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SoCal High School & Prep Report

"Free Agent" Transfers: More On The
Rules of Transferring--(January 27, 1998)

As we noted in the last article on "Free Agent Tranfers" in High School sports, today's edition of the Daily Breeze, a Westside Los Angeles paper covering the entire South Bay, and the other beach communities from Torrance and Redondo on up to Malibu and Pacific Palisades and as far east as Beverly Hills, published a very important and timely article on the prevalence of high school transfers for athletic reasons, and what such transferring portends for the present and the future of prep and high school athletics here in SoCal. The Daily Breeze also published a "companion" piece today by Eric Stephens on the "rules" of transferring, which although brief, sheds some light on a few of the more common rules imposed on studen-athletes who transfer from one school to another. Oh yes, and as with the prior article, we won't repeat our mantra on "fair use", but it should suffice to say, the same is incorporated herein by this reference as though set forth at length herein (legal gobbledy-gook for "hey--we're not making any money off this, so don't sue us". And we should know legal gobbledy-gook when we see it, because SoCalHoops is manned--or "peopled"--- by lawyers).

Transfer Rules Determined By District

By Eric Stephens

DAILY BREEZE STAFF WRITER

Often, the most common rule for a student-athlete to transfer schools is that he or she must maintain residence with a family member or guardian in the new school's attendance area.

But there are other ways students change schools.

In the CIF Southern Section, students can transfer from one school district to another only if the receiving school district approves the transfer. Some districts, like Torrance Unified, do not accept transfers unless the student lives within the district's attendance boundaries.

One of the more common means of transferring in the transferring in the L.A. City Section is through intra-district and inter-district permits under an open enrollment policy implemented by the L.A. Unified School District to relieve overcrowding.

Any student can transfer to another school, providing only one transfer is made during the student's high school career, that it is completed during the first 15 school days of the academic year at the new school and that athletic performance was not consided in accepting the transfer by the new school.

If a student transfers from any public or private school district in California for disciplinary reasons, he or she is immediately ineligible from any CIF competition for one year following the date of the transfer.

Any student-athlete from a public school can transfer to any private school without losing athletic eligibility.