Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA)

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scoring format match Conferences, leagues, and/or participating schools, by mutual agreement prior to the start of a Contest, may modify the match format. WRESTLING 7-8 -9 A student is permitted to 2 22 wrestle up one weight classification above that for which the student’s actual stripped weight qualifies that student to wrestle. Length of bouts shall be four and one- half minutes divided into 3 periods of 1½ min. - 1½ min. - 1½ min. Conferences, leagues, and/or participating schools, by mutual agreement prior to the start of a Contest, may decide not to wrestle an overtime period in the event of a tie bout score. Section 7. Inter -District Championship Contests. There shall be no Inter -District Championship Contests for junior high/middle schools nor shall junior high/middle school students compete in Inter -District Championship Contests, except that tenth grade students of a four -year junior high/middle school may participate as representatives of their school in District and Inter -District Championship Contests. Further, seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students competing at the senior high school level shall, for purposes of this rule, be considered to be in the senior high school. ARTICLE XX AMENDMENTS Section 1. Majority Approval Necessary. Amendments to these Bylaws must be approved by a two- thirds majority of the PIAA Board of Directors physically present and voting. Section 2. Non -Substantive Amendments. The Executive Director is authorized to make technical, typographical, spelling, and grammatical changes to the PIAA Bylaws , Policies and Procedures, and/or Rules and Regulations in order to assure editorial continuity with substantive changes approved by the Board of Directors, and to delete provisions which have become obsolete. 202 6-202 7 BYLAWS 47 GLOSSARY ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL: A school established by the School Boards of one or more public school districts and approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, which enrolls high- risk students or students who previously dropped out. ASSIGNOR: An individual who (1) is engaged by a District or multiple PIAA member schools to assign officials for Contests for those schools, or (2) is engaged by, but is not employed by, a single PIAA member school to assign officials for Contests for that school. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: The individual having direct supervisory responsibility of interscholastic athletics at a school. ATHLETIC EVENT: PIAA member schools may participate in four types of Athletic Events: (1) Practice; (2) Inter -School Practice; (3) Scrimmage; or (4) Contest. Each of these terms is defined in this GLOSSARY. ATHLETIC PERSONNEL: A Coach, Athletic Director, or other employee or representative of a school's athletic department, Team(s), or sports program regardless of whether such person is in a paid or voluntary capacity. AUTHORIZED MEDICAL EXAMINER: A licensed physician of medicine or osteopathic medicine, a physician assistant certified, or either a certified registered nurse practitioner or a school nurse practitioner, who is under the supervision of a licensed physician of medicine or osteopathic m edicine. BOARD OF APPEAL: A panel composed of at least five- members of the Board of Directors convened pursuant to ARTICLE VII of the PIAA Constitution. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The Board of Directors of the Pe nnsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. BOOSTER CLUB: A school recognized or ganization that is formed to help support the efforts of a sports Team . Support is shown in many ways , including but not limited to, volunteering time, raising money, and contributing funds to better enhance the Team’s educational and/or athletic experience(s) . BOYS’ TEAM: A Team consisting of all boys. CALENDAR WEEK: Sunday through Saturday CHARTER SCHOOL: An independent public school, which is organized as a non- profit corporation, established and operated under a charter from the local School Board. COACH: A person (including volunteer high school alumni, professional athletes, and citizens of the community) engaged, either for an entire season or any part thereof, by a school to provide Coaching to a Team. COACHING: The provision of instruction, training, conditioning, and/or direction to a Team, for the purpose of developing athletic abilities and skills. COLLECTIVE: Individuals and/or companies cooperatively associate together to form an entity whose goal to provide NIL opportunities to student -athletes of one or more specific schools . COMBINATION TOURNAMENT: A Multiple School (Dual) Event in each of the NFHS weight classes in which individuals initially move from round to round as an interscholastic wrestling Team (pools) or advance based on Team results culminating in the wrestlers’ placement on an individual bracket with advancement from that point based on individual results. CONSIDERATION: Consideration consists of cash, items which are the equivalent of cash, items which are a representation of value, and items which have intrinsic value other than those permitted under Section 3 of ARTICLE II. CONTEST: An event in which individual students or Team represent their school in an athletic competition, which does not meet the definition of an Inter -School Practice or a Scrimmage. CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL: An independent public school, which is organized as a non- profit corporation, established and operated under a charter from the Department of Education, in which the school uses technology to provide a significant portion of its curriculum and to deliver a significant portion of instruction to its students through the Internet or other electronic means. DATE OF TRANSFER: The earliest of (1) the first day the student practices with a Team at a new school; (2) the student attends a class at a new school; (3) the student, through the student’s school, has requested a determination of eligibility at a new school and (4) the student enrolls or registers at a new school , and is no longer in attendance at their previous school . DISTRICT: An incorporated or unincorporated entity responsible for the administration of interscholastic athletics within the jurisdiction as provided for in ARTICLE V, Section 1, of the PIAA Constitution. DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST: A Contest conducted under the jurisdiction of a District Committee, which is necessary to determine an individual or Team champion in a sport. DISTRICT COMMITTEE: A (1) Board of Directors of an incorporated District or (2) a Committee whose composition is defined by ARTICLE IX, Section 1, of the PIAA Constitution and whose powers and duties are defined by ARTICLE IX, Section 3, of the PIAA Constitution. DISTRICT COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE: A person elected to the Board of Directors pursuant to ARTICLE VI, Section 2A, of the PIAA Constitution. EMANCIPATED STUDENT: A student living independently of parents or guardians. Whether a student is to be considered emancipated is a factual question to be determined by the student's school based upon the totality of circumstances. FEEDER SCHOOL: Elementary, junior high and/or middle schools, which are the primary sources of students for a particular senior high school, to be determined as follows: A. For a public school district having a single senior high school, those public junior high and/or middle schools located within the geographic boundaries of that public school district. B. For a public school district having multiple senior high schools, the district's policies governing assignment of students shall determine which public junior high and/or middle schools are Feeder Schools for its constituent senior high schools. Where t here is no policy of assignment or there is open enrollment, a public junior high and/or middle school is considered a Feeder School of a particular public senior high school if at least 25% of the students currently attending the public senior high school matriculated from that junior high school and/or middle school. C. For a Private senior high School, those Private elementary, junior high, and/or middle Schools which are identified by the Private senior high School as its Feeder School(s). No Private School may be a Feeder School for more than one Private senior high School, excepting that a Private junior high and/or middle School may be designated a Feeder School simultaneously for (1) an all male Private senior high School; (2) an all female Private senior high School; and/or (3) a co- educational Private senior high School. A Private School may be a Feeder School for additional all male, all female, and co- educational Private senior high Schools if an average of at least 25% of the alumni of the Feeder School, who enrolled in a Private senior high School over the m ost recent three year period, enrolled at each of the applicable Private senior high Schools. A Private School may be a Feeder School for a single- sex Private senior high School if an average of at least 25% of the alumni of the Feeder School who are of the same sex as those who attend that Private senior high school, and who enrolled in a Private senior high school over the most recent three year period, enrolled at the single- sex Private senior high School. GIRLS’ TEAM: A Team consisting of all girls. HEARING PANEL: A panel composed of at least five- members of a District Committee convened pursuant to ARTICLE IX of the PIAA Constitution. HOME -SCHOOLED STUDENT: A student participating in a home education program under Section 1327.1 of the Public School Code of 1949. INTER -DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST: A Contest conducted under the jurisdiction of the PIAA Office, which is necessary to determine an individual or Team champion in a sport. INTER -SCHOOL PRACTICE: All of the following elements must be present for a school to consider an Athletic Event with other schools as an Inter -School Practice: 1. The involved schools must agree, in advance of the Athletic Event, that the Athletic Event will be an Inter -School Practice rather than a Scrimmage or Contest. 2. No admission fee is charged. 3. The Teams participate only in conditioning exercises and/or limited and closely controlled drills. 4. The Teams are dressed in Practice uniforms only. 5 No score may be displayed or recorded. 6. The results of the Inter -School Practice shall not be counted as a part of the involved Teams' season win and loss records. BYLAWS 202 6-202 7 48 Any Athletic Event involving two or more schools must be considered a Scrimmage or Contest unless it meets all of the criteria listed above. JUNIOR VARSITY: A non- Varsity level of interscholastic competition in a sport sponsored by a senior high school. This level is to be distinguished from Varsity and junior high/middle school competition. MAGNET SCHOOL: A school established by one or more School Boards of public school districts designed to provide an academic focus on a particular theme (e.g. science/math, liberal arts, performing arts, gifted/talented, or foreign language). MIXED GENDER TEAM: A Team consisting of both boys and girls. Participation of both boys and girls on a Team in any Contest during a season causes the Team to be considered as a Mixed Gender Team for that season. MULTIPLE SCHOOL (DUAL) EVENT: Contests involving three (3) or more Teams of students representing their schools in interscholastic Team wrestling competition. NATURAL BREAK TRANSFER: A Transfer occurring when the student: 1. has completed the highest grade of a public junior high/middle school and is thereupon promoted by the public school district to a public senior high school in the same public school district; 2. has completed the highest grade of a public or Private junior high/middle School and has enrolled in a Private senior high School; 3. has enrolled in the lowest grade of a public senior high school, after having completed the previous grade at a Private junior high/middle School; and/or 4. has enrolled in the lowest grade of a Private senior high School, after having completed the previous grade at a public junior high/middle school. OPEN GYM: An event/activity whereby a PIAA -member school makes available the use of its gymnasium(s) and/or other athletic facilities to all students fully enrolled or otherwise eligible in their school district , and are no longer in att endance at their previous school. PARTICIPATION: A student participates in a sport if he or she is listed on the annual eligibility list for a sport or the student engages in a Practice, Inter -School Practice, Scrimmage or Contest, subject to ARTICLE XIX, Section 3. D. PERSONAL PRIVATE INFORMATION: Information about an individual, or an individual’s family, not generally known to the community, including but not limited to information relating to a person’s academic, health, disciplinary and delinquency history, financial condition, domestic circum stance, family and personal relationships, substance abuse, and/or potentially illegal conduct. PIAA: The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. PIAA OFFICE: The PIAA headquarters, currently located at 550 Gettysburg Road, P.O. Box 2008, Mechanicsburg, PA, 17055- 0708. POSTSEASON: The period of time between the last Regular Season Contest and the PIAA Championships deadline of a sport, inclusive of District and Inter -District Championship Contests. PRACTICE: An Athletic Event within the defined season established for each sport, involving one PIAA member school at which no other school is present. PRESEASON: The period of time between the first Practice day and the first Regular Season Contest day of a sport, inclusive of the first Scrimmage or Inter -School Practice day in that sport. PRINCIPAL: The individual responsible to PIAA, pursuant to ARTICLE X, LOCAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, Section 1, Responsibility of Principal, of the PIAA Constitution, for all matters pertaining to the interscholastic athletic relations of the Principal's school. In a public school, the Principal is the person holding a certificate issued by the Department of Education as a Principal and who is appointed by the School Board in accordance with Public School Code as Principal of the school. In a Private School, the Pr incipal is the person designated or appointed by the Board having jurisdiction over the school to have comprehensive responsibility for the day -to-day operations of the Private School. PRIVATE FAITH BASED SCHOOL: A Pen nsylvania nonpublic school that integrates religious beliefs into their educational programs and activities . PRIVATE SCHOOL: A Pennsylvania nonpublic school. PRIVATE SCHOOL'S SCHOOL DISTRICT: Each Private School, including each Private senior high School's Feeder Schools, shall have its own “school district.” Regardless of the location of its Feeder Schools, the geographic boundaries of the Private senior high School’s “school district” are c onsidered the boundaries of the public school district in which it is geographically located. The Private School's school district and the public school district are separate school districts. PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: Those students that are enrolled in the junior high and senior high schools of a public school district. RECEIVING SCHOOL: A school which receives Transfer students from any other school. RECREATION PROGRAM: Community based activity program open to all residents of a school district. REGULAR SEASON: The period of time between the first Regular Season Contest day and the last Regular Season Contest day of a sport, exclusive of District and Inter -District Championship Contests. REGIONAL PANEL: A panel composed of three- members from each of the contiguous Districts, pursuant to ARTICLE VIII of the PIAA Constitution. SCHOOL BOARD: The Board of Directors for a public school district. SCRIMMAGE: All of the following elements must be present for a school to consider an Athletic Event with other schools as a Scrimmage: 1. The involved schools must agree, in advance of the Athletic Event, that the Athletic Event will be a Scrimmage rather than an Inter -School Practice or Contest. 2. No admission fee is charged. 3. The head Coaches of the involved Teams may stop the activity at any time to provide instruction or to make substitutions. 4. There are no restrictions concerning the number of times a player/contestant enters or leaves the Scrimmage. 5. No score may be displayed or recorded. 6. The results of the Scrimmage may not be counted as a part of the involved Teams' season win and loss records. Any Athletic Event involving two or more schools must be considered an Inter -School Practice or Contest unless it meets all of the criteria listed above. SEASON: The period of time beginning with the first Practice day and ending with the final Regular Season Contest or Post -Season Contest, in that sport. A Season includes the Pre- Season, Regular Season and Post Season as defined within a sport. STUDENT WITH A DISABILITY: A student who has a physical or mental condition which substantially limits or prohibits participation in or access to an aspect of the student's school program. TEAM: A school -sponsored organization which consists of one or more students and which represent s that school in any form of interscholastic athletic competition, including Inter -School Practices, Scrimmages, and/or Contests . TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL: A school established by one or more School Boards of public school districts that provides either , (1) a total educational program and services for both specialized career and technical education and academic education, or (2) an educational program and services for only specialized career and technical education. TERMINATING SCHOOL: A school which ceases, primarily for budgetary reasons, to sponsor one or more of its Teams. TOURNAMENT: Competition involving Teams or individual students representing three (3) or more schools in which the Teams or individual students, as representatives of schools, are competing for a championship (first place) and other places. TRANSFER: Any situation in which a student seeks eligibility to participate in interscholastic athletics at a school other than the one at which the student was either enrolled or otherwise eligible. UNDUE INFLUENCE : A relationship existing between parties are such that one of the parties is in a position to dominate or influence the actions of the other and uses that position to obtain an unfair advantage. VARSITY: The highest level of interscholastic competition in a sport sponsored by a senior high school. This level is to be distinguished from Junior Varsity and junior high/middle school competition. 202 6-202 7 BYLAWS 49 NOTE: The following regulations, statutory provisions, and professional baseball agreement are not part of the Constitution and Bylaws . They are printed here solely for the convenience of persons using this Handboo k PENNSYLVANIA STATUTE REGARDING BULLYING AND HAZING To draw attention to the Pennsylvania Statute regarding bullying and hazing that schools are to adopt a hazing and bullying policy which includes any act committed against a student attempting to become a member of an athletic team, that is humiliating, intimidating, dem eaning or endangers the health and welfare of the student. Hazing includes the student’s active or passive participation in such acts and occurs regardless of the willingness to participate in these activities. PENNSYLVANIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION REGULATIONS Athletic Programs Regulation: (d) . . . Students of both sexes shall have equal access in interscholastic and intramural athletic programs to all of the follow ing. (1) School facilities. (2) Coaching and instruction. (3) Scheduling of Practice time and Contests. (4) Number of activities at each level of competition. (5) Equipment, supplies and services. (6) Funding appropriate to the sport. (e) School districts may sponsor coeducational Teams in interscholastic and intramural sports programs. (f) Interscholastic and intramural Teams playing contact sports may be separated by sex, but this subsection may not be used to exclude students of either sex from participating in a sport. PENNSYLVANIA LAW PROVISIONS AFFECTING ATHLETIC ELIGIBILITY OF STUDENTS USING ANABOLIC STEROIDS Pennsylvania Act 1989- 93 requires the School Board in every Pennsylvania school district to prescribe, adopt, and enforce rules and regulations to prohibit the use of anabolic steroids, except for a valid medical purpose, by any student involved in school -related athletics. The Act also requires the School Board to prescribe the following minimum penalties for any student found in violation of the rules and regulations adopted by the School Board: 1. For a first violation, suspension from school athletics for the remainder of the season. 2. For a second violation, suspension from school athletics for the remainder of the season and for the following season. 3. For a third violation, permanent suspension from school athletics. A student who has been suspended for violation of the School Board regulations shall not be eligible to resume participation in school athletics unless there has been a medical determination that no residual evidence of steroids exists. The penalties which the law requires School Boards to adopt are minimum penalties. More severe penalties may be adopted by i ndividual school districts, and the actual penalties may therefore vary from school district to school district. AGREEMENT BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL AND THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF STATE HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS (NFHS) MAJOR- MINOR LEAGUE RULE 3 (h) (H) High School Players. 1. No student of a high school shall be signed to a contract by a Major or Minor League club during the period the student is el igible for participation in high school athletics. In any instance where such eligibility has expired prior to the student’s gradu ation from high school (a) because of the student’s age; or (b) because the student has completed the maximum number of semesters of attendance, the student may thereafter be signed to a contract w hich does not obligate the student to report for service pr ior to graduation of the class with which the student originally entered high school, i.e., until eight semesters after the s tudent’s original entry into the ninth grade. 2. A student who drops out of high school prior to expiration of the student’s athletic eligibility and continues to remain out for at least one year may thereafter be signed to a contract for immediate service provided the student’s withdrawal from high sch ool was not suggested, procured, or otherwise influenced by the club contracting with the student, or by any official or employee of such club or of any of its affiliates. 3. Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting any Major or Minor League club, its officers, agents, or employees from talk ing to any high school student at any time concerning a career in professional baseball and discussing the merits of the student’s contracting, when eligible therefore, with any particular club. 4. “Tryouts” to which students may be invited may be conducted during the school year, provided that (1) no student shall be per mitted to participate in any such tryout unless the Principal of the student’s high school, if not employed by a Major or Minor Lea gue club, shall have approved such participation in writing, and (2) provided further, that any such tryout must be limited to not more than five high school students. 5. Any contract made in violation of this rule shall be declared null and void and the offending club (and any club owned by or affiliated with such club) shall be prohibited from signing such player for a period of three years from the date of declaration of voidance of such contract. In addition, such club shall be fined $500, by the Commissioner in the case of a Major League club, or by the President of the National Association in the case of a Minor League club, and the official, scout, or employee of the offending club who participated in the violation shall be subject to such penalty as the Commissioner or the President of the National Association, as the case may be, shall impose. 6. This rule shall apply to all high school students in the (50) states of the United States of America, and shall not apply to high school students attending high schools outside the said 50 states of the United States of America. PIAA APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “PIAA Application for School Membership.” Applic ation for membership in PIAA shall be made by submitting this application to the District Committee of the PIAA District in which t he school is geographically located. Each PIAA Application for School Membership shall be signed by the Principal and shall be accompanied by the annual dues and a res olution of approval executed by the School Board or the Board having jurisdiction over t he applicant school. The resolution shall state that, in all matters pertaining to interscholastic athletic activities, the school shall be governed by the Constitution, Bylaws , Policies and Procedures, and Rules and Regulations of PIAA. Membership in PIAA becomes effective the next following July 1st after the school’s application receives the approval of the PIAA Board of Directors. SUPPLEMENT TO PIAA APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP INVOLVING PIAA MEMBER PRIVATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “Supplement to PIAA Application for School Member ship Involving PIAA Member Private Senior High Schools.” An application for a Private junior high/middle School membership incorporating more than one school shall be made in writing to the District Committee of the PIAA District in which the Private senior high School houses its 9th grade s tudents. Each application for such a Private junior high/middle School membership shall be si gned by the Principal of the member Private senior high School and (a) in the case of Catholic schools under Archdiocesan or Diocesan jurisdiction, by the Archdiocesan or Diocesan Superintendent of Schools, or ( b) in the case of other Private senior high S chools, by the Superintendent or by the President of the Board having jurisdiction over the member Private senior high School . The Private junior high/middle School membership in PIAA shall become effective the next following July 1st after the Private junior high/middle School’s application receives the approval of the PIAA Board of Directors. BYLAWS 202 6-202 7 50 PIAA COMPREHENSIVE INITIAL PRE -PARTICIPATION PHYSICAL EVALUATION (CIPPE) FORM In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “PIAA Comprehensive Initial Pre- Participation Physical Evaluation (CIPPE) Form.” INITIAL EVALUATION: Prior to any student participating in Practices, Inter -School Practices, Scrimmages, and/or Contests, at any PIAA member school in any school year, the student is required to (1) complete a Comprehensive Initial Pre- Participation Physical Evaluation (CIPP E); and (2) have the appropriate person(s) complete the first six Sections of the CIPPE Form. Upon completion of Sections 1 and 2 by the parent/guardian; Sections 3, 4, and 5 by the student and parent/guardian; and Section 6 by an Authorized Medical Exami ner (AME), those Sections must be turned in to the Principal, or the Principal’s designee, of the student's school for retention by the school. The CIPPE may not be performed earlier than May 1st and shall be effective, regardless of when performed during a school year, until the next April 30th. SUBSEQUENT SPORT(S) IN THE SAME SCHOOL YEAR: Following completion of a CIPPE, the same student seeking to participate in Practices, Inter -School Practices, Scrimmages, and/or Contests in subsequent sport(s) in the same school year, must complete Section 8 of this form and must turn in that Section to the Principal, or Principal’s designee, of his or her school. The Principal, or the Principal’s designee, will then determine whether Section 9 need be completed. CONTRACT FOR CONTESTS UNDER PIAA RULES In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “Contract for Contests Under PIAA Rules.” Except where scheduling is done by or pursuant to the authority of the District Committee, all schools shall enter into either paper or electronic contracts for all Contests in which they participate. All contracts must be on the official contract form entitled “Contract for Contests Under PIAA Rules”, or an equivalent electronic version thereof. SUPPLEMENT TO CONTRACT FOR CONTESTS UNDER PIAA RULES INVOLVING NON- PIAA MEMBER SCHOOLS In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “Supplement to Contract for Contests Under PIAA R ules Involving Non- PIAA Member Schools.” Except where scheduling is done by or pursuant to the authority of the District Committee, all schools shall enter into either paper or electronic contracts for all Contests in which they participate. All contracts must be on the official contract form enti tled “Contract for Contests Under PIAA Rules”, or an equivalent electronic version ther eof. Where the opponent is not a member of PIAA, the school shall also enter into a supplement to either a paper or an electronic contract on the official form entitled “Supplement to Contract for Contests Under PIAA Rules Involving Non- PIAA Member School s”, or an equivalent electronic version thereof. CONTRACT FOR OFFICIALS UNDER PIAA RULES In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “Contract for Officials Under PIAA Rules.” PIAA member schools should enter into written (paper or electronic) contracts with the officials retained by the schools or assigned by an assignor to officiate regular season contests. Registered sports officials are independent contractors and therefore, are NOT employees of PIAA, the school, or the assignor. ASSIGNOR AGREEMENT In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “Assignor Agreement.” PIAA member schools and or ganized groups of member schools, which utilize the services of an assignor, are encouraged to enter into a written agreement with the assignor specifying the relationship with the assignor and the responsibilities of the assignor. The agreement can be modified to meet the specific circumstances as needed. REPORT OF ALLEGED VIOLATION(S) OF SEASON AND/OR OUT -OF -SEASON RULES AND REGULATIONS FORM In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “Report of Alleged Violation(s) of Season and/or Out -of-Season Rules and Regulations Form.” Any person may report a season and/or out -of-season violation on that Form. The Form m ust be signed by the complainant. Where the complainant is a PIAA member school, the Form must be signed by the Principal or Athletic Director. The form must be submitted to the PIAA District Committee having jurisdiction over the PIAA member school allegedly committing the violation(s). PIAA APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF INVITATIONAL AND/OR TOURNAMENT In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “PIAA Application for Approval of Invitational and/or Tournament”. PIAA APPLICATION FOR SANCTION OF BORDERING STATE(S) ATHLETIC EVENT In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “PIAA Application for Sanction of Bordering State(s) Athletic Event”. 2026- 2027 PIAA ORDER FORM In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official PIAA form entitled “ 2026 -2027 PIAA Order Form.” NATIONAL FEDERATION OF STATE HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS (NFHS) APPLICATION FOR SANCTION OF INTERSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL ATHLETIC EVENTS SANCTIONING PROCEDURES In the Forms Section of the PIAA Handbook is an official NFHS form entitled “NFHS Application for Sanction of Interstate and International Athletic Events Sanctioning Procedures”. The following forms must be submitted through the PIAA Document Portal. Schools can access the PIAA portal by using their school access code. • PIAA Member School Request for Cooperative Sponsorship of a Sport • PIAA Member School Request for Decision on Athletic Eligibility • PIAA Member School Athletic Transfer Waiver Request • PIAA Member School Postseason Waiver Request • PIAA Member School Request for Modification of the Uniform • PIAA Member School Request for the Use of a Motorized Golf Cart • PIAA Member School Request For Accommodations Due to Disabilities • PIAA Foreign Exchange Student / International Student Eligibility Agreement