this point, not next year) it would be ok but who knows.

 

 

If he is practicing with the varsity when not enrolled then Catholic could be in big trouble. Think Temple

[bud]

I think the TSSAA rules are pretty clear. It does not matter how old a kid is. There can still be illegal conduct by a participating TSSAA member school. Hope not here for the good of Knox Catholic though. I hope this is not an entire new legal issue that must be argued and taken before the Supreme Court. Maybe we should just go ahead and litigate whether it is OK for a school to talk to a pregnant mother or not and be done with it!

[PBandJ]

I think the TSSAA rules are pretty clear. It does not matter how old a kid is. There can still be illegal conduct by a participating TSSAA member school. Hope not here for the good of Knox Catholic though. I hope this is not an entire new legal issue that must be argued and taken before the Supreme Court. Maybe we should just go ahead and litigate whether it is OK for a school to talk to a pregnant mother or not and be done with it!

 

TSSAA rules are clear for high school level participation, but they have zero bearing on elementary level. I've heard that this practice goes on at many schools - both public and private. My guess is that this elementary child is practice with other elementary children that are in close vicinity to the upper school teams, but not practicing "with" them. I will say that is sounds utterly ludicrous to think that a 5th grader is practicing with high schoolers. I think the original story and later hub-bub here is driven by Knox Catholic's recent football prowess - although we can hardly call it prowess since they haven't really won it all, let alone the semi's. You want to see prowess - see Maryville and Alcoa. /thumb[1].gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":thumb:" border="0" alt="thumb[1].gif" />