[zaga_fan]

“Any student who has been enrolled in grades nine (9) through twelve (12) and has participated in any varsity contest in any sport at any school while maintaining permanent residence in the United States or a United States territory following enrollment in grade nine (9) and who then transfers schools shall be ineligible for interscholastic athletics at any level in any sport for one year from the date of last participation in varsity interscholastic athletics.”

This.

The rule goes on to list a few exceptions.

So either the kid is one of the exceptions (change of residence, parents divorced, change of custody, etc.), or the courts have blocked the KHSAA from preventing him to play. I doubt the ladder because that takes too much time.

Perry's coaching staff would be very negligent to just put a player on the floor who transferred in without dotting their i's and crossing their t's.