TSSAA Rule....

[carolina232]

If you pay tuition to a school do you have to sit out the first year you attend there?

[tiger1616]

if you played a major sport the previous year at the school you attended you have to sit out a year to your last day of participation at any school.

[ELA]

If you pay tuition to a school do you have to sit out the first year you attend there?

If you are a 10th grader with an athletic record, yes! If you are a 9th grader entering the 9th grade at your school for the first time, NO.

[fireplug]

I know of a few that change schools and used academics as the reason and they got to play their first season and one tranferred their junior year from McMinn to Baylor.

[TheGreatLineJudge]

It's not a matter of if you pay tuition or not. It's a normal eligibility issue. It all depends on if you...

 

1) have made a significant change of address as to justify transfer to a new school, regardless of if you came from a public/private to the other.

 

2) played sports at your previous school.

 

 

If you will go to the TSSAA Handbook, you will find eligibility rules for transfer students starting about halfway down Page 15. General eligibility rules start on Page 12. They also have an excellent Frequently Asked Questions section starting at Page 33, but the stuff we would be interested in is a few pages later.

 

The TSSAA Handbook is an excellent source for answering many questions posed both on and off the CoachT site. I recommend reading it whenever you have some free time on your hands.