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Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
GHSA sets new rules for families of high school athletes who transfer
GHSA sets new rules for families of high school athletes who transfer The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) is updating its transfer rule. The change will affect student athletes who move during high school. There will now be a lot more documents needed to show that the family has actually moved. Advertisement The change is an attempt to prevent students from moving to different schools just to play on a different team. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] If a student transfers, the family needs to provide a driver's license with the updated address, documents that show that the entire family has moved, proof that the lease has ended or their house is for sale, and they need to provide a change of address to their employer, the U.S. post office, and other government agencies. If those requirements aren't met, the student athlete would have to sit out one year. Families can appeal if the student is denied eligibility. Advertisement The rule update hasn't been officially approved yet. GHSA will vote on the update in early July. TRENDING STORIES: [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Washington Post
08-06-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Joshua Kai-Smith, Josh Johnson get historic at VHSL outdoor track meet
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Records set by two of Virginia's most celebrated track athletes fell and the South County girls turned in a complete performance at the Class 6 outdoor track and field championships at John B. Todd Stadium. In the 110-meter hurdles Saturday, Gar-Field's Joshua Kai-Smith won in 13.39 seconds to break the Class 6 state meet record of 13.61 set by Grant Holloway of Grassfield in 2014. Holloway won the gold medal in that race, his specialty, at last summer's Paris Olympics. 'I'm a little dehydrated,' Kai-Smith said after pulling up short with a leg cramp and finishing eighth in the 100-meter dash about 20 minutes later. Asked about his expectations with a year of high school still to go, his message was simple: 'Expect more.' Another junior, Josh Johnson of Freedom (South Riding), won the 100, besting the record of former T.C. Williams (now Alexandria City) speedster and 2024 Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles. Johnson's time of 10.39 seconds eclipsed Lyles's mark of 10.47 set in 2015. 'I'm just blessed — that's it,' an exhausted Johnson said after his race. Hours later, he came back to win the 200 in 21.27. On the girls' side, senior Mia Mason racked up 34 points on her own to lead South County to the team title. The Stallions dominated the Class 6 indoor championship this past winter after finishing second at last year's outdoor meet. Mason won the 100 meters (11.66) and placed second in the 200, the 100-meter hurdles and the long jump as South County tallied 96 points to cruise past runner-up Colgan, which had 51. West Springfield was third with 41. 'I love my team and am grateful that we did our very best and competed well,' Mason said. Teammate Julia Wallace won the 400 in 55.23 seconds, and the 4x100-meter relay squad prevailed, too (46.41). West Springfield paced the D.C. area's boys' teams in Class 6. Stafford's Colonial Forge prevailed with 52 points, but the Spartans — whose only individual winner was Michael Murray in the pole vault (15 feet) — grabbed the runner-up spot with 46 points. Patriot, South Lakes and South County tied for third with 39. Chantilly won three titles in the field events. Jacqueline Bullock took the pole vault with a 12-foot effort. Apria Smith captured the title in the triple jump (40-10¼). Christopher Hwang won the discus (190-7) and was second in the shot put. Gainesville swept the 3,200-meter runs behind Trent Daniels (9:20.85) and Caroline Tribett (10:29.17). Daniels also won the 1,600 in 4:10.72. West Springfield swept the 4x800 relays, with the boys' foursome of Kyler Roberts, Gavin Smith, Edison Dean and Jack Pritchard clocking a 7:49.24. The girls' team of Marie Campbell, Rickelle Bush, Allyson Hall and Allie Horner finished in 9:00.71. Other double winners: Caroline Elliott of South Lakes, who won the 1,600 (4:51.45) and the 800 (2:08.64), and Colgan's Elizabeth Yeboah-Kodie, who won the long jump (20-0) and the 100-meter hurdles (13.61). Colgan teammate Lauryn Robertson won the 200 in 24.28. Harry Economon of Robinson (47.15 in the 400) and Henry Birge of Patriot (1:53.83 in the 800) were the area's other Class 6 individual winners. Economon was part of Robinson's winning 4x400 relay (3:17.60) In Class 5, Koran Rucker of Stone Bridge won the boys' shot put (60-9) and discus (168-3). Ava Jayaraman of Independence won the girls' shot put with a heave of 40-7¾. Megan Greenlund of Briar Woods was victorious in the girls' 3,200 in 11:03.00. Thomas Rae of Riverside won the boys' 1,600 in 4:18.71. Potomac Falls' Carter Dunstan, Jack Manfredi, Nathan Short and Kaiden Richardson won the 4x400 relay in 3:17.92.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Mason boys tennis wins 2025 DI OTCA team championship; Indian Hill on deck for DII
One day after Greg Bernadsky won the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division I tennis singles championship, his team won the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association's team title. The Comets defeated University School 3-0 in the finals and New Albany 3-2 in the semifinals. Advertisement Bernadsky topped Vishwum Kapadia 6-1, 6-0; Daniel Tonkal defeated Lucas Weidenbecher 6-3, 6-3; and Shreyas Mantha defeated Charlie Christopherson, 6-0, 6-2, according to Scott Gerber from The doubles court matches did not finish. The Mason Comets boys tennis team won the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association 2025 state team competition. In a tight match against New Albany, Bernadsky won 6-1, 6-4 at first singles and both doubles teams won, Tonkal and Janek Teply (6-1, 6-1) and Aron Dornhecker and Mantha (7-5, 6-0) Also playing in the Division II team finals will be Indian Hill, after the Braves beat Columbus Academy 3-2 in the semifinals on the strength of first and second singles wins by Neelan Gandhi and Gareth Kurowski and the first doubles team of Michael Ryu and Jeremy Starczynowski. The Enquirer will update this story with Indian Hill's results. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati high school tennis teams in 2025 OTCA team tournament
Washington Post
31-05-2025
- General
- Washington Post
California track-and-field championships draw limited protest over trans student's participation
CLOVIS, Calif. — California's high school track-and-field state finals will award one extra medal Saturday in events where a transgender athlete places in the top three, a rule change that may be the first of its kind nationally by a high school sports governing body. The new California Interscholastic Federation policy was written in response to the success of high school junior AB Hernandez, a trans student who competes in the girls high jump, long jump and triple jump. She led in all three events after preliminaries Friday. The CIF said earlier this week it would let an additional student compete and medal in the events where Hernandez qualified.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
High school football will never be the same in era of transfers, NIL money
When Charles Dickens began his 1859 novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' with the legendary line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,' who knew that it would aptly describe the state of amateur football in 2025? From college athletics to high school athletics, if you're a parent, coach, athlete or fan, you have plenty of stories to tell. Take notes, because there's so much material you'll be able to write a book, launch a podcast or participate in court cases still to be decided. Advertisement 'It's all crazy,' said future Hall of Fame football coach Matt Logan of Corona Centennial. Football isn't in a crisis but it is in a black hole with stakeholders seeking an escape path. With final rules still not adopted in how name, image and likeness is supposed to work and college programs not only paying their own athletes but high school recruits, too, everyone is adjusting on the fly. Parents trying to navigate the changes are hiring agents, who are showing up to high school camps trying to find clients. There's the college transfer portal and something similar in high school that saw more than 17,000 students switch schools in California last year. Until NIL rules are figured out, it's roll your eyes and don't be surprised at anything. Advertisement Read more: High school football transfers tracker: Which top players are switching schools? Some elite high school players have been reclassifying their graduation years to take advantage of money opportunities. And that's after parents held them back entering high school to be bigger, stronger and faster as a 16-year-old freshman. It's all legal and even logical but the changing landscape is riddled with pros and cons and bad actors. One big concern in high school sports is that parents might be too focused on scholarships for their kids and earning NIL money while forgetting the real reason people play sports — for the love of the game. Advertisement 'For me, the whole value in sports has been degenerated,' Logan said. 'You don't play sports to get a scholarship. You play to learn how to lead, how to take orders, how to be a good teammate, how to work together. This could be the only chance to have fun, play with their friends, have a great experience.' There have been football scandals in recent years — twice at Narbonne High, which had City Section championships taken away in 2019 and 2024 for using ineligible players. Now the football community is focused on what the Southern Section intends to do this fall about Bishop Montgomery, which supposedly has numerous transfer students (some from Narbonne) and is so confident it'll 'll be declared eligible that a trip to Hawaii and a nonleague game against powerful Mater Dei have been scheduled. Every week, coaches have to decide how to deal with players and parents who have little patience and many options. It's a balancing act, and for the elite of the elite, coaches can't even count on juniors returning as seniors because of opportunities to skip ahead to college. 'I understand why they are doing it. They have my full support,' said Sierra Canyon coach Jon Ellinghouse, who's losing star defensive lineman Richard Wesley to Oregon a year early after he reclassified to the class of 2026. Advertisement Ellinghouse is embracing the idea his job is to "put them into positions to have life-changing opportunities." There are many different paths to success and failure. Remember how LaVar Ball didn't care that his youngest son, LaMelo, was 13 years old playing summer basketball as a freshman for Chino Hills. He threw him in against older players and the rest is history. He averaged 25.2 points this season for the Charlotte Hornets as a 23-year-old in his fifth NBA season. There are others who were 19-year-old seniors in high school, stopped developing, kept switching schools and will probably blame their coaches for not making the pros when the truth is it's difficult to become a professional athlete. It is the best of times with all kinds of money to be given out for being a good athlete. It is the worst of times because many of the treasured lessons from playing amateur sports no longer receive priority treatment. What happened to the importance of getting a college degree? Advertisement It will take someone with magical ideas to return a balance to the amateur sports world. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
