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Switching Schools

Activities Association Rules Prohibit Transfers Solely For Athletics

By Nathan Allen, Dan Craft

Posted: July 24, 2011 at 5:41 a.m.

Staff Photo ANTHONY REYES Shiloh Christian senior guard Samuel Harvill (53) dashes toward the Pulaski Robinson ball carrier during the first half Friday Dec. 3, 2010 at Champions Stadium in Springdale.

By Anthony Reyes
 Staff Photo ANTHONY REYES Shiloh Christian senior guard Samuel Harvill (53) dashes toward the Pulaski Robinson ball carrier during the first half Friday Dec. 3, 2010 at Champions Stadium in Springdale.

High school students change schools each year for many reasons, but Arkansas Activities Association rules prohibit transfers solely for athletics. So when standout players show up each fall in new colors practicing with new teams, talk ensues about how and why they switched.

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The Arkansas Activities Association does not recognize two legal homes — which the handbook refers to as domiciles — for high school athletes.

“We don’t use the term ‘residence’ anymore, we use domicile because you can only write off taxes on one domicile by the Internal Revenue Service,” said Lance Taylor, association executive director. “You simply can’t live in two places.”

If the student-athletes parents are divorced, the athlete is considered to live with whichever parent has primary custody.

In the handbook, a move from one home to another includes:

• The original domicile is to be abandoned. It can either be sold, in the process of being sold or rented to a nonfamily member on a long-term lease of at least one year.

• The domicile cannot be used as a domicile by any member of the family.

• The parent(s) must change their mailing address and assess property in the new district, register to vote there and change all records — utilities, car registrations, property insurance, driver’s license information — to the new address, and stop mail delivery at the previous address.

Source: Arkansas Activities Association

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