Southern Section commissioner warns about transfer

During his commissioner’s deal with on Thursday in Long Beach at the Southern Section Council assembly, Mike West said his workplace has change into “very adept at identifying” fraudulent transfer data submitted by dad and mom and colleges in a message explaining why there was an increase in declaring athletes ineligible for a two-year period for violation of CIF bylaw 202.

“We’ve had a real influx of fraudulent paperwork,” West said. “It’s been significant and very disheartening.”

Bishop Montgomery and Long Beach Millikan have been among the faculties where soccer athletes had been declared ineligible for two years after offering false paperwork data.

Addressing directors and athletic administrators, West said, “Talk to your athletes and parents when they come in for a valid change of residence. It’s OK to question it and OK to say no to a valid change of residence.”

Before the assembly, West was requested if he might say something to educate dad and mom going through the transfer course of. “Don’t turn in fraudulent paperwork in order to gain eligibility,” he said.

It’s not just the Southern Section discovering methods to detect false data. It’s also occurring in Northern Calfornia, according to Brian Seymour, affiliate govt director of the CIF.

The real take a look at for whether or not colleges and dad and mom alter to what has been going down during the soccer season comes when paperwork begins to arrive for basketball transfers next month.

Under CIF transfer guidelines, you could have a one-time alternative to have a sit-out period following a transfer over 4 years or the scholar must change residences with your entire household to be eligibile immediately.