Coaches Corner

To encourage and promote academic excellence, all students participating in extracurricular activities shall demonstrate satisfactory minimum progress in meeting the requirements of graduation by undertaking the prescribed course of study and meeting the standards of proficiency established by the District.

The requirement has two elements. To be eligible for participation, the student:

1. Must have earned an overall minimum 2.0 grade point average on a 4.0 grading scale during the preceding grading period; and
    
2. Must have passed five of six classes (no more than 1 F) during the preceding grading period. Students taking only the minimum number of classes must pass all of their classes to be eligible. 

According to the CIF, scholastic eligibility requires the student to pass the equivalent of at least 20 semester periods of work at the completion of the most recent grading period. Weighted grades are not used to calculate eligibility per the CIF Bylaws.

A grading period will constitute an eligibility period. The grade issued at the end of each grading period will be used to determine eligibility.

1. For purposes of determining eligibility, a grade of incomplete is computed as an “F” or failure until a letter grade is assigned. When the letter grade is determined, the student’s grade point average is required. Generally, incompletes are only assigned when a student had a long-term illness or after unforeseeable and unpreventable absence from school that prevented the student from completing the assigned work during the grading period. 
2. For eligibility purposes, once a letter grade is assigned, the grade may be changed only if the person assigning the grade determines that an error was made in computing the grade. If a student requests that a teacher reconsider a grade, the reconsideration must be based on work assigned, due, and completed prior to the end of the grading period. Work submitted or assigned after the end of the grading period may not be used to improve or diminish an assigned grade.
3. Schools declare at the beginning of the year the grading periods and eligibility declaration days that they will use. Eligibility will be declared after each school-wide grading period. 

A student becomes eligible or ineligible for athletic participation only when declared so by the site Athletic Administrator or site Athletic Director.

The District will follow CIF guidelines and procedures related to the eligibility of continuation/independent study school students returning to a comprehensive high school. Please check with the school’s Athletic Director or Administrator. 

If a student athlete does not meet the required 2.0 GPA with no more than one F grade on their most current progress report, they will automatically be entered into either, our athletic probation program or our athletic intervention program. Students will remain on probation or intervention until the next grading period, regardless of current grades showing in Q. Please see the chart below to determine which program pertains to your student.  

Academic Probation 

When an athlete becomes eligible for probation they must automatically apply for and take a probation period. Athletes do not have the choice as to when they will take their probation. Any athlete who quits his/her sport during a probation period will be deemed to have used their probation period for that school year and will be ineligible to apply for probation for the remainder of the school year. Probationary athletes must attend intervention class in order to remain eligible to compete with the team.

Academic Intervention

All athletes that are ineligible and do not qualify for probation will not be allowed to compete during the grading period in which they are declared ineligible. Non-probationary athletes must attend intervention class in order to remain eligible to practice with the team.

Students with 3 or more F’s are not allowed to tryout, practice or compete.

How it works:

• Student athletes on probation or intervention will receive a contract in their classroom during the week the progress report is published. The contract will include when and where the intervention class will take place and the eligibility period.
  • Sample Contracts
     
• Students are to report to the intervention class on the date and time that has been assigned to them. Completed contracts must be turned into the intervention teacher no later than the end of the first week of class.
   
• If students fail to attend the required class the first day, the student will be asked to the athletics office for a meeting.
   
• If the student continues to miss the required intervention class, the student will be removed from the team roster and will no longer be eligible to participate with the team.

Bella Vista High School is bound by California Interscholastic Federation residential eligibility rules and regulations. For additional information, please visit: https://www.cifsjs.org/transfers. You will need to complete this transfer form and submit it to the Athletic Director to get the CIF transfer process started. 

A student has residential eligibility upon initial enrollment in the ninth grade of any California Interscholastic Federation high school. A student retains residential eligibility if continuously enrolled in the CIF member high school of initial enrollment, transfers prior to the first day of the sophomore year or changes schools with a valid change in residence as defined in CIF Bylaws. Any ninth grade student who is transferring for a second time, or any tenth, eleventh or twelfth grade student, who transfers without a valid change of residence, will have limited eligibility for one year from the date of transfer. Any evidence of undue influence (recruiting), academic ineligibility at a previous school or disciplinary reasons for a transfer will impact eligibility at the new school.

The only exceptions to this rule will require documentation of a hardship which is defined as an “unforeseeable, unavoidable and uncorrectable act, condition or event which causes the imposition of a severe and non-athletic burden upon the student/family.” The section and state CIF will review the documentation for a waiver of this rule.

A transfer student shall contact the athletic director or administrator in charge of athletics to determine his/her eligibility status and to complete any necessary forms. No athlete shall participate in competition until all forms have cleared.

Any student whose address has been falsified to achieve residential eligibility will be ineligible in all interscholastic athletic competition for a period of one year from the date the infraction is verified.  

If a student and his/her parents move out of the attendance area but the student remains at the school, the student will maintain eligible but should immediately report his/her change of residence to the Attendance Office.