[The Guru]

[quote author=Youngerthandirt link=topic=16834.msg211826#msg211826 date=1142441172]
Just a thought about the 8th grader from Dorton being pulled up from someone who has no interst in Shelby Valley basketball.....If any of the other 8th graders from either of the two feeder schools were held back during their 7th or 8th grade seasons, they can't play varsity sports until they are freshmen. That's a KHSAA rule, if they were held back in say the 4th grade, they can play, but a kid held back in the 7th grade for two season and plays middle school sports both years, can't play varsity until he's a freshman.

Maybe that's why some of the other kids didn't get pulled up.
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Actually, I believe that the rule reads that any student repeating any grade before entering the ninth gradeis not eligible to play varsity sports, during the second year of repeating a grade. In other words, if a kid is held back in the 8th grade, then their second year as an eighth grader, they can't play ANY High School sport. this includes freshmen teams, jr. varsity, or varsity. but let's say a kid repeats the 7th grade. Then when he is an 8th grader, he may play in any High School sport.
This is how it was explained to me, in a very indepth conversation with them, as I had contemplated on holding my own son back last year.