TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Elements of Athletic Eligibility
  • NJ Academic Eligibility
  • Local Eligibility
  • Medical Eligibility
  • Form Completion
  • Athletic Status: Medical Status from Injury, Illness, etc.
• Computing NJ State Eligibility

Elements of Athletic Eligibility

Athletic eligibility is composed of 

• NJ State Academic Eligibility
• Local Eligibility 
• Medical Eligibility
• Form Completion
• Athletic Status

NJ Academic Eligibility

Genesis includes NJ State athletic eligibility rules.   

This eligibility, along with the "Local Eligibility" rules and restrictions, appears on the students' Athletics>Sports Eligibility screen:

No setup is required for this screen:  the NJ eligibility rules are built into the system.  

Local Eligibility

Medical Eligibility

Medical eligibility is controlled by three items:

• School Year Medical Eligibility:
  • Whether or not the student has an update-to-date Physical on file with a status of "Completed"
  • The "medical eligibility" option selected for the student:

• Seasonal Medical Eligibility - This is controlled by whether or not the student has an uptodate Health History form on file if one is required:
  • If it has been more than 90 days since either the most recent Physical Exam has been submitted.
  • If a previous Health History form was submitted in the current school year and it has been more than 90 days since that form was submitted.

Form Completion

All of the required athletic-related forms must have been completed - given a status of "Completed".

The forms are found on the student's Student Data>Modify Student>Athletics>Exams and Participation screen:

The Steroid Release, Concussion Release, Sudden Cardiac Release, Opioid Release and Opioid Video Release are State of NJ required forms, the additional five forms at the bottom of the list are all locally defined and specified.

Required forms can be configured on the Athletics>Setup>Athletic Release Forms screen.

Athletic Status: Medical Status from Injury, Illness, etc.

This is more of a participation status than a real measure of eligibility, but we include it here because it does gate 'eligibility to play' on a day-to-day basis.  

The nurse has the capability to create an "Athletic Status Record" for each student.

These specify the period of time the student cannot participate in athletics or physical education.

An "athletic status" icon appears in the student's list of icons. The tooltip gives the reason shared by the nurse.

If clicked, the 'athletic status icon' will popup the reason information in a dialog box.

The reason also appears in bold in the list of "Reasons student cannot participate in a sport" display panel:

Computing NJ State Eligibility

The NJ Status athletic eligibility rules are built into the Genesis Student Information System and the student's "NJ Athletic Eligibility" can be computed by Genesis.  

The tool to mass calculate NJ State Eligibility is currently found on the Grading>Sports Eligibility>Calculate Eligibility screen:

Students with potential issues are listed on the screen.  (The illustration is from the Genesis Demo).

Individual NJ State Eligibility is displayed on the students' Student Data>Modify Student>Athletics->Sports Eligibility screen: 

The student's NJ Eligibility is specified by the top four elements for each season.  

They can be exempted from any of these by using the four checkboxes below.

NJ State eligibility can be calculated for the individual student using the tools that appear below the form.

Student must pass NJ Eligibility tests to be able to participate in team sports.

Eligibility can also be effected by the students grade level.

Students in grades 10-12 would be expected to have 30 credits in the previous school year to be credit eligible for FALL, and 15 credits in the first semester for SPRING.

For 9th grade students though, the students would not necessarily have 30 credits in a previous year for the Fall eligibility since they were previously in a middle school.

So long as the students previous grade is 08, the system would not include them in the insufficient credit rule when the Fall eligibility is calculated.

There is however, one exception to this. When calculating the Fall Eligibility for students, if their previous school was PREREG and previous grade level 09, and they are currently in a high school with a current grade of 09, the system will calculate them as if their previous grade level was 08. This is to prevent the system from seeing those students as retained from the previous year and marking the ineligible due to insufficient credit.